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Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Lock Haven University English professor Marjorie Maddox, the school's director of creative writing, discusses the etymology of animal group names.
Professor Maddox earned an MFA at Cornell and an MA at the University of Louisville. She has published several books, poems, collections, and children's books.
Her numerous honors include Cornell University s Chasen Award, the 2000 Paumanok Poetry Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Seattle Review's Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Breadloaf Scholarship, four Pushcart Prize nominations, and a 2003 runner-up for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes.
Music: The Beatles - Octopus's Garden