The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison is a poetic exploration that delves into the darker, more visceral aspects of fairy tales, while also reflecting on the challenges and fears of motherhood. The book navigates the parallel worlds of fantasy and reality, drawing upon folk and fairy tales to create a narrative that is both enchanting and unsettling.
Based on the national bestseller 'Keep Moving', this journal offers a path to hope and renewal through daily reflections and exercises. Maggie Smith shares her personal journey of navigating loss and change, using writing as a tool for healing and growth. The journal invites readers to embrace change and cultivate a life they love.
Lamp of the Body is Maggie Smith's award-winning debut collection, published in 2005. It features poems that are spare, confident, and precise, offering a voice that explores the possibilities of poetic expression. The collection won the 2003 Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press.
In 'Keep Moving,' Maggie Smith shares her personal journey through divorce, single parenthood, postpartum depression, anxiety, loss, and grief. The book is a compilation of daily affirmations and essays that she initially posted on social media to help herself and others move forward through difficult times. It emphasizes the importance of kindness, hope, and transformation, encouraging readers to lean into change rather than avoiding it. The book is praised for its profound insights, empathy, and honesty, making it a valuable resource for anyone struggling with grief, change, and uncertainty.
Goldenrod is a collection of poems by Maggie Smith exploring themes of parenthood, love, memory, and solitude. The poems delve into the complexities of human experience, offering reflections on joy, loss, and the passage of time. Smith's lyrical style and poignant imagery create a powerful and moving reading experience. The collection invites readers to contemplate the present moment and the importance of human connection. Goldenrod is a testament to Smith's ability to capture the essence of life's multifaceted nature.
Good Bones is a poetry collection that delves into the complexities of the world, balancing the harsh realities with a hopeful vision for its potential beauty. Maggie Smith writes from the perspective of a mother, protecting her children from the world's ugliness while emphasizing the possibility of making the world a better place. The poems use vivid imagery and lyric language to explore themes of compassion, empathy, and honesty, offering a hopeful outlook on the future[2][3].
Maggie Smith is a poet and author of the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change, as well as Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Maggie’s poems and essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing in Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere.
In this episode, Maggie Smith joins Eric and Ginny for a conversation about her poetry and learning about ourselves through life’s experiences
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Maggie Smith and Ginny and I Discuss Poetry and Life Lessons and…
- Allowing feelings to come and waiting them out
- Her black and white thinking and working with her judgment
- Asking what’s really at stake and what is the cost of saying yes instead of no
- Keeping our inner critic in check
- How we can learn to parent ourselves
- The suffering that comes from judging our feelings that come up
- Her Keep Moving Journal with many writing prompts
- The lessons we can only learn from living through the tough times
- Her poem, Goldenrod
- Her desire to capture what she’s observing by writing it down
- How she processes and gets at things on paper
- Her poem, The Hum
- The importance of turning up the self-compassion and turning down the self-criticism
- Her poem, Wild
Maggie Smith links:
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Writing for Healing with Maggie Smith (2021)
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