# Event Details - **Event Name**: Offsite: Maggie Smith: A Suit or a Suitcase w/ Amber Tamblyn - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: "A really confident, satisfying collection of poems. Not a word or idea is out of place. The title poem is a real standout." —Roxane GayAbout this EventEvent guidelines:Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.A signing line will follow the talk.Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net.Instant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space.The title of Maggie Smith’s new collection comes from the eponymous poem:You ask what I’ll miss about this life.Everything but cruelty, I think.But you want one specific thing,so here—I’ll miss my body. I’ll missits companionship, how it’s traveledwith me, never leaving me—& by me,I mean my mind. My soul? My self?I don’t know what to call it, and besides,my body hasn’t traveled with me.I’ve traveled inside it. Do I wear itor does it carry me? Is the body a suitor a suitcase?Within, poems turn over the strange relationships between the body and the mind, the self and the world. With her signature tenderness and clarity of observation, and with stunning swoops of imagination, Smith considers—and reconsiders—what it is to be human: Does one life matter in the grand scheme of space and time? How can it be that we are the same people we were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, but also different people? And could there be more to life, just beyond the borders of we can experience?Each poem is an ode to the power of our minds and proof that both a life and a self, whether within a suit or a suitcase, is infinitely expandable.Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, Dear Writer, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.Amber Tamblyn is the author of seven books across genres, including the critically acclaimed National Bestselling novel Any Man and poetry collection, Dark Sparkler. She's the creator of the popular newsletter Listening in the Dark, an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress, and award winning director. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the The Poetry Foundation, among others. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/offsite-maggie-smith-a-suit-or-a-suitcase-w-amber-tamblyn/100001977720097049 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Foffsite-maggie-smith-a-suit-or-a-suitcase-w-amber-tamblyn-tickets-1977720097049 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10.89, max: 32.66, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church - **lat**: 40.6945037 - **long**: -73.9924631 - **full address**: St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Books Are Magic (https://allevents.in/org/books-are-magic/22525923) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/2c71c2f1e022cca50e8de1ecdf27a7cfa356949d78f7b2aa6e246921b9786279-rimg-w1200-h600-dc6a1b16-gmir.jpg?v=1766301325 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/4a4a5558b8d514823ad87ff2f58f73464fb33652ee8bc38d44dc2091640f4e9a-rimg-w400-h400-dc6b1c17-gmir.jpg?v=1766301321 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 10.89 up to 32.66 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Books Are Magic - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, theatre - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Offsite: Maggie Smith: A Suit or a Suitcase w/ Amber Tamblyn ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Offsite: Maggie Smith: A Suit or a Suitcase w/ Amber Tamblyn", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/2c71c2f1e022cca50e8de1ecdf27a7cfa356949d78f7b2aa6e246921b9786279-rimg-w1200-h600-dc6a1b16-gmir.jpg?v=1766301325", "startDate": "2026-03-23", "endDate": "2026-03-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/offsite-maggie-smith-a-suit-or-a-suitcase-w-amber-tamblyn/100001977720097049", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "157 Montague Street", "postalCode": "11201", "addressLocality": "Brooklyn", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.6945037", "longitude": "-73.9924631" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "\"A really confident, satisfying collection of poems. 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