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  1. Oct 6, 2020 · Four years after “Good Bones” went viral, in the midst of an even grimmer moment in American history, this new book feels like a clear bid to transform Maggie Smith from a famous (for a...

  2. Apr 11, 2023 · Bexley Poet Maggie Smith on Publishing Her Memoir, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful”. The Central Ohio native and author of the viral poem “Good Bones” discusses the craft of writing, the joys of self-discovery and motherhood, and her debut memoir, out April 11. Emma Frankart Henterly. Columbus Monthly.

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  4. Apr 27, 2023 · In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey Global Publishing’s Raju Narisetti chats with poet Maggie Smith about her new book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful (Atria/One Signal Publishers, April 11, 2023). Two years after her first Author Talks interview, Smith offers a new perspective on perseverance. In the wake of immeasurable loss ...

  5. depths of fairy tales to transform the daily into encounters with the marvelous but dangerous, Maggie Smith's poems question whether the realms of imagination and story can possibly be safe.

  6. Oct 6, 2020 · When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation.

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  7. Jul 26, 2020 · In 2015 Maggie Smith sat in a Starbucks in Bexley, Ohio, and wrote a poem on a legal pad. She didn’t think “Good Bones” was her best poem, but she sent it out. Rejections followed. The online literary journal Waxwing published “Good Bones” in June 2016, That was the week a gunman killed 49 people

  8. Dec 17, 2020 · I wrote a poem that appears in my last book, Good Bones, about how the future is empty. It was inspired by a question that my daughter, Violet, asked me in the car when she was three years old. And her question was, what is the future? The poem is called “Future.” Everything that hasn’t happened yet.