Poet Maggie Smith is back with her eighth book — this time focused on writers and the act of creativity. Smith, a New York Times bestselling author whose poem “Good Bones” garnered her a sudden and ...

DEAR WRITER: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life. By Maggie Smith. Washington Square Press. 272 pages. $28.99. Good news, friends: you’ve got mail. As in old-school actual letters.

Back when Maggie Smith penned her poem “Good Bones,” which reached nearly 1 million readers after going viral in 2016, she was a mom working from home. She went on to become a New York Times ...

We've heard of viral photos. Viral videos. Viral tweets. But a viral poem? That hadn't really happened, in any earth-shattering way, until last summer. That's when a heart-rending poem by Ohio-based ...