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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Maggie Smith is the author of, most recently, Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017) and The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), winner of the Dorset Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New York Times, The Best American Poetry 2017, Ploughshares, Tin House, AGNI, and elsewhere. In 2016 her poem "Good Bones" went viral internationally and was called the "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International. Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She lives and writes in Ohio.
Also by Maggie Smith:
Good Bones
The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison
Lamp of the Body
Disasterology
The List of Dangers
Ohio Cento
What looks like nostalgia
arrives, year after year, humble and obedient
and always in his threadbare lapel.
Looks like a troublemaker to me.
Let's hold Ohio close to our chests
like an absurd mantra, or make up songs
about the moon's whole gothic thing or how
what shines is a thought —
Memorize me. Pass me on.
What looks like nostalgia
is actual magic,
its flume of steam. The material world is always
giving me the cutthroat sign,
but there was a shore covered in gray tufts.
I can remember the morning.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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