“To Everything There Is a Season: An Interactive Poetry Retreat Informed by Ecclesiastes,” led by Marjorie Maddox, Bethany Retreat Center, 15-18 May, Frenchville, PA. For more information, click HERE.
“Finding Your Muse in Northern Appalachia,” with Judith Sornberger, WCoNA Conference, 8 March 2025.
Please join us for “Poems at the Gallery: A Generative Workshop on Writing about Art,” Saturday, July 20th, 11:00 am, Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center, Wellsboro, PA!
By: Carrie Heath, June 28, 2024
The Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center in Wellsboro, PA, is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop with Marjorie Maddox, “Poems at the Gallery!” In this generative workshop, we’ll practice writing poetry that responds to art, particularly the art on exhibit at the Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center. Join us as we explore artist Tricia Haegele’s “Abandoned World.” Then it’s off to the races with Christine Moore’s high-fashion display of hats! No previous writing experience necessary. Come ready to engage, experiment, write, laugh. Leave with new drafts and strategies for future poems.
The writing workshop will be held on Saturday, July 20th at 11AM. Participants will be able to view the exhibits when no one else is in the building to let their creativity flow. Class is open to adults only, and is limited to 15 participants. The cost is $25. Pre-registration and payment are required. Please contact the director at 570-724-1917 or director@gmeinerartculturalcenter.org to sign up and arrange for payment. Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University, 2023 Monson Arts Fellow, a poetry editor of Presence, and radio host of WPSU’s Poetry Moment, Marjorie Maddox has published fifteen collections of poetry, including one focused on baseball. Marjorie has presented here at the Gmeiner before with her friend Karen Elias about their art and poetry collaboration, Heart Speaks, Is Spoken To. Her poetry graced the walls here in May along with her daughter, Anna Lee Hafer’s, paintings during Anna Lee’s exhibit “Surreal Spaces.” These poems were published in Marjorie’s ekphrastic collection, In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind. For more information on Marjorie, please see her website at: www.marjoriemaddox.com
