"I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in." -- Margaret Smith
Margaret D. Smith (born 1958 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a poet, musician, and artist.
Her books of poetry and nonfiction include Barn Swallow (2006), The Seed in Me (2001), Made With Love (1998), A Holy Struggle: Unspoken Thoughts of Hopkins (1992, 1994), Journal Keeper (1992, 1993), and The Rose and the Pearl (1982).
Smith is a frequent guest lecturer on Gerard Manley Hopkins, poetry writing for children, journal keeping as a spiritual practice, and the combination of the arts, such as poetry and collage. Her work in collage and glass art has appeared in galleries in Seattle.
"I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.""If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."""My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?""Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.""The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently."