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The common lurches into the eerie and back again. The forest invades our nightmares and day dreams. Veils slip aside briefly to suggest ancient myths and stories told over the eons to try to help us understand the falling of stars and dying of everything we love or touch. Maggie Smith’s new collection looms rich in terrible “grim” fairy tales, told with a hint of the child’s voice but very much adult in theme and honesty. She is an Editor at Large at the Kenyon Review and is also on the faculty of Spalding University's low-residency MFA program. In April 2017 the poem was featured on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary.Ī 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Maggie Smith works as freelance writer and editor. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. 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. 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.
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