I'm a gregarious introvert. I mean, really my ambivalence about the poem has to do well. My marriage kind of wasn't quite the same after the poem went viral. It was like this was really good news for me as a writer, but it was really complicated news forme as a person living in this house. The poem itself is a disaster barometer, which I didn't know when writing it, that it would be the sort of bad signal for bad things happening. But you know, I wrote the- Things fall apart. Like I didn'tknow.
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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