Ep. 5 - Fear

Poem: What I Carried by Maggie Smith 

Music: Patrick Derdall 

*Headphones recommended  

"What I Carried" from Good Bones, Tupelo Press, copyright 2017 Maggie Smith. Used with permission.

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. 

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