What Kind of Reading Do You Have?

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i tend to read mostly m poetry, and then lik right behind that, memoir and and essays, and then behind that, fiction. So i think my reading is actually opposite to most, at least americans, which as most people read novels. And so i kind of read in reversed. And poetry, for me, s is always the go to. I love being able to dip in to a book, and i can keep it on my bedside table or i have stacks of them just all over my house.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Maggie Smith, poet, writer and editor from Columbus, Ohio.

You may know Maggie's tremendous work via her poem 'Good Bones', which she has a difficult relationship with. The poem is often referenced in times of crisis, which she thinks of as a 'disaster barometer' - she break downs this fascinating dissonance in her chat with Katherine, which reaches a wide range of topics including metpahor, the 'tasting' approach to culture, her own range of published works, America's history of being unsafe for many, being honest with children, how younger people understand pronouns so well, the divorce whisperer, prose, how the content dictates the container, the act of physically writing on paper, seasons and the beauty in the decay of Fall. So much to inspire and invigorate. A delight.

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