Maggie Smith with Nicky Beer — A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems
New York Times bestselling poet reads from her newest collection exploring how the self shifts through time, body, and memory.
Date & Time at 6:00 PM MST
Location Tattered Cover Colfax Denver, US
Organizer Tattered Cover
Why we picked this
Maggie Smith writes about selfhood with a precision that makes you feel understood. Denver poet Nicky Beer joins the conversation.
Maggie Smith’s poem “Good Bones” went viral after the Pulse nightclub shooting and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Her work sits at the intersection of personal reckoning and universal experience — motherhood, divorce, the strange persistence of hope when everything seems to be falling apart.
Her newest collection, “A Suit or a Suitcase,” explores the distinction between mind and body, and how identity shifts through time and circumstance. She’s joined by Denver poet Nicky Beer, making this a conversation rather than just a reading. At Tattered Cover Colfax.