‘Words in Flight’ at Orlando Airport

July 15, 2020

I’m honored to have one of my poems, “Traveling Light,” on exhibit at the Orlando International Airport. “Words in Flight: A Celebration of Orlando Area Poets” pairs poems inspired by flight, travel and transformation with airport photographs.

Twelve other local poets including Orlando Poet Laureate Susan Lilley, former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins and two teen writers are represented.

The exhibit is on the airport’s third level in the Main Terminal near the checkpoint for Gates 70-129 (by the Starbucks) through Sept. 30.

I’m grateful to the airport and the city of Orlando for recognizing that art has never been more necessary. Check it out if you can.

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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