Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks. Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, among others. Her poem "Good Bones" has gone viral-tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International,...See more

Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks. Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, among others. Her poem "Good Bones" has gone viral-tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. See less