The Little League World Series: First Play
Teams crowd the hills, fill in the land along the river, uniforms, like patches of colorful cows amidst the fields. All the corn points…
Sage Graduate Fellow of Cornell University (MFA) and Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Marjorie Maddox has published ten collections of poetry—including <em>True, False, None of the Above</em> (Poiema Poetry Series); <em>Local News from Someplace Else</em> (Wipf and Stock); <em>Transplant, Transplant, Transubstantiation</em> (Yellowglen Prize); and <em>Perpendicular As I</em> (Sandstone Book Award)—the short story collection <em>What She Was Saying</em> (forthcoming 2017 Fomite), and over 450 stories, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies. Co-editor of <em>Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania</em> (Penn State Press), she also has published four children’s books.
Teams crowd the hills, fill in the land along the river, uniforms, like patches of colorful cows amidst the fields. All the corn points…
Her eyes blur the fields. She shrinks to a seed, forgets to speak, forgets to say how footprints till the layers of her brain,…
Twenty miles into Ohio, sky shifts downward, opens wide to hide hills, pries the “hi” from the sides of its name. There a man…
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the collection of short stories What She Was Saying by Marjorie Maddox (Fomite, 2017). I. Before…
My daughter dreams breasts, lip-synching lunch. I am the large one beside her, a sleepy parenthesis curl for her appetite. Like a sleepwalker descending…
shouts 4-Hour Doorbusters in headliner arrogance above the full-color page of bras jutting out at any middle-aged onlooker unaware of ironic intent. My six-year-old daughter…
Again, I ask the young, bright in muscles and orange hats as they stack concrete and lean away from the river to plant their…