David and poet Marjorie Maddox talk poetry, inspiration, loss, and transformation as they read poems together and discuss her latest collections, Hover Here, Small Earthly Space, and Seeing Things.

Welcome to In Three Poems, where we read three poems with a different guest poet each episode, and the third poem is always a work by another poet, chosen by our guest.

POEM 1

“How We Are Found” by Marjorie Maddox, from one of her recent collections, Hover Here. Read by David.

POEM 2

“Ode to Everything” from Seeing Things by Marjorie Maddox. Read by Marjorie

POEM 3

“Litany of Flights” by Laura Reece Hogan, read by Marjorie Maddox. Thank you to Laura Reece Hogan for permission to read her poem on the podcast.

Links:

Marjorie Maddox

Hover Here

Small Earthly Space

Seeing Things

Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania

Marjorie Maddox:

Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, 2023 Monson Arts Fellow, a poetry editor of Presence, and radio host of WPSU-FM'’s Poetry Moment, Marjorie Maddox has published seventeen collections of poetry, including Begin with a Question from Paraclete Press (Illumination Book Award and International Book Award); How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks (Kelsay Books 2024); Seeing Things (Wildhouse Publishing February 2024), Hover Here (Broadstone Books, January 2026); Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State University Press, 2025).

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David and Monica Prince have a fun but also heavy discussion about women and trauma, and about the writing of poetry and the production of choreopoems. The discussion ranges from word choice in poem to forms like lipograms and the distinctions between womanhood and motherhood.

POEM 1

“Political Poem as Prayer”, written by Monica Prince, published in Movable Type ( 2023), read by David.

POEM 2

From “Hysteria,” a Choreopoem in Progress, written and read by Monica.

POEM 3

“I am unfit to raise daughters,” written by Jessica Nirvana Ram, from Earthly Gods (2024, Variant Lit), read by Monica Prince.

Links:

monicaprince.com

What Is a Choreopoem?

Monica Prince, Associate Professor of Activist & Performance Writing, serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Roadmap: A Choreopoem, How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem, Instructions for Temporary Survival, and Letters from the Other Woman, with another choreopoem, FORCE, forthcoming in Janaury 2026. Her work appears in Twisted Tongue, In Short, Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. As one of the foremost choreopoem scholars, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation.

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David reads poetry with his good friend and fellow poet Philip F. Clark. The first two poems are by Philip and from his book The Carnival of Affection (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). The third poem was chosen by Philip and written by Cavafy.

POEM 1

“Lacrimosa” from The Carnival of Affection (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017), read by David.

POEM 2

“The Beggar's Welcome'” from The Carnival of Affection, read by Philip.

POEM 3

“The Afternoon Sun” by C.P. Cavafy, read by Philip F. Clark. Originally published in "The City" from C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translation Copyright © 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

Links:

Order The Carnival of Affection: https://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/the-carnival-of-affection-by-philip-f-clark

"The Afternoon Sun:" file:///C:/Users/david/Downloads/The%20Afternoon%20Sun%20_%20The%20Poetry%20Foundation.pdf

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