"Today's poem is a kind of love poem — to a beloved tree, and to the sense of home it created," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read "Hackberry" by Cecily Parks, from THE SEEDS (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social): bit.ly/4hLEqNK

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"Once upon a time, I was a new mother with a baby girl in my arms, and I was her whole world," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read "A toast to something beautiful flapping in the wind" by J. Hope Stein and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4haVYlb

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"To make things that don't exist yet ... and to send them out into the world is wildly, impractically, gorgeously hopeful," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read "The plum you're going to eat next summer” by @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4yCIF45

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“Today’s poem is from a collection of prose poems that chronicles a woman’s journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder, from childhood into adulthood," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read “Protection Spell Jar" by Cynthia Marie Hoffman: bit.ly/3V1R4iN

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“Today’s poem is by one of my favorite Kentucky writers, a fellow dog person,” host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today’s encore episode. Read “For You Who Have Loved Old Dogs" by @silashouse.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4gPxPjK

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