Maggie Smith

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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. Smith’s poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Smith is a freelance writer and editor.

Poems by Maggie Smith

First Fall
Good Bones
How Dark the Beginning
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Maggie Smith

First Fall

Good Bones

How Dark the Beginning

Parachute

Threshold

What I Carried

You Could Never Take A Car to Greenland,

Light & Darkness

Light & Darkness

Poems of Anxiety and Uncertainty

Poems for Mother’s Day

Poems About Motherhood

Anna Akana reads Maggie Smith’s poem, “Good Bones”.

First Fall

Good Bones

How Dark the Beginning

Maggie Smith reads “Threshold”

Parachute

Reader Discretion Advised

Spatial Poetry

Threshold

What I Carried