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maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
The other one. Poet & NYT bestselling author. Next 📚: DEAR WRITER (April 2025), THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT (Sept 2025), A SUIT OR A SUITCASE (March 2026).
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Love this from the amazing @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

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Top five lifetime shows for sure. Kim Deal in Dayton last night. ❤️🦩

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Announcing the Judge for the 2025 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry: @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 1. More information below!

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My 16yo daughter is serenading me with karaoke this morning before school. First Blondie, then Nancy Sinatra. I can’t stop laughing. “Start walking...”👢👢

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Last night’s medicine.✨ Destroyer & Father John Misty with two of my favorite humans.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Got my free ticket to see @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social at my favorite Baltimore institution, the Enoch Pratt Library, in April. Yay!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

What keeps me sane as the world unravels? The poetry of @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, so many others. Contra Auden, poetry makes many things happen, and does more than survive, especially in this time.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Flying to Austin to record a podcast next month & just found out I’ll be there during SXSW! I hope to have time to catch a band or two the evening of March 11, so if you have recs, I’m all ears.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Podrías hacer de esto algo bonito. Editorial Libros del Acantilado.

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Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Thank you @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for a terrific couple of weeks hosting @slowdownshow.org. Finishing with a Sharon Olds ode? Doesn’t get much better than that. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

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“Today’s poem is an ode, a poem of praise or celebration. It reminds me that attention is a form of love. If you love the world, give it the gift of your attention,” shares guest host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social. Read “Wind Ode” by Sharon Olds (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social): bit.ly/3Q8hOs7

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🥹🩷😎👙☀️🙏

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Happy Birthday to our very special guest host, Maggie Smith!

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This is 48.🖤 Here’s to another year of making art, taking beautiful risks, loving fiercely, and being open to whatever life floats into my hands. How lucky we are, even on the hardest days, to all be here together, alive on this planet, at the same time. Love, Maggie

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There is so much to love and remember in “Washing the Elephant” by Barbara Ras read by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social at @slowdownshow.org today. It’s an elephant-size poem. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

“Today’s poem walloped me with its deep wisdom about childhood, memory, and love,” shares guest host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode. Read “Washing the Elephant” by Barbara Ras (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social): bit.ly/3CKMjBr

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I have never been so embarrassed to be an American in all my life and that includes the Freedom Fries era

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So, so grateful to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and @slowdownshow.org for featuring this poem today—at a time when wonder is often feeling particularly remote— and especially for mentioning it in the same breath as Emily Dickinson, queen of my heart:

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“This poem is about moving to a new place and learning the names for what she finds there. But it’s also about wonder and possibility. Like all living creatures, we adapt to our surroundings. We find new ways to thrive,” shares guest host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode.

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