I Love Your Poems

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I particularly enjoy reading your poetry, too, because it has a real sense of place. Do something to day, however small, to light up your own life, or shine on some one else. The light will reach you too. And i think future me is really glad i ordered six pints of ice cream to be delivered last week. It never feels good in the long run to have done the wrong thing. I don't always like it, because sometimes it's really satisfying to be reactive. But before, i wouldn't have been able to see that. You've got another of your little notes to yourself that i really liked. Push hope from theory into practice.

Maggie Smith is a poet whose work has been widely published, anthologized, and has appeared in Best American Poetry, the New York Times, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her latest book, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change, a collection of essays and quotes, is a national bestseller.

In this episode, Maggie and Eric discuss this new book and how for her, writing poetry is having a conversation with herself, problem solving, and healing on paper.

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In This Interview, Maggie Smith and I discuss Writing for Healing and…

Her book, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
The dark time in her life that gave birth to her growth
How hope is imaginative and necessary if you’re to come out of difficulty
The role of endurance in healing
Gratitude as a practice even in the darkest times
That big life changes are often identity issues that cause us to ask “who am I now?”
Another meaning to the phrase “it’s always something!”
The reality that we pave the path of the future one step at a time
Her experience as a recovering pessimist
The difference between her poetry and her essays
The role of setting in her poetry
How it never feels good in the long run to have done the wrong thing
Post Traumatic Growth

Maggie Smith Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Maggie Smith on Writing for Healing, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

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