Marjorie Maddox is professor of English at Lock Haven University and the author of thirteen collections of poetry–most recently Begin with a Question and Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For–What She Was Saying (stories), and 4 children’s books. In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind is forthcoming in 2023.
I. Alfred Berg The eldest at fourteen, I took his place: Heinrich Steinberger, suddenly ill, too sick to flee Vienna. He did not survive the Holocaust. Heinrich Steinberger, suddenly ill— of the fifty chosen, the only one to stay. He did not survive the Holocaust. With my sister, I, instead, boarded the ship, among the […]
Marjorie Maddox imagines eschatology as a long, hard road.
In this poem, Marjorie Maddox considers the potential for salvation in catastrophe when we open our eyes to change.
In this short story, Marjorie Maddox provides an insightful and poetic look into the lives of people with masochistic pathologies, people who when “eating an apple [bite] right into the bruise” and can’t help but perpetuate relational and psychological self-harm.
Newspaper headline Somerset, PA This is the popular miracle to which we bow down, a gasp in our throats, thousands ready to weep, disbelief exhaling relief and not that dark mine of tragedy that keeps collapsing around this tunnel of a country. But there are other wonders too: untelevised, deeper down, the tap-tap-tapping left between […]