Reimagine Candlelight Vigil
Maggie Smith will read and speak about grief, hope, and resilience during Reimagine’s monthly virtual gathering.

Virtual Reading with Kelli Russell Agodon
Maggie Smith will read and be in conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon to celebrate the release of Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides. The event is hosted by Third Place Books in Seattle, WA.

Virtual Event with Todd Boss
Maggie Smith will be in conversation with Todd Boss at Gramercy Books to celebrate the release of Boss’s Someday the Plan of a Town.

Virtual Event with Ada Limón at DMACC in Des Moines, Iowa
Maggie Smith will read and be in conversation with poet Ada Limón as part of the Des Moines Area Community College Celebration of the Literary Arts.

Virtual Event with the #THEBOOKCHAT Community
Maggie Smith will read from KEEP MOVING, a #THEBOOKCHAT selection, and answer questions from the community of educators.

Ann W. Trombadore Women & Leadership Symposium
Maggie Smith will give the keynote address and sign books for conference attendees at Bethany College.

Hixon Dance Performs “A Harrowing World”
Hixon Dance has created a performance incorporating six of Maggie Smith’s poems with modern dance and live music. The show runs March 25-27 at Columbus Dance Theatre. Tickets available here.

“Books That Changed My Life” Virtual Event with Elizabeth Gilbert
From the Manhattan JCC website: “Join us for an intimate conversation between prolific writers Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love, City of Girls) and Maggie Smith (Good Bones, Goldenrod) inspired by Gilbert’s bestselling book Big Magic, a book that changed Smith’s life.” Tickets are available here.

In-Person Event with Barbara Fant
Maggie Smith will be in conversation with Barbara Fant at the Bexley Public Library to celebrate the release of Fant’s Mouths of Garden. The event is free and open to the public.

International Women’s Writers Guild Reading
Maggie Smith will give a virtual reading and answer attendee questions to celebrate National Poetry Month.

University of Arkansas and Fayetteville Public Library True Lit Festival
Maggie Smith will be the Distinguished Reader at the Fayetteville Public Library True Lit Festival. She will give a public reading, answer audience questions, and meet with MFA students. Find more information here.

Bridgewater State University Reading
Maggie Smith will give a virtual reading and answer questions in the Visiting Author Series at Bridgewater State University. More information to come.

North Canton Public Library
In honor of National Poetry Month, Maggie Smith will give a free public reading and book signing at the North Canton Public Library.

Virtual Reading with Barbara Ras
Maggie Smith will read with poet Barbara Ras as part of the Cafe Muse Literary Salon. More information to come.

Virtual Event with Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Maggie Smith will be in conversation with Kerri ní Dochartaigh to celebrate the release of Thin Places. This free online event, hosted by Harvard Book Store, begins at 12:30pm ET. 

Poetry Workship in Paris
Maggie Smith, poetry faculty at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, will teach the MFA poetry workshop during the 2022 summer residency in Paris, France.

In-Person Event with David Baker
Maggie Smith will be in conversation with David Baker at the Gramercy Books to celebrate the release of Baker’s Whale Fall. More information to come.

Planned Parenthood
Maggie Smith will give a reading and participate in a moderated Q&A with Iris E. Harvey, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Maggie Smith will give a reading and participate in a moderated Q&A. Details available here.

Phoenix Middle School
Maggie Smith will serve as a visiting writer at Phoenix Middle School in Worthington, Ohio. Each virtual visit includes a reading, Q&A with students and teachers, and a writing activity.

Jeannine Ouelette Book Launch
To celebrate author Jeannine Ouellette’s memoir The Part That Burns (Split Lip Press), Maggie Smith will read and be in conversation with Jeannine Ouellette and Michele Filgate, moderated by Shelia O’Connor, with music by Brianna Lane.  Details available here.

Loft Literary Center
Maggie Smith will be teaching a 3-hour virtual workshop for the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis: Making & Breaking the Line: A Free Verse Poetry Workshop. Details available here.

Georgia Tech Poetry Workshop
Maggie Smith will be teaching a virtual poetry workshop. Details to come.

Wexner Center for the Arts
Maggie Smith will give a reading, musician Jerry DeCicca will play songs, and the two will participate in a moderated discussion as part of this virtual event for Wexner Center donors.

Georgia Tech Poetry Reading 
Maggie Smith will give a virtual reading with Arthur Sze and Bruce McEver. Details to come.

Indiana University Writers’ Conference
Maggie Smith is on the faculty of the 2021 IUWC, which is virtual this year. She will teach a daily workshop, give a reading, and participate in a panel discussion. Details available here.

Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO
Maggie Smith in conversation with Dana Levin. Virtual event at 5:30PM CT/6:30PM ET. LINK

Politics and Prose, Washington, DC
Maggie Smith in conversation with Taylor Mali. Virtual event at 6:00PM ET. LINK

University Bookstore, Seattle, WA
Maggie Smith in conversation with Ruth Dickey. Virtual event at 8:00PM ET. LINK

Tattered Cover, Denver, CO
Maggie Smith in conversation with Carrie Fountain. Virtual event at 5:00PM MT/7:00PM ET. LINK

Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX
Maggie Smith in conversation with Rhett Miller (Old 97s). Virtual event at 7:00PM CT/8:00PM ET. LINK

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN
Maggie Smith in conversation with Alison McGhee. Virtual event at 7:00PM CT/8:00PM ET. LINK

Gramercy Books, Bexley, OH
Maggie Smith in conversation with David Baker. Hybrid event–limited in-person tickets plus live Zoom webinar–at 7:00PM ET. LINK

Book Passage, San Francisco, CA
Maggie Smith in conversation with Matthew Caws (Nada Surf). Virtual event at 5:30PM PT/8:30PM ET. LINK

Porter Square Books, Boston, MA
Maggie Smith in conversation with Chely Wright. Virtual event at 7:00PM ET. LINK

Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA
Maggie Smith in conversation with Victoria Chang. Virtual event at 5:30 PM PT/8:30PM ET.  LINK

Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center, VT
Maggie Smith in conversation with Kate Baer. Virtual event at 7:00PM ET. LINK

Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, Pittsburgh, PA
Maggie Smith in conversation with Tiana Clark. Virtual event. LINK

Fall for the Book, Fairfax, VA
Maggie Smith in conversation with Victoria Chang. Virtual event at 7:00PM ET.  Link to come.

Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Maggie Smith will be on the workshop faculty of the 2020 Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Details available here.

Merrill Poet at the Lawrenceville School
Maggie Smith will be the 2020 James Merrill Poet at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ. Details to come.

Grit & Grace: 43rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
Maggie Smith will give a reading as part of the Old Dominion University Literary Festival. Virtual event on Zoom from 7 to 8pm EST. Details available here.

Literati Bookstore in Partnership with the Ann Arbor District Library (Ann Arbor, MI)
Maggie Smith in conversation with Molly Spencer, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 7 to 8pm EST. Details available here.

Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY)
Maggie Smith in conversation with Rebecca Soffer, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 7 to 8pm EST. Details available here.

Gramercy Books (Bexley, OH)
Maggie Smith in conversation with Saeed Jones, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 7 to 8pm EST. Details available here.

Books and Books (Coral Gables, FL)
Maggie Smith in conversation with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 4 to 5pm EST. Details available here.

Family Action Network (Chicago, IL)
Maggie Smith in conversation with Megan Stielstra, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 8 to 9pm EST. Details and registration available here.

Cuyahoga County Public Library (Cleveland, OH)
Maggie Smith in conversation with Dave Lucas, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 7 to 8pm EST. Details available here.

White Whale Books (Pittsburgh, PA)
Maggie Smith in conversation with Maggie Jones, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 7 to 8pm EST. Details available here.

Old Town Books (Alexandria VA)
Maggie Smith and Christie Tate in conversation, followed by audience Q&A . Virtual event on Zoom from 10 to 11am EST. Details to come.

Pee Dee Fiction & Poetry Festival
Maggie Smith will be a featured author at the 2019 Pee Dee Fiction & Poetry Festival in Florence, South Carolina. Details to come.

Spalding University Fall MFA Residency
Maggie Smith will deliver a craft talk, participate in a panel discussion, and give a reading at Spalding University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing in Louisville, KY. Details to come.

Katonah Poetry Series
Maggie Smith will will give a reading in the Katonah Poetry Series in Katonah, NY. Details to come.

Ashland University
Maggie Smith will give a reading at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. Details to come.

Chautauqua Institution
Maggie Smith will give a reading and teach a weeklong poetry workshop at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Details to come.

Brews + Prose
Maggie Smith will read at the Brews + Prose Anniversary Reading at Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland, Ohio. Details available here.

AWP Conference
Maggie Smith will attend the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Portland, Oregon. Details and schedule to come.

Celebration of Literary Arts
Maggie Smith will give two readings with Jericho Brown, Jamel Brinkley, and Dorothy Allison, and teach a student workshop at the Des Moines Area Community College as part of the 2019 Celebration of Literary Arts. Details and schedule available here.

Cleveland Public Library
Maggie Smith will give a reading at the Cleveland Public Library (325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH) at noon, followed by a book signing. Details to come.

University of Arizona Poetry Center
Maggie Smith will be the Fall 2018 Poet in Residence at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. While in Tucson, she will give a public reading on Thursday, November 29, followed by a Q&A and book signing. She will give a craft talk on Thursday, December 6.

Writers Block Festival Keynote
Maggie Smith will give the closing keynote reading at the University of Louisville’s Writers Block Festival in Louisville, KY.  Details to come.

Spalding University MFA
Maggie Smith will visit the low residency MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. Details to come.

Tribute to Scott Hutchison
Maggie Smith will read with Francis Daulerio at Two Dollar Radio HQ in Columbus, Ohio, as a tribute to Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison. Proceeds will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Details available here.

Reading with Ruth Awad & Anna Rose Welch
Maggie Smith will read with Ruth Awad and Anna Roth Welch at Two Dollar Radio HQ in Columbus, Ohio. Details available here.

Water~Stone Review Summer Writing Workshop
Maggie Smith will be on the faculty of the Water~Stone Review Summer Writing Workshop at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. Workshop descriptions and other details available here.

Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop
Maggie Smith will give a reading at the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop at Kenyon College in Gambier OH. The reading, at 7:00pm in Brandi Recital Hall, will be followed by a book signing at the Kenyon College Bookstore.

Get Lit! Festival
Maggie Smith will be a featured author at the 2018 Get Lit! Festival at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, WA. Details available here.

Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series
Maggie Smith will give a public reading on Thursday evening, April 19, and will visit a creative writing class on Friday, April 20, at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN. Details available here.

GVSU Writers Series
Maggie Smith will give a craft talk and public reading at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. Details available here.

Quarter Given
Maggie Smith will give an intimate reading of brand-new work at Art of Republic in the Short North Arts District, Columbus, OH. Details available here.

Denison University
Maggie Smith will read in the Beck Series at Denison University with fellow Ohio poets Kathy Fagan and Michael J. Rosen on Wednesday, April 4 at 8:00PM. Details available here.

Northampton Community College
Maggie Smith will read at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA. Details available here.

Reading at the Dairy Barn Arts Center
Maggie Smith will read as part of the Spoken & Heard Series at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, OH. Details available here.

2018 AWP Conference
Maggie Smith will be a featured presenter at the 2018 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Tampa, FL. Full conference details available here.

Thurs. March 8: Offsite Reading with Tim Seibles, Dinty W. Moore, and others, sponsored by Sweet: A Literary Confection, Saw Palm, and Diagram. 6:30-8:00 pm at Oxford Exchange (420 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602). Details available here.

Thurs. March 8: Offsite Reading with Hieu Minh Nguyen, Paige Lewis, and many others, sponsored by The Adroit Journal, 32 Poems, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, and Quarterly West. 7:30-10:30 pm at Jackson’s Bistro. Details to come.

Fri. March 9: A Reading and Conversation with Ishion Hutchinson, Virgil Suarez, and Maggie Smith, followed by a book signing. Ballroom A&B Tampa Convention Center 8:30-10pm.

Sat. March 10: GOOD BONES signing at the Blue Flower Arts book fair booth, 11am to noon.

Sat. March 10: “Why (Not) Say What Happened? On Writing Confessional Poetry.” Panel with Natalie Diaz, Jericho Brown, Rachel Mennies, and Geffrey Davis, Room 13 Tampa Convention Center, 1:20-2:45pm.

Ripon College Visiting Writer Series
Maggie Smith will visit Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where she will visit a poetry workshop and give a free public reading. Reading details available here and here.

Writer in Residence, UCA
Maggie Smith will visit the University of Central Arkansas, where she will teach a graduate masterclass, give a craft talk to undergraduates, and give a free public reading.

Piper Center Distinguished Visiting Writer
Maggie Smith will be a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing in Tempe, Arizona. Details available here.

Two Dollar Radio HQ 
Maggie Smith will be reading with poet Ruth Awad at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. Details available here.