Share This Poem: “Suitor,” by Ron Smith.

When George met Martha …

Detail from “Goddess,” a photograph by Lee Strasburger that accompanied “Suitor” in our print issue.

BROAD STREET is pleased to present a broadside from our “Maps & Legends” issue. Here Ron Smith imagines one of the most legendary courtships in American history, in a poem that has found a home at Mount Vernon.

To download the broadside, simply click anywhere on the poem and drag it home.

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Ron’s self-portrait

Ron Smith recently served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia, and he is the Writer-in-Residence at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond. His books are Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, Moon Road, and Its Ghostly Workshop.

Click here to read a Truth Teller Spotlight interview with Ron about the nature of truth, honesty, and poetry.

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