![]() Less than five months later, the spotlight found “Good Bones” again, this time in the wake of the 2016 U.S. Published just days after the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida (the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a single gunman in the United States at the time), the poem went viral immediately and internationally. ![]() ![]() Take “Good Bones,” a poem by MFA alumna and former visiting faculty member Maggie Smith. Can anyone regardless of age, gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, time or place find within a piece of art some kernel of truth, a shard of mirrored glass that shows their own reflection? Can they step away from even the most abstract or fantastical creation and feel that they are seen, heard, understood? One possible metric by which to measure an artist’s success is the universality of their work. ![]()
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