Duckling photo chosen for Audubon’s Top 100

July 31, 2016

I learned quite by accident that a photo of redhead ducklings I entered in the 2016 Audubon Photography Awards was selected for their Top 100 out of nearly 7,000 photographs. This shot was taken along the shore of Lake Ivanhoe near downtown Orlando.

Take a break from politics and check out all the photos. They will take your breath away. I’m honored to be in the company of these gifted photographers.

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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

Duckling photo chosen for Audubon’s Top 100

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