Archive - For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

On Your One Wild and Precious Life

Happy Birthday, Mary Oliver

Sep 10, 2024 •

On Taking a Red Pen to Your Life

Nov 29, 2024 •

On Not Stopping

Feb 5, 2024 •

A Poem for This Day

On dark new beginnings

Nov 8, 2024 •

1:29

We don't have to be literary first responders

Nov 15, 2024 •

Pep Talk: On Hanging in There

(And I don't even like cats)

Mar 2 •

RECKLESS ABANDON!

Jul 28, 2024 •

A New, Unpublished Poem

Shared with gratitude

Apr 30, 2024 •

You're not for everyone

Aug 27, 2023 •

(Ok, not really)

Jul 3 •

Behind-the-Scenes Look: “A Suit or a Suitcase"

Annotation & Author’s Note

Feb 16 •

Poems that make you glad to be alive

more joy please & thank you

Mar 13, 2023 •

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