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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.
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find it in: Lamp of the Body. Originally appeared in. Read...
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Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977, Maggie Smith is the New...
- Books
In Maggie Smith’s award-winning chapbook, “as in the...
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Maggie Smith is not currently taking on editorial clients...
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‣ Literary Agent Joy TutelaDavid Black Literary...
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Stay tuned for more information about online workshops with...
- The Journal
Based on the national bestseller Keep Moving, a 52-exercise...
- Goldenrod
NATIONAL BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY NPR. From...
- Good Bones
Close reading of Good Bones by the poet Sandra Beasley. Life...
- You Could Make This Place Beautiful
New York Times Bestseller. “Life, like a poem, is a series...
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Maggie Smith is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor who lives in Bexley, Ohio. Smith's poem "Good Bones," originally published in the journal Waxwing in June 2016, has been widely circulated on social media and read by an estimated one million people.
- "Good Bones" (2016)
- 1977 (age 45–46), Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
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1. ‘ How Dark the Beginning ’. In this 2020 poem, Smith notes how ‘light’ is synonymous with ‘goodness’ in the popular imagination and in film (indeed, poetry too, we might add). Instead, she wants to focus on the ‘good dark’ that accompanies the true beginning of the day, before sunrise, when dawn first breaks.
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
Oct 6, 2020 · Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” earned her fame as a viral poet. Can her new book turn her into a guru of literary self-help? By Dan Kois. Oct 06, 20203:50 PM. Maggie Smith. The night...
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