February 17, 2020 / Creative Writing
Marjorie Maddox imagines eschatology as a long, hard road.
Marjorie Maddox
February 17, 2020 / Creative Writing
February 17, 2020 / Creative Writing
Author Archive
Marjorie Maddox
Marjorie Maddox is a professor of English at Lock Haven University and an assistant editor at Presence. She has published eleven collections of poetry, including True, False, None of the Above, which was published in the Poiema Poetry Series and was an Illumination Book Award Medalist; Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation, which won the Yellowglen Prize; and Perpendicular As I, which won the Sandstone Book Award. She also published the short story collection What She Was Saying, four children’s books, a contemporary poetry anthology, and over 550 stories, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies. Please see www.marjoriemaddox.com. The cover image for this poem, Asphalt Heart, is used with permission by the photographer and activist Karen Elias.
Marjorie Maddox
October 21, 2008 / Creative Writing
October 21, 2008 / Creative Writing
In this poem, Marjorie Maddox considers the potential for salvation in catastrophe when we open our eyes to change.
Marjorie Maddox
November 30, 2007 / Creative Writing
November 30, 2007 / Creative Writing
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.
Marjorie Maddox
October 15, 2007 / Creative Writing
October 15, 2007 / Creative Writing
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