Maggie Smith will be moderating and participating in a panel reading at the 2017 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Washington, DC, with poets Dena Rash Guzman, Meghan Privitello, and Leah Umansky: It’s the End of the World As She Knows It: Apocalypse Poetry by Women. She will also be on a panel with Meghan Daum, Cade Leebron, Kathryn Rhett, and moderator/organizer Michelle Herman: Mommy Dearest/Daughter Darling: Putting Words in Her Mouth.