Marjorie Maddox Hafer (pen name: Marjorie Maddox)

On Line: Reviews, Honors, Publications, Other

Book Reviews/Honors 

Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and the Poetry of Place

• October 11, 2012 Capitol Building Reading in Harrisburg, PA (including "Clyde Peeling's Reptiland")

• WITF and Midtown Scholar Bookstore October 2012 Pick-of-the-Month for Common Wealth

• Radio Interview with WITF's Cary Burkett on Pennsylvania Poets Reading at the Capitol Building in Harrisburg

• Article in Sun Gazette on Capitol Building Reading

• Reading on WITF "Pennsylvania September: The Witnesses" about United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11

• NPR Radio Interview with WVIA's Erika Funke on the Poetry of Place

• "The Power to Inspire: Bringing Poetry to the People" (Chautauqua Institution talk)

• "Poetry in Its Place(s)" Writer-in-Residence at Chautauqua

• Bringing "Poetry to the People" at the Sunbury River Festival (video)

• The Dad Poet Blog and the Sunbury River Festival

• The Dad Poet Blog and "Clyde Peeling's Reptiland"
  

• www.psupress.org  
   
• Governor’s Awards for the Arts (poem honored and performed)

• Poetry Out Loud Competition Judge (Governor's Mansion)

• Review by Melissa Beattie-Moss at Research Penn State

• www.thesmedleylog.com 
   
• www.rps.psu.edu
  

• Pennsylvania Landscape as Body (Blog Review)
   
• www.zencast.com

Book Reviews/Honors 
Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation

• www.niederngasse.com
  
  
• www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29088448_ITM
  

Book Reviews/Honors 
Weeknights at the Cathedral

• www.arabesques-editions.com

• "The Wound as Memory"... (Review by Sophia Starnes)
  
  
• Pleiades Review

• "Collecting Angel Wings" on Every Day Poems

• Poem "Ash Wednesday" discussed on the program Open Book on Blog Talk Radio

• www.amigofish.com 
   
• goliath.ecnext.com 
   
• www.frontporchrepublic.com 
   
• alycewilson.livejournal.com
  
  
• Philip Kolin in Rock & Sling

• Goodreads

Book Reviews/Honors

Perpendicular As I

• Bruce Bond in Prairie Schooner

Book Reviews/Honors 

Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems

• May 2012 List on Books About Sports at The Center for Children's Books, Compiled  and Annotated by Anna Holland 

• Pennsylvania State Librarians Association 2008—2009 Young Adult Top 40 List for Nonfiction and Fiction

• WAMC Academic Moment Broadcast on Poetry and Baseball
  

• WVIA August 23, 2010 ArtScene with Fiona Powell

• http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2010/04/poetry-makers-marjorie-maddox.html

• http://davidlharrison.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/marjorie-maddox-today/ 

• Teaching Ideas from TeachingBooks.net

• Review and Teaching Ideas from WCMU Public Radio

• Reading "Little League World Series: First Play" at Sunbury River Festival

• School Library Journal

• San Francisco Chronicle

• Review at Sal's Fiction Addiction: Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems

• Booklist: RULES OF THE GAME 
  The overlap between poetry readers and baseball fans at this age range may be small, but for those in the middle of that particular Venn diagram, this is indeed a rare treat. Which isn't to say others won't gain something from this book. Sports fans will find themselves nodding in recognition of Maddox's sophisticated grasp of the game's intricacies, while language mavens will appreciate her joyous wordplay and dead-eye command of poetic devices, even if they don't quite catch all of the allusions. A knuckleball becomes "that pigeon / flapping awkwardly / out the barn door of a hand" and a line drive "a sharp swing of invisible string on which the ball careens." Some of the best lines are the simplest: a sacrifice bunt "kills it with a tap. Sandford's charcoal pencil drawings, backed by sepia-toned pages, may not exactly grab readers' eyes, but they impart a classy timelessness to the book that's a nice match to its subject. For the right reader, this could be an eye-opening glimpse of poetry doing what prose cannot.
  - Ian Chipman                                      

• Meridian Magazine

• New York City Government Recommended Poetry Books for Teachers

• Project Muse:  Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

• Got Poems? Blog by Author and Anthologist Paul Janeczko

• Poetry for Children Blog
  
  
• Kid Lit Kit/Scholastic  (Blog)

• video on "Grand Slam"
  

• Guide Book to Gift Books
   
• USA Today Blog
  
  
• Radio Review on WPSU’s BookMark
  
  
• Books of Wonder

• Children's Literature to Literally Love
  
  
• The Lock Haven Express 
  
  
• Williamsport Sun Gazette
  
  
• Otto’s Book Store Review

• Children's Poetry Books
  selected by PCL Children's Specialist Jennifer Romans

• Children's Literature to Literally Love

• http://www.vianegativa.us/2010/04/when-the-wood-clacks-out-your-name/

Book Reviews/Honors 

A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry

• WPSU's BookMark

• WAMC Academic Moment Broadcast on Collective Nouns

• http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2010/04/poetry-makers-marjorie-maddox.html

• http://davidlharrison.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/marjorie-maddox-today/

• All About the Books with Janet Squire, 2011

• Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended List 2009

• Got Poems? Blog by Author and Anthologist Paul Janeczko

• Teaching Ideas from TeachingBooks.net

• As a Tool to "Build Your Child's Naturalist Intelligence"

• www.chasingray.com

• blaine.org

• www.mentor.lib.oh.us

• www.bookslut.com

• poetryforchildren.blogspot.com

• Review at Sal's Fiction Addiction:  A Crossing of Zebras

• Story Book House Blog

• Animals/Teens

• Books Help Celebrate Our Planet

• Global Wildlife Center

• Storybook House Blog

Additional Links to On-line Work

• "Chimera," "Cartography," "Grand Slam," Poetry Magazine and The Poetry Foundation Apps (poetry and apps)

• "Permanent" Moon Milk Review (prose)

• "Rachel Isum Robinson: Snatches and Excerpts," African American Review (prose)

• "Going Over," New Verse News (poetry, fiscal cliff)

• " A Doll's House Redux " (prose)

• "This World and This One" (Blog for Relief Magazine)

• "Fatal Shock Mystery" ("It's Political" issue of Verse Wisconsin)

• "After the Art Gallery"

•  waywardcouch.blogspot.com

•  "Between States," Fiddleblack (poetry)

• "After Having Children, We Reintroduce Ourselves to Bicycles," Adanna's Featured Poets Page (poetry)

• "Learning to Yell," The Medulla Review (prose) 
   
• www.theotherjournal.com (prose)

• "Faith," Ascent (poetry)

• Arabesque Review (poetry and prose)

• Trigger (two poems and artwork)

• "Nonsmoking Section," Minnesota Review, Duke University Press (prose; nominated for Pushcart Prize)

• "Backyard Inchworms," Canary (poetry)

• "Appropriate," Boxcar Poetry Review (poetry)

• "Feet," First Things (poetry)

• "A Colleague Falls to His Death at Niagara Falls," 2River View (poetry and recording)

• "Afternoon Nap," Literary Mama (poetry)

• "Easter Eve Vigil," Christianity and Literature (poetry)

• "Looking at Glass," Dominion Review (poetry)

• Painted Bride Quarterly (poetry)

• "St. Mary's Field Trip," The Cresset (prose)

• A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (Sarabande, poetry)

• "Alexus and Giles: Patron Saints of Beggars," First Things (poetry)

• US Catholic 1st Place Fiction Award

• "Ash Wednesday," First Things (poetry)

• "A House Divided," The Other Journal (poetry)

• "The Prophecy of Birds," The Christian Century (poetry)

• "Nine Alive!" The Other Journal (poetry)

• Poems on Magical Realism  and  poetic definition of

Other

• Top 50 list of 2012 Best Short Stories, Wigleaf

• News Article from The Chautauquan Daily

• NPR Radio Interview: Todd Davis and Jack Ridl on Fast Break to Line Break:Poets on the Art of Basketball

• Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, which includes my essay "Going Exactly Where We Want to Go"

• Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature

• Penn State's Public Poetry Project: Featured Poet

• Essay on Writing Children's Literature on David Harrison's Blog:
  http://davidlharrison.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/marjorie-maddox-today/

• Semifinalist Leapfrog Press 2009 Fiction Book Award:  http://www.leapfrogpress.com/contest.htm  

• SOL English Writing in Mexico Anthology                                                                                                                                                                             
  
• Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics   http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Attractors-Poems-Love-Mathematics/dp/1568813414

• Hey You! Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things
  
  
• Baseball and the “Sultan of Swat”
  

• Vineyards

• Hurricane Blues

• Poetry Out Loud
  
  
• Special issue of The Southern Quarterly devoted to the legacy of Emmett Till
  
  
• Watershed
  
  
• LHU’s Celebration of Scholarship

• The Working Poet: 75 Writing Exercises and a Poetry Anthology