Two poets pen memoirs about the relationships that shaped their writing
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Why Fathers Cry at Night
Maggie Smith's new memoir is called You Could Make This Place Beautiful. She talks about how she came out the other side of her book with a "new sense of sort of fortitude" Poet Kwame Alexander just wanted to write some love poems, but life got in the way. Here he is with Michelle Martin on NPR's Morning Edition.
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