April is National Poetry Month, and we're celebrating by welcoming critically acclaimed poet Maggie Smith to our library for an author talk and poetry reading.
April is National Poetry Month, and we're celebrating by welcoming critically acclaimed poet Maggie Smith to our library for an author talk and poetry reading. Smith is the author of Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national best-seller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. Her latest collection of poems, Goldenrod, was released in July 2021 from Simon & Schuster.
Smith’s poems and essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. In 2016, her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Public Radio International called it “the official poem of 2016.”
Registration is required. A book sale and signing will follow the conclusion of the program.
"To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment—a sentiment that is omnipresent in her latest collection of poems, Goldenrod. In this volume, the award-winning poet uses the seemingly familiar objects and happenings of everyday life—an autocorrect mistake, a rock from her young son’s pocket and a field of the titular goldenrods—as conduits for finding the extraordinary in the day-to-day motions of a routine. In doing so, Smith makes the case that nearly every element in our lives can be part of the divine, if we only take the time to look.” —TIME