No, I don’t get nearly enough sleep

August 6, 2013

Yes, I’ve been a bit busy. My poem “Burn, Baby, Burn” appears in the new issue of Dressing Room Poetry Journal, with a nod to poet Jim Tilley.

I wrote a story in Orlando magazine about Florida’s new official perfume. I bet you didn’t know there was such a thing. It’s part of the state’s 500th birthday celebration, Viva Florida 500.

Also, I was profiled, along with five other Central Florida poets, in Orlando Arts magazine.

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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

No, I don’t get nearly enough sleep

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