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Mallory Smart

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Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, and podcaster.

She is the author of the novel, "The Only Living Girl In Chicago" from Trident Press, the poetry collection, " I Want To Feel Happy But I Only Feel__" from Expat Press, the experimental hybrid short story collection," THE WRITER," the poetry chapbook, "I'm AntiSocial, Coffee Never Lies" from Bottlecap Press and the weird chapbook, "Hipster Idiot" from Ghost City Press.

At the age of 23, she founded Maudlin House.

When she is not writing or editing, she hosts the podcast, Textual Healing. Mallory Smart is also the co-host of the horror podcast, That Horrorcast.


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Mallory Smart Like a junkie looking for a new fix, I have already scampered on to my next poetry project called "People Die, But Corpses Can Only Vote In Chicago". …moreLike a junkie looking for a new fix, I have already scampered on to my next poetry project called "People Die, But Corpses Can Only Vote In Chicago". It should be out in early 2015!(less)
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“Having experimented in both poetry and prose, I can say that the two are such loaded words. But neither are quite as weighted as the word “poet”. I think some people can write poetry their whole lives, and never truly BE a “poet”. Whereas I see poets in the wanderers I encounter, the baristas who serve me, and the truckers I, so, love to talk to.To be a poet in my humble opinion is to be a muse of the human experience. I love that I love the idea, that anything can be poetry, it can’t be defined. It’s a feeling, like punk rock. I’m not one for form or structure. I say if your words are visceral and honest, it’s poetry. If you see the beauty of the world and humanity, and you preach it, you’re a poet.”
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“I was packed tightly into this old van, with three other people that I didn’t really know, with backpack/ garbage/dissent driving off with no purpose or sense direction. I wrote to keep track of my thoughts and from that came Starving.”
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“Having experimented in both poetry and prose, I can say that the two are such loaded words. But neither are quite as weighted as the word “poet”. I think some people can write poetry their whole lives, and never truly BE a “poet”. Whereas I see poets in the wanderers I encounter, the baristas who serve me, and the truckers I, so, love to talk to.To be a poet in my humble opinion is to be a muse of the human experience. I love that I love the idea, that anything can be poetry, it can’t be defined. It’s a feeling, like punk rock. I’m not one for form or structure. I say if your words are visceral and honest, it’s poetry. If you see the beauty of the world and humanity, and you preach it, you’re a poet.”
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“I was packed tightly into this old van, with three other people that I didn’t really know, with backpack/ garbage/dissent driving off with no purpose or sense direction. I wrote to keep track of my thoughts and from that came Starving.”
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