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Maggie Smith (poet) on art, motherhood, and life not making any sense.

“This is not a story about a good wife and a bad husband,” poet Maggie Smith starts out her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

It’s also not a tell-all, but maybe a tell-mine, she explains. You Could Make This Place Beautiful is in some ways an inventory of the foreshadowing events that lead up to her separation from her husband during the pand…