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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The North Canton Public Library is so honored to host</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="https://maggiesmithpoet.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://maggiesmithpoet.com/&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw0nTp5_wb_hIYfLoVAtsAQW" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maggie
Smith</span></a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (the poet, not the actress, ha!) at our library on Monday, April 25 at 6:00PM. Even if you haven't heard of Maggie Smith specifically,
you may be familiar with some of her work.</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In
2016, her poem "</span><a href="https://www.tupelopress.org/product/good-bones-broadside/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tupelopress.org/product/good-bones-broadside/&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw2na1n2E0VgIL5UVtvQaY2R" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Good
Bones</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">" went viral internationally, receiving coverage in the </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/maggie-smith-and-the-poem-that-captured-the-mood-of-a-tumultuous-year/2016/12/22/a652b43c-c3a6-11e6-9578-0054287507db_story.html?utm_term=.b43af6e27fb6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/maggie-smith-and-the-poem-that-captured-the-mood-of-a-tumultuous-year/2016/12/22/a652b43c-c3a6-11e6-9578-0054287507db_story.html?utm_term%3D.b43af6e27fb6&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw0MU79nfBndb7hvi09Y9Hnr" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Washington
Post</span></a></em><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">,</em></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/17/poem-about-struggle-to-love-this-world-as-it-is-viral-maggie-smith-good-bones" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/17/poem-about-struggle-to-love-this-world-as-it-is-viral-maggie-smith-good-bones&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw1hWsUfQrXHOTVzJW6z_8cU" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Guardian</span></a></em><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">,
the </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/jo-cox-and-philip-larkins-the-mower-why-internet-mourners-turn-t/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/jo-cox-and-philip-larkins-the-mower-why-internet-mourners-turn-t/&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw2C7Z5B_jFVvlYbgDfZ_XLL" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Telegraph</span></a></em><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">, </em></span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/06/17/_good_bones_poet_maggie_smith_on_watching_her_poem_go_viral_after_the_orlando.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/06/17/_good_bones_poet_maggie_smith_on_watching_her_poem_go_viral_after_the_orlando.html&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw0asTdO_A7-Pf8ccQQypoRi" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Slate</span></a></em><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">,</em></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2016/06/18/maggie-smith-good-bones_n_10542662.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2016/06/18/maggie-smith-good-bones_n_10542662.html&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw13PmV2BXTVybXCT1yD2Xba" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">Huffington
Post Italia</em></span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><wbr></em></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, and elsewhere. To date it has been translated into nearly a dozen languages; interpreted
by a dance troupe in Chennai, India; and set to music by multiple composers. PRI (Public Radio International) called it “</span><a href="http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-31/official-poem-2016" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-31/official-poem-2016&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw2aVIy4Exq8wG51llZhP-7G" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">the
official poem of 2016</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.” In 2017, the poem was featured on an </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6507152/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt" rel="noopener" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6507152/?ref_%3Dttfc_fc_tt&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw0x3OdKSMXHZEiAtU-3bsBa" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">episode
of the CBS primetime drama </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Madam Secretary</i></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, also
called “Good Bones,” and was </span><a href="http://in%202017%20the%20poem%20was%20featured%20on%20an%20episode%20of%20the%20cbs%20primetime%20drama%20madam%20secretary%2C%20also%20called/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://in%25202017%2520the%2520poem%2520was%2520featured%2520on%2520an%2520episode%2520of%2520the%2520cbs%2520primetime%2520drama%2520madam%2520secretary%252C%2520also%2520called/&source=gmail&ust=1650577622150000&usg=AOvVaw30Ww6PTW9T0P4rcQXJaizx" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">read
by Meryl Streep at Lincoln Center</span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></font></font></div>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">She'll be performing a reading of her poems and will be taking
questions from the audience. Copies of her latest book,</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Goldenrod-Poems-Maggie-Smith/dp/1982185066" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Goldenrod-Poems-Maggie-Smith/dp/1982185066&source=gmail&ust=1650577622151000&usg=AOvVaw3A-zfFreYaAqhQ9LJPGL22" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204)"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Goldenrod</span></a></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">,
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<font color="#222222"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Thanks -- Happy National Poetry Month!</span></font></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Take care,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Andrea</span></div>
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