In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind - Maddox, Marjorie
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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

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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.
Autorenporträt
Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, Marjorie Maddox has published 16 collections of poetry-including How Can I Look It Up When I Don't Know How It's Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks (Kelsay Books 2024) and Seeing Things (Wildhouse 2025), as well as Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); Begin with a Question (International Book and Illumination Book Award winner); and the Shanti Arts ekphrastic collaborations Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (with photographer Karen Elias) and In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind, featuring work with her artist daughter, Anna Lee Hafer (www.hafer.work), and including work by Karen Elias, Margaret Munz-Losch, Antar Mikosz, Greg Mort, Ingo Swann, and Christian Twamley. In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind was awarded the 2023 Dragonfly Book Award in the photography/fine arts category and honorable mention in the poetry category. Hover Here (Broadstone 2025) is forthcoming. In addition, Maddox has published the story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite) and 4 children's and YA books. With Jerry Wemple, she is co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (PSU Press) and is assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. She hosts the radio show Poetry Moment at WPSU-FM. www.marjoriemaddox.com