You Could Make This Place Beautiful is probably your most famous poem. It was not going to be a poem. I could not do that kind of narrative work and processing or thinking back or reckoning with the past, he says. "I honestly hope every idea that comes to me complies"
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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