Maggie Smith: A Conversation with Our Own Minds

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 7 a.m.

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Maggie Smith approaches poems as a poet\\u2019s best teacher in this episode, calling poems \\u201ca conversation we have with our own minds.\\u201d Smith shares a poem by Donald Hall that shaped her early days of writing (\\u201cGold\\u201d), a Lynn Emanuel poem that she prizes for its perfection of word choice (\\u201cStone Soup\\u201d), and a prose poem by Jenny Boully that engages the listener through its forward momentum (\\u201cTether\\u201d). Smith closes by reading her poem \\u201cOhio Cento.\\u201d\\xa0

Listen to the full recordings of Hall, Emanuel, and Boully reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Donald Hall (1972)
Lynn Emanuel (1993)
Jenny Boully (2013)

Listen to a 2018 reading by Maggie Smith on Voca.

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