Setting the Wild Angel Free

Poet and memoirist, Maggie Smith spins the material of her life into gold, whether she’s writing poems or crafting a memoir. The poem that took her work viral was written as she was going through her son’s pant’s pockets before tossing them in the wash. It’s so tempting to think we need to discover the big stories to write something worthy – we don’t. Our stories are right at our feet.