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CATEGORIES:Writers LIVE!,Virtual Event,Poetry
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distill
 s creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fa
 ns of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.\n\n \n\
 nDrawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling S
 ubstack newsletter\, For Dear Life\, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity in
 to ten essential elements: attention\, wonder\, vision\, play\, surprise\, 
 vulnerability\, restlessness\, tenacity\, connection\, and hope. Each eleme
 nt is explored through short\, inspiring\, and craft-focused essays\, follo
 wed by generative writing prompts. Dear Writer provides tools that artists 
 of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carr
 y with them into all genres and all areas of life.\n\n \n\nMaggie Smith wil
 l be joined in conversation by writer Betsy Boyd and the program will inclu
 de a brief performance by multidisciplinary artist Katherine Fahey. \n\n \n
 \nAbout the Author: \n\nMaggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times be
 stselling author of eight books of poetry and prose\, including You Could M
 ake This Place Beautiful\, Good Bones\, Goldenrod\, Keep Moving\, and My Th
 oughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from t
 he National Endowment for the Arts\, Smith has also received a Pushcart Pri
 ze\, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets\, th
 e Sustainable Arts Foundation\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Greater Columbu
 s Arts Council\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has bee
 n widely published\, appearing in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The N
 ation\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Best American Poetry\, and 
 more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.\n\n \n\nAbout th
 e Moderator: \n\nBetsy Boyd is a fiction writer\, journalist\, and essayist
 . She directs the Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program at the U
 niversity of Baltimore and is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Counci
 l award\, an Elliot Coleman Writing Fellowship\, a James A. Michener Fellow
 ship and residencies through Fundación Valparaíso\, the Alfred and Trafford
  Klots International Program for Artists and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Cent
 er for the Arts. Betsy’s fiction has been published in Kenyon Review\, Stor
 yQuarterly\, Shenandoah\, at American Short Fiction\, Hunger Mountain\, Ecl
 ectica\, and elsewhere. Her short story “Scarecrow” received a Pushcart Pri
 ze.\n\n \n\nAbout the Peformer: \n\nKatherine Fahey is a multidisciplinary 
 artist who combines the crafts of storytelling\, papercutting\, and shadow 
 puppetry. Her pieces are either based on stories or songs. Some of Katherin
 e’s work is based on folk tales as far reaching as the southern swamps of L
 ouisiana to the northern reaches of Inuit Quebec. Others are personal stori
 es from her childhood in Virginia and the streets of her longtime home of B
 altimore.  Katherine’s work is usually in the form of a crankie\, a bygone 
 form of visual performance\, involving a cranked scroll of artwork in a box
 ..  Her crankies have in the past been shared live\, in darkened space\, wh
 ich creates a warm feeling of sitting around the fireside. \n\n \n\nAccompa
 nying Katherine will be puppeteer and foley artist\, and visionary artist\,
  Dan Van Allen.\n\n \n\nAbout the Program: \n\nTo attend in person please r
 egister here. Doors will open to registered attendees at 6 pm. A local book
 seller will be on-site and have books available for purchase.Free parking v
 ouchers are available to program attendees who park at the Franklin Street 
 Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) after 4pm.  Ask Pratt event staff for your p
 arking voucher prior to or after the program. This free event will be prese
 nted in-person and virtually.
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LOCATION:Central Library\, Wheeler Auditorium 
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SUMMARY:Maggie Smith: "Dear Writer"
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