“Before Meryl Streep read ‘Good Bones’ at Lincoln Center, before the poem was featured on an episode of Madam Secretary, before it went viral and was read by millions of people, before it was published by the online journal Waxwing, ‘Good Bones’ was rejected by a few other magazines. I sent the poem out to a few print journals I admired, and it was rejected by all of them.” - revisiting an excerpt of Maggie Smith’s wonderful Dear Writer, a chapter on rejection. Plus, a video interview with her in the middle.