Locally Grown Words Summer Book Fair

April 20, 2014

I’ll be at the Locally Grown Words Summer Book Fair at East End Market on Sunday, May 18, with copies of my new book, Hold Still, as well as Beauty Lessons, Flame and Behind Every Door. The free event sponsored by Orlando’s new independent bookstore, Bookmark It, will be at the popular market at 3201 Corrine Drive from noon to 4 p.m. Dozens of local authors and publishers will line the halls both upstairs and down, as well as in the beautiful courtyard. I’ll be sharing a table with Susan Lilley, author of When We Were Stardust, Night Windows and Satellite Beach. Grab lunch, check out the shops, visit with the authors and stop in at Bookmark It, which is extending the market’s grow-eat-shop-local mantra to include Central Florida readers and writers.

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“Terry Godbey’s Hold Still finds its center of gravity in the poet’s experience with breast cancer. These finely made poems trace the narrative arc of illness—moving from the shock of diagnosis through treatment to the aftermath of survival, ‘everything alive,/ even hope.’ Keenly aware that there is ‘much to measure’ in this world, Godbey reminds us that one of poetry’s highest purposes is to revise trauma, and in her lines, ‘find what will save’ us." – Claudia Emerson
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Terry Godbey’s full-length book, Hold Still, was published in March 2014 by Main Street Rag, and she’s the author of three previous poetry collections, Flame, Beauty Lessons and Behind Every Door. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Poet Lore, Harpur Palate, Passages North, CALYX, Pearl, Slipstream and other literary magazines. She lives in Orlando, Fla., and works as a writer at Darden Restaurants. More…
“Terry Godbey’s poems are carefully deployed, personally revealing, and shamelessly boy-crazy. In the best of them, she leads the reader through the doors of adolescence and into the house of poetry.” — Billy Collins