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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