LHU’s Maddox Visits Lock Haven Book Club
LOCK HAVEN – Marjorie Maddox, Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, discussed her works at the Thursday meeting of the Book Club at the Dutch Haven Restaurant in Lock Haven.
Her luncheon visit included discussion of her Local News from Someplace Else and What She Was Saying.
The Maddox works include: Local News from Someplace Else , Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award); Weeknights At The Cathedral (an Editions Selection, WordTech, 2006); Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize, WordTech Editions); When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner); Body Parts (Anamnesis Press, 1999); Ecclesia(Franciscan University Press, 1997); How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner), as well as 400 poems, stories, and essays in such journals and anthologies as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, and Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion.
In all she has written eleven collections of poetry, a short story collection, and four children’s books; also co-editor of an anthology.
The Book Club is the oldest continuing book club in Lock Haven with 13 members some second-generation. The club will celebrate 70 years in 2019.
