Terry’s Work Adorns Poetry Peacock

February 15, 2012

From left, Terry, poet Charles Coté (who also contributed a poem) and poet and artist Cara Nusinov with the Poetry Peacock at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival in Delray Beach in Jan. 2012

My poem “Valentine’s Day at Elementary School” is featured on the Polka Dot Poetry Peacock, a sculpture created by Cara Nusinov of South Florida. The artist festooned her work – part of a public art exhibition in the Coconut Grove area of Miami—with hundreds of poems through decoupage. “Art makes poetry touchable,” Cara said.

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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

Terry’s Work Adorns Poetry Peacock

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