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Small Shoes | Poem by Maggie Smith | Film by Kate Dolan

“If there are fewer stars now / than when I was a child, / I can’t say / which are missing, / who was the last to see them.” Maggie Smith’s poem “Small Shoes” is adapted into a short film by director Kate Dolan for Motionpoems. Smith is the author of the poetry collection Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), the title poem of which went viral on social media after it was first published online in the literary journal Waxwing.

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Maggie Smith
Small Shoes
Good Bones
Tupelo Press
2017
Kate Dolan
Motionpoems
Rise Up Review
short film
2018

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