“Great Egret” Wins Orlando Contest

May 26, 2021

For years I’ve been threatening to write poems to go with my photos, but it’s been really tough to mesh the two because I take wildlife photos and I don’t write wildlife poems (some feature wild life, but that’s another creature altogether). I’ve finally done it, though, and “Great Egret” won first place in the City of Orlando Words and Wonders Poetry Contest. Will it be another seven years before I write a second one? Time will tell …

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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

“Great Egret” Wins Orlando Contest

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