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Two poets pen memoirs about the relationships that shaped their writing

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" went viral. It electrified her writing career, and it changed her life in a multitude of other ways as well. She writes all about that, what happened before and after, in her new memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

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