Marjorie Maddox and Robert Lowes are our featured readers on Wednesday September 16th, 2020 starting at 7 PM. Both were recommended by Jimmy Papas who is VP of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. We welcome these new voices to PoetryBridge LIVE!. Read more below to see their bios. See Poems for selected poems they plan to read. We invite all Community Micers to read after our featured readers.
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Marjorie Maddox: Marjorie Maddox has published 11 collections of poetry—including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); the story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite Press); four children’s and YA books—including Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Readiing Poems with Insider Exercises (Finalist 2020 International Book Awards), A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry ; Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems; and I’m Feeling Blue, Too!—Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (co-editor); Presence (assistant editor); and 600+ stories, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies. Her book Begin with a Question is forthcoming in 2021.
For more information visit www.marjoriemaddox.com
Robert Lowes is an independent journalist whose poetry has appeared in The New Republic, December, Tampa Review, Big Muddy, The American Journal of Poetry, The Christian Century, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. He is an active member and former president of the St. Louis Poetry Center.
For more information, visit www.robertlowes.com.