“Cocoa Beach” Chosen as Poem of the Day

November 14, 2020

Many thanks to SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) and editor Caridad Moro-Gronlier for featuring my pantoum “Cocoa Beach” (from the new “Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing” anthology) as the magazine’s poem of the day on Nov. 13.

SWWIM is featuring poems from “Grabbed” in conjunction with the Miami Book Fair, which is virtual and starts tomorrow with events featuring today’s finest writers including “Grabbed” editors Richard Blanco, Elisa Albo, Caridad Moro-Gronlier and Nikki Moustaki over eight inspiring days.

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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

“Cocoa Beach” Chosen as Poem of the Day

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