Seeing Things
With its focus on memory, illness, and their ramifications, Seeing Things explores overlapping roles of a daughter whose mother is entering the beginning stages of
Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, Sage Graduate Fellow of Cornell University (MFA), and 2023 Monson Arts Fellow, Marjorie Maddox has published seventeen collections of poetry—including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Book Award); Begin with a Question (Paraclete, International Book Award and Illumination Book Award winners, Catholic Media Book Awards third place recipient); How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks (Kelsay Books 2024); and the ekphrastic collaborations from Shanti Arts 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 as well as artists Karen Elias, Greg Mort, Margaret Munz-Losch, Ingo Swann and Christian Twamley). The latter won the 2024 Royal Dragonfly Award for fine art and photography, as well as the 2024 American Fiction Award for poetry. Small Earthly Space (Shanti Arts 2024) and Hover Here (Broadstone 2025) are forthcoming.
In addition, she has published the story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite Press); four children’s and YA books—including Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises (Kelsay Books, Finalist International Book Awards), A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Pacts in Poetry (Boyd Mills Press/Wipf & Stock), I’m Feeling Blue, Too! (Wipf & Stock, a 2021 NCTE Notable Poetry Book), and Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (Boyd Mills Press/Wipf & Stock).
She is the assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry and the co-editor with Jerry Wemple of two anthologies from Pennsylvania State University Press: Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2005) and Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2025). She serves as host for WPSU-FM’s radio show Poetry Moment. The recipient of numerous awards, she gives readings and workshops around the world. For more information, see www.marjoriemaddox.com
With its focus on memory, illness, and their ramifications, Seeing Things explores overlapping roles of a daughter whose mother is entering the beginning stages of
Wildhouse Publishing exists to publish books for spiritually adventurous people.
566 Commonwealth Ave Suite M-2
Boston, MA 02215
Wildhouse distributes books worldwide.
Questions:
Please contact
admin@wildhousepublishing.com
Submissions:
Click here
© Copyright 2022 Wildhouse Publishing, LLC