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I’m a poet, writer, editor, and teacher. I’ve published several books of poetry and prose, including Good Bones (you might know the title poem) and two recent bestsellers, Keep Moving and Goldenrod. My memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, is a New York Times bestseller.
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.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977, Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful; the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change; as well as Good Bones, named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by the Washington Post and winner of the….
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…
Maggie Smith - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005).
Good Bones. By Maggie Smith. Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine. in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways. I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least. fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative.
Poet, writer, editor, and teacher. Author of "Good Bones" and the latest, "You Could Make This Place Beautiful."
Jul 27, 2021 · With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory.
The List of Dangers. In Maggie Smith’s award-winning chapbook, “as in the Brothers Grimm, we learn early how hazardous life is and how eagerly our fate awaits us. In these inventive new poems, Smith borrows elements from folktales, fairy tales, and fables.” —Kathy Fagan. About the Book.
Oct 2, 2017 · One of Entropy‘s Best of 2017. Good Bones 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.
