Both of your books kind of started on Twitter in a lot of ways. I didn't even know I was writing a book. And the memoir sort of lives completely outside of it although some of the things I mentioned like a tweet inspiring a song or when I found out that Meryl Streep was reading my poem at Lincoln Center was on Twitter. Does it change the way you create because you have all this incoming? You know I don't know I guess in some ways if you think about like stimuli sort of like that you're able to collage together and yet I still write longhand first.
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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