I love this poem. Because my sons, I'm always talking about death with my sons. My dad died when I was little. So it's important part of my life is thinking about death. But talk about writing that about your kid, about you're talking about your daughter. Yeah. It took me a year to finally write another poem after having a trial because I thought, I don't know how to do this anymore. "Because I made you. I made you and I brought you here and you didn't ask to be brought here"
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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