Maggie Smith (Author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful)
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Maggie Smith

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Maggie Smith is the author of the national bestseller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020); Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press 2015), winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn; and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press 2005), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award; and three prizewinning chapbooks.

Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, Image, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, AGNI, Guernica, Brevity, the Washington Post, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals and anthologies. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into
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You Could Make This Place B...

4.10 avg rating — 23,918 ratings — published 2023
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Keep Moving: Notes on Loss,...

3.89 avg rating — 5,764 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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Goldenrod: Poems

3.95 avg rating — 4,152 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions
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Good Bones

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The Well Speaks of Its Own ...

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My Thoughts Have Wings

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Lamp of the Body

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The List Of Dangers

4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Disasterology

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Keep Moving: The Journal: T...

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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“Ask yourself about the kind of life you want: What would you do day to day, and with whom, and where? Consider the life you have. Do one thing today, however small, to close the gap between the two.”
Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

“How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go.
Inside forty-something me is the woman I was in my thirties, the woman I was in my twenties, the teenager I was, the child I was.
Inside divorced me: married me, the me who loved my husband, the me who believed what we had was irrevocable and permanent, the me who believed in permanence.
I still carry these versions of myself. It's a kind of reincarnation without death: all these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves.”
Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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Lesley Hi, Mags!


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