04/27/2026
📣📣First Friday!! May 1st. 📣📣
On May Day Come Hear Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple
Our featured poets for First Friday are the wonderful combination of Jerry Wemple and Marjorie Maddox. Join us at the Ragged Edge Coffeehouse on May 1, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. We start promptly at 7:00 pm with an open mic. Feel free to bring a poem to share.
Poetry Moment host for WPSU-FM, assistant editor of Presence, and Professor Emerita at Commonwealth University, Marjorie Maddox has published 17 collections of poetry—most recently Hover Here, Seeing Things, Small Earthly Space, and In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind—as well as a story collection, 5 children’s books, and the anthologies Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and Keystone Poetry (co-editor with Jerry Wemple). Her middle-grade biography about her great granduncle, Branch Rickey, is A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball’s Great Experiment. Visit www.marjoriemaddox.com.