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Meet Author and Poet Maggie Smith
2023-05-08 19:00:00 2023-05-08 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author and Poet Maggie Smith Join us when author and poet Maggie Smith visits to discuss her latest memoir, <i>You Could Make This Place Beautiful</i>. Beachwood Branch - Beachwood Meeting Room (Auditorium) (84)

Monday, May 08
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-05-08 19:00:00 2023-05-08 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author and Poet Maggie Smith Join us when author and poet Maggie Smith visits to discuss her latest memoir, <i>You Could Make This Place Beautiful</i>. Beachwood Branch - Beachwood Meeting Room (Auditorium) (84)

Beachwood Branch

Beachwood Meeting Room (Auditorium) (84)

Join us when author and poet Maggie Smith visits to discuss her latest memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

About the author:

Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and more. 

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy.

Registration for this event is FREE. VIP tickets are also available for purchase.

Each VIP ticket ($30) includes:

  • A copy of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
  • VIP seating at the event
  • Signing line priority
  • A donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation

    CLICK HERE to purchase VIP tickets


Additional books will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.

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