How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled?: Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks

How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled?: Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks

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Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Sage Graduate Fellow of Cornell University (MFA), and 2023 Monson Arts Fellow, Marjorie Maddox has published fifteen collections of poetry. These include Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (WordTech, Yellowglen Prize); Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Book Award); Begin with a Question (Paraclete, International Book Award and Illumination Book Award winner, Catholic Media Book Awards third place recipient); 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—www.hafer.work—as well as artists Karen Elias, Greg Mort, Margaret Munz-Losch, Antar Mikosz, Ingo Swann, and Christian Twamley). Forthcoming is Seeing Things (Wildhouse 2024).

In addition, Marjorie Maddox 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 assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry and co-editor, with Jerry Wemple, of two anthologies from Pennsylvania State University Press: Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2005) and Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2025). She served as host for WPSU’s 2023–2024 NPR radio show Poetry Moment. The recipient of numerous awards, she gives readings and workshops around the world.

For more information, please see:
www.marjoriemaddox.com

Paperback: 54 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (May 6, 2024)