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Today's poem is "At the End of My Marriage, I Think of Something My Daughter Said about Trees"

from Iron Horse Literary Review

Maggie Smith is the author of four books, most recently Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017) and the forthcoming Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (Simon & Schuster, May 2020). Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Poetry, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review.

Other poems by Maggie Smith in Verse Daily:
July 20, 2017:   "Rain, New Year's Eve" "The rain is a broken piano..."
July 12, 2017:   "Goldenrod" "I'm no botanist. If you're the color of sulfur..."
March 28, 2017:   "Love Poem" "What can I give you? You have plenty..."
December 12, 2008:   "When Worlds Collide (1951)" "If Dr. Bronson's calculations prove to be correct..."

Books by Maggie Smith:

Other poems on the web by Maggie Smith:
Eleven poems
Four poems
"Bride"
Two poems
"Triptych"
"Installation"
Seven poems
"The Train Book, I Think of Lisa"
"Seven Disappointments (2)"
"Let's Not Begin"
Three poems
"Mew Year Sestina"
"Stitches"
"Doppelganger"
Three poems

Maggie Smith's Website.

Maggie Smith According to Wikipedia.

Maggie Smith on Twitter.

About Iron Horse Literary Review:

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Poetry Editor: Geffrey Davis


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