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  1. Apr 27, 2023 · Suddenly, Ms. Smith wasn’t just a mother and wife who wrote poems when she had a free moment. She found herself invited to readings, conferences and seminars; her husband had to pick up the...

  2. Oct 16, 2020 · In the fall of 2018, poet Maggie Smith's almost 19-year marriage ended. So, as the leaves gave their last burst of color before winter, she took to social media to lift herself up.

  3. Smith met her former husband, an attorney, at university. They have two children. [9] Their divorce is the focus of her memoir. [6] [9] [10]

  4. Nov 9, 2023 · Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, learned to stop thinking only of loss after divorce and see herself and her family as whole.

  5. Apr 17, 2023 · When her husband relocates to another state, she forges a life alone with just her and her two children. A series of tweets she writes about the divorce becomes a book, “Keep Moving,” and inspires a Mountain Goats song, “Picture of My Dress.”

  6. May 27, 2023 · Poet Maggie Smiths memoir, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” chronicles her divorce but also tackles common family terrain.

  7. Apr 11, 2023 · April 11, 2023. 'You Could Make This Place Beautiful' ( courtesy of Simon and Schuster ) Summary Transcript. Celebrated poet and author Maggie Smith suspected something might be going on with her husband, and when she went through his briefcase she found evidence he had been having an affair.

  8. Jul 10, 2023 · Poet Maggie Smith’s debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, is about the end of her marriage, grief, motherhood, the pain that comes with change, and where she found herself in these moments. Her prose, like her poetry, is gorgeous and moving.

  9. Apr 14, 2023 · You Could Make This Place Beautiful” — the last phrase of the poem — is now the title of Smith’s latest book, a memoir about the end of her marriage to her husband and an interrogation of the gender roles that shaped it.

  10. Poet Maggie Smith's latest book isn't a poetry collection, but a memoir.

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