What Happened to You?

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On any given day, i'm guessing that you can look into your twitterfeed and find something tragic. It's a very li thing, isn't it, to have a i soing that people lean on in hard times? On one hand, like, i am witredy, like, genuinely happy to help, you know, on a really basic level. But at the same time, i don't know what to say. No, i neve oit. So i'm so sorry for your loss. Someoof gbea s triht o.

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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