On a rainy-day excursion, poet Marjorie Maddox and her daughter and artist Anna Lee Hafer visit the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, where, as never before, they realize how their passions for art and poetry intersect. With this exhibit and Hafer's own surreal paintings as inspiring backdrop, they exchange their responses to joy and trauma more deeply-artist to artist, mother to daughter. These connections between poet and visual artist constitute the core of this ekphrastic collection. In addition, Maddox includes nine poems based on work she saw that day by Antar Mikosz,…mehr
On a rainy-day excursion, poet Marjorie Maddox and her daughter and artist Anna Lee Hafer visit the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, where, as never before, they realize how their passions for art and poetry intersect. With this exhibit and Hafer's own surreal paintings as inspiring backdrop, they exchange their responses to joy and trauma more deeply-artist to artist, mother to daughter. These connections between poet and visual artist constitute the core of this ekphrastic collection. In addition, Maddox includes nine poems based on work she saw that day by Antar Mikosz, Greg Mort, Margaret Munz-Losch, Ingo Swann, and Christian Twamley, as well as several later collaborations with Karen Elias.
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Marjorie Maddox has published fourteen collections of poetry-including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize), True, False, None of the Above (2017 Illumination Book Award Medalist), Local News from Someplace Else, Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Book Award), Begin with a Question (Winner Poetry/Religious Category 2022 International Book Awards), and Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shanti Arts), an ekphrastic collaboration with photographer Karen Elias. In addition, she has published the short story collection What She Was Saying and four children's and YA books-including Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises (Finalist Children's Educational Category 2020 International Book Awards), A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry, and I'm Feeling Blue, Too! (a 2021 NCTE Notable Poetry Book)-as well as the anthologies Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and the forthcoming Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (co-editor with Jerry Wemple, PSU Press). The assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, she is the recipient of numerous awards and gives workshops and readings around the world. For more information, please visit www.marjoriemaddox.com.
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