“I’ve had to set that limiting belief aside,” she says, “in order to write other kinds of books without feeling like an interloper.” Her new guidebook is called “Dear Writer.

I think the things that are essential for creating are also essential for living, says poet Maggie Smith. There’s a lot of overlap between making things and just being a person in the world.

Where do we live and with whom? What is our work? What do we spend our days doing? Maggie Smith's eight book, "Dear Writer," comes out on April 1. (Courtesy Simon & Schuster) Changing one of these ...

Poet Maggie Smith is back with her eighth book — this time focused on writers and the act of creativity. Smith, a New York Times bestselling author whose poem “Good Bones” garnered her a ...