Goldenrod, Smith’s new collection following her viral success of Good Bones, is a dazzling love letter to a damaged world that sweetly illuminates the notion that we can find beauty even in darkness. ‘ What is home,’ Maggie Smith writes, ‘ but a passage I’m writing & underlining every time I read it.’ The proximity of home to poetry is deeply felt, particularly as it is so easy to find yourself at home within the emotions blossoming from each page. 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.

Good Bones by Maggie Smith