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Apr 11, 2023 · In her new memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Smith unpacks her feelings of betrayal, sadness, bitterness and the painful process of going through a divorce with two small children. She joins us to discuss the memoir.
May 27, 2023 · Poet Maggie Smith’s memoir, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” chronicles her divorce but also tackles common family terrain.
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.”
Jul 10, 2023 · Maggie Smith: One of the narratives around marriage, it seems to me, is the story of finding someone who “completes you”—your missing half. According to that story, divorce is a halving, a split of a whole into two (diminished, lesser) halves.
Apr 23, 2024 · In her tender memoir, poet Maggie Smith reflects on experiences she will never be able to fully fathom — how the person she loved and married and had children with could leave her for someone else.
May 30, 2024 · By Blake Maddux. The inciting action of Maggie Smith’s moving memoir is the event that forced her to reckon with the fact that her marriage was in trouble. For as long as I have known her, Maggie Smith has aspired to be a poet. And I have known her since we were students together at Ohio Wesleyan University between 1995 and 1998.
Education. Ohio Wesleyan University (BA) Ohio State University (MFA) Notable works. "Good Bones" (2016) Children. 2. Maggie Smith is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor who lives in Bexley, Ohio. Her 2016 poem "Good Bones" went viral and her 2023 memoir was a New York Times best-seller.
