Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017) The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (2015) and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005). It’s also about learning how to look danger in the eye, how to acknowledge the thing that wants to stop us-uproot us, undo us-and then refusing to let it.” Public Radio International dubbed Good Bones“the official poem of 2016.” According to Julie Marie Wade on The Rumpus,“… if the book called Good Bones has a moral, it’s about learning to grow where planted. On Sunday, October 6, the Katonah Poetry Series (KPS) is honored to feature award-winning poet Maggie Smith. Smith’s poetry addresses critical questions of our time, such as, How do you preserve hope and safety in a precarious world, especially for the children? How do we nurse ourselves through each news-shaken day?These themes were so vividly illuminated in Maggie Smith’s poem Good Bonesthat it went viral in 2016 and was translated into nearly a dozen languages. LOCATION: Katonah Village Library Garden Room, Katonah, NYĪward-winning Poet Maggie Smith to Read for Katonah Poetry Series on October 6 Email: IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 7, 2019ĮVENT DATE: Sunday, October 6, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
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