poetry

“Pick a poem you’d like to get to know,” dares Marjorie Maddox in her latest educational collection titled “Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems…

How do we love the land, even as we participate in doing damage to it? How do we honor those who have come before us, even as we acknowledge the…

I work at the Pennsylvania Center for the Book and a new book of poetry by local author Marjorie Maddox came across my desk recently. The title…

“What does a landscape dream of in its unsettled dreams?”Todd Davis’s newest collection of poems, titled “Native Species,” opens with this question. The…

Erin Murphy, an English professor at Penn State Altoona, won the Brick Road Poetry Prize for her most recent poetry collection, “Assisted Living.” The…

As Alyce Ritti sat in the recliner in her bedroom, Camille-Yvette Welsch shared a poem she wrote inspired by Ritti’s life (see poem below).Welsch met…

“Ice Mountain,” Dave Bonta’s most recent poetry collection, consists of short poems etched in an immediate present. Each poem is nine lines long, and…

This past March, slam poet Olivia Gatwood released her first collection of printed poems. “New American Best Friend,” which focuses on the struggles of…

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State University, and an accomplished poet. She took a sabbatical last year to…