I don't want to be giving too much of their interior lives or interior experiences away. I'm always kind of weighing these things like stones in my hands and thinking okay is this okay? Do I feel okay with this? And they trust me. It's not new at all. They come to readings, they know what I do for my work. The public nature of your career it's very different of how we think about poets right. Talk about that idea of being being public and you thinking because then you have all his Instagram.
Relationships are hard. When do you know it’s time to marry? When do you know it’s time to break up? We get inside those questions with Kara, Nayeema and our guest today: Maggie Smith. The poet’s viral 2016 poem “Good Bones” was accompanied by professional success, and cracks in her personal life. Smith talks about that fallout, documented in her new memoir “This Place Could be Beautiful” – and whether life is more beautiful on the other side.
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