Poetry Reading: Maggie Smith

The Katonah Poetry Series is pleased to present poet Maggie Smith’s deeply humane voice, by turn both playful and profound. Maggie 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 poemGood Bonesthat it went viral in 2016 and was translated into nearly a dozen languages. Public Radio International dubbed Good Bones“the official poem of 2016.”

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). Smith is also the author of three prizewinning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse Press, 2016); The List of Dangers (Kent State/Wick Poetry Series, 2010); and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poems have been widely published and anthologized, appearing in Best American Poetry,The New York Times, Tin House, The Paris Review, andPloughshares, among others. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, the Washington Post, on the Poetry Foundation website, and elsewhere.

For further information and to read our exclusive KPS poet interviews, conducted by poet Ann van Buren, please visit www.katonahpoetry.com.