![]() Her clear, authentic voice squarely hit home, leading the poem to go viral then and several times afterward when Americans were confronted with senseless violence. ![]() In just 17 lines, Smith expressed concern for her young daughter and son as well as her own quandary as a mother in a way that resonated with parents everywhere. If the title sounds familiar, you may remember it as the last line of Smith’s best-known poem “Good Bones,” published in June 2016, the same week a gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 people and wounding 53. ![]() Her book You Could Make This Place Beautiful, released this month and now a New York Times bestseller, is a collection of nearly 300 vignettes that give us a window into Smith’s life as she navigated the end of her marriage, became a single mom and evolved to new ways of thinking and being in the world. It’s as if poet and memoirist Maggie Smith (MFA ’03, Department of English) knows what we need when we need it. ![]()
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