An Evening with Maggie Smith

Join renowned Ohio poet and best-selling author Maggie Smith for an evening of readings and conversation, followed by a book signing in the Wolfe Center Lobby. Maggie Smith is the author of seven award-winning books: Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017, Keep Moving, and Goldenrod. Her most recent poetry collection, A Suit or a Suitcase, was published by Washington Square Press in 2026. The title poem of Good Bones was called the "Official Poem of 2016" by Public Radio International and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Smith's poems have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, The Believer, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Best American Poetry, and on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary. A Pushcart Prize winner, Smith has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She also hosts the poetry podcast, The Slowdown. This event is free and open to the public.