Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Written by Maggie Smith

Narrated by Maggie Smith

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

“A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR
“A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe
“Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal.” —People

For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life’s challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience.

When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Oct 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781797103211

Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

Reviews for Keep Moving

[Cynthia Gomez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

If you need a reminder to just keep moving. This is the book.

[Bryana · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely incredible, insightful, and inspiring book. Maggie Smith is dynamite in the greatest of ways and look forward to more of her work. Keep Moving!

[Dawn Fudd · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Listening to Maggie Smith's calming voice read her wisdom was so reassuring and invigorating.
Almost meditative, the melodic delivery is swell.
I want to tackle tasks and listen to her encouragement all morning!

[Tammy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

hit home with me. I loved it and I feel others will too!

[Britt Strange · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Truly refreshing and beautiful to read. Raw and emotional. Clear on perspective and perception.

[Aricka Rodgers · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved this book so very much, I’m going to purchase a physical copy as well!

[thewestwing-864351 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A nice, short book with good intentions. I read this in one sitting and I think I probably would have enjoyed it more had I picked it up from time to time and needed a motivational pick me up.

[wishanem · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Beautiful, inspirational statements that motivate and resonate with me. Heartfelt without ever feeling fake.

[beamis12 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

3.5 Although Smith is focusing on her own mental health after her divorce, there is much within that can apply to our current situation. We have all suffered losses this year whether it be loved ones, loss of freedom, loss of living without fear, loss of businesses, livlhoods We all share a common grief over the heartache and lack of control over what is happening in the world, in our own countries, states. Covid has upended our lives in unprecedented ways, creating a new normal but one not easily excepted.I don't read many self help books, find much in them that is just pure common sense. Daily aspirations have never worked for me, though I know they have helped others. While this book does contain the usual common sense motivations, there are several that stood out for me."Trust that the present moment--however difficult, however different from what you imagined--has something to teach you""Stop thinking of change as interruption to a story; the story was always going to change, many times. It was never guaranteed. In fact, only change is guaranteed. Expect it today, and from now on?"ARC from Edelweiss.