Marjorie Maddox
Poetry Moment HostMarjorie Maddox is the host of WPSU's Poetry Moment for the 2023-24 season. She has been a professor of English and creative writing since 1990 at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University. Maddox has published 14 collections of poetry, most recently—Begin with a Question and the ekphrastic collaborations Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For, with photographer Karen Elias, and In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind with her artist daughter Anna Lee Hafer and others. In addition, she has published a short story collection, four children’s books, and, with Jerry Wemple, the anthologies Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and the forthcoming Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (PSU Press).
Maddox is the great grandniece of Branch Rickey, the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to Major League Baseball. She lives with her husband in Williamsport, where they raised their two children, and where she twice served as visiting author for the Little League World Series. You can find out more about Marjorie Maddox on her website. (Photo by Melanie Rae.)
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April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, WPSU held its second Student Poetry Writing Contest. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade were encouraged to write poems and send them into the station. -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Ann E. Michael and her poem 'Everyday Syntax.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Airea D. Matthews and her poem 'ars poetica, 2019.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Cee Williams and his poem 'The catcher and the sighs.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Steve Myers and his poem 'Runoff.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Shanna Powlus Wheeler and her poem 'Easter Greeting.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Jeff Oaks and his poem 'How We Lived.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Vernita Hall and her poem 'Graphic, In Case.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Ann Dyer Stuart and her poem 'What Girls Learn.' -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Dr. Cherise Pollard and her poem 'Steel Will, 1937.'
