{"product_id":"local-news-from-someplace-else-hardcover-1","title":"Local News from Someplace Else - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarjorie Maddox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributor(s): Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Book Award); Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); Weeknights at the Cathedral; five chapbooks; and two children's books. Coeditor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and recipient of numerous literary honors, she earned degrees from Wheaton College, University of Louisville, and Cornell University, which awarded her the Sage Graduate Fellowship for an MFA in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarjorie Maddox is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLocal News from Someplace Else \u003c\/i\u003e (Wipf \u0026amp; Stock, 2013); \u003ci\u003ePerpendicular As I \u003c\/i\u003e (1994 Sandstone Book Award); \u003ci\u003eWeeknights at the Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); \u003ci\u003eTransplant, Transport, Transubstantiation \u003c\/i\u003e (2004 Yellowglen Prize); \u003ci\u003eWhen the Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner); \u003ci\u003eBody Parts (1999); \u003ci\u003eEcclesia \u003c\/i\u003e (1997); \u003ci\u003eHow to Fit God into a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); \u003ci\u003eNightrider to Edinburgh\u003c\/i\u003e (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner); and the forthcoming short story collection \u003ci\u003eWhat She Was Saying, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as over 450 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She is the co-editor, with Jerry Wemple, of \u003ci\u003eCommon Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and two children's books--\u003ci\u003eA Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eRules of the Game: Baseball Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2009)--and two forthcoming--\u003ci\u003eA Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball's Great Experimentand Inside Out: Poems on Writing Poems. Working Poet: 75 Writing Exercises. \u003c\/i\u003e Her memoir essay, Going Exactly Where We Want to Go, is included in \u003ci\u003eFast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Todd Davis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marjorie studied with A. R. Ammons, Robert Morgan, Phyllis Janowitz, and Ken McClane at Cornell, where she received her MFA in poetry in 1989. Maddox received an MA in English at the University of Louisville and a BA in Literature at Wheaton College. She lives with her husband and two children in Williamsport, PA, birthplace of Little League and home of the Little League World Series. She is the great grandniece of baseball legend Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42670296268896,"sku":"9781498267700","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/RExzYWQ0UEIwd0ZDSFpBTldFbW92UT09.webp?v=1774918372","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/local-news-from-someplace-else-hardcover-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}