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Good Bones. February 3, 2020. 00:00. 00:00. View the full text of the poem in this episode. by Maggie Smith. Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day. Subscribe. More Episodes from Audio Poem of the Day.
By Maggie Smith About this Poet Maggie Smith is the author of Goldenrod (Simon & Schuster, 2021), Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (Simon & Schuster, 2020), Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks.
Reviewed by Sarah Appleton. Good Bones. Poems by Maggie Smith. Tupelo Press, October 1, 2017. $16.95; 112 pp. ISBN: 978-1946482082. “Let me love the world the way I love,” Maggie Smith says in “Rain, New Year’s Eve,” the final poem in Good Bones. This line encapsulates one of the central themes of the collection: loving the world and ...
Aug 23, 2016 · “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith (Website, Twitter, Books).). “Good Bones” first appeared in Waxwing IX (Summer 2016) and is contained in Maggie Smith’s forthcoming book, Weep Up, Tupelo Press, 2018.
Apr 15, 2023 · Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" went viral in 2016. She talks with NPR's Miles Parks about her work and her divorce, both subjects of her new memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful."
Maggie Smith. Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2017 - Poetry - 112 pages. Featuring "Good Bones" --called "Official Poem of 2016" by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot.
Good Bones, the collection that took the internet by storm in 2017, is a collection of modern poetry that speaks to the world we live in. Maggie Smith contemplates the past and our future, life and death, childhood and motherhood. She writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book ...
