Events

[LIT] Can a poem “go viral”? Last year, Maggie Smith’s simple 17-line gesture towards the uncertainty of humanity’s immediate future sure did. The poem, “Good Bones,” which walks through depressing truths the author tries to shield from her children in her effort to “sell them the world” was picked up by media far and wide and translated into almost a dozen languages. A dance troupe in India interpreted the poem in a performance and Ohio State University estimated that one million people had read the poem only months after it was published. On Saturday, August 12 you can be one of a 100 or so people to hear Maggie Smith perform at the Silo City Reading Series along with Annette Daniels Taylor, an interdisciplinary poet and artist. And did we say dance troupe? Also performing are dancer Nancy Hughes and experimental composer Bean Friend, who last year recorded an ambient piano album inside one of the silos called The Moving Decade.