ZOOM LINK: Craft and Conversation With Poet Maggie Smith Today!

Hi Friends!

In half an hour I’ll be on Zoom with poet and brilliant writer Maggie Smith, who wrote the line the internet couldn’t stop passing around: “This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.” Her poem “Good Bones” went viral in 2016 and never really stopped—read by Meryl Streep at Lincoln Center, translated into a dozen languages, called by PRI (now PRX) the official poem of that terrible year. She followed it with You Could Make This Place Beautiful, a New York Times bestselling memoir that turned the unraveling of her marriage into a meditation on rebuilding a life and a self. Beyond her own pages, Smith has spent two decades teaching other writers how to find their own—her book Dear Writer and her bestselling newsletter, For Dear Life, distill that craft into real, usable guidance. She’s the host of the poetry podcast The Slowdown, and living proof that a single honest sentence can outlast a news cycle. Her newest collection, A Suit or a Suitcase, is out now.

Come join us to talk about finding beauty and meaning in everyday life, writing through loss and change, and the craft of making art that endures. We'll explore how to bring poetry into your daily life—and even spend a little time writing together. The the Zoom link for today’s conversation is below. Bring your writing materials and I’ll see you there!