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Today's poem is "Tender Age"

from Cave Wall

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 (One Signal/Simon & Schuster, 2020). Her poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Poetry, The Believer, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the Paris Review. A freelance writer and editor, Smith is on the poetry faculty of Spalding University's MFA program and serves as an Editor at Large for the Kenyon Review.

Other poems by Maggie Smith in Verse Daily:
February 10, 2020:   "At the End of My Marriage, I Think of Something My Daughter Said about Trees" "When a tree is cut down, the sky's like..."
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 Cave Wall:

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Other poems from Cave Wall in Verse Daily:
August 12, 2019:   "The Stag" by Matthew Thorburn
March 31, 2017:   "Toward Repose" by Jane O. Wayne
March 30, 2017:   "In the Patio IV (Black Door)" by Jessica Jacobs
August 26, 2014:   "Sincerely, the Sky" by David Hernandez
October 25, 2012:   "Pier" by Michael Chitwood
October 24, 2012:   "There's this string" by Dan Albergotti
October 14, 2011:   "Assault on Precinct 13" by Andrew Kozma
May 19, 2011:   "Feast Day" "The town by the hundreds..."
May 18, 2011:   "Flight Log" by Jim Daniels
November 7, 2010:   "Arachne in Detention" by Saara Myrene Raappana
November 6, 2010:   "View from the High Road" by Lisa Fay Coutley
June 19, 2010:   "Waiting" by April Lindner
October 27, 2009:   "Folding the Fitted Sheet" by A.V. Christie
October 26, 2009:   "In England Again after Years Away" by Lois Williams
March 17, 2009:   "Threshold" by Kathryn Kirkpatrick
October 5, 2008:   "Progress" by Carrie Fountain
October 2, 2008:   "Goat" by C. J. Sage
September 30, 2008:   "The Sand Speaks" by Sandra Beasley
August 30, 2007:   "Reciprocity" by Carl Phillips
August 27, 2007:   "The Very Old Man" by Patrick Phillips
February 18, 2007:   "After the Affair" by Claudia Emerson
February 15, 2007:   "Surprising the Gods" by Dan Albergotti

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