‘Tango’ Will Be Published in 2025!

October 21, 2024

I can’t wait to share the news that my fifth poetry collection, Tango, has been accepted for publication by Kelsay Books!

The publisher seems a good fit for me, and their books are lovely. The news came during Hurricane Milton prep, so I had to read the email several times before I believed what I was seeing. Tango had been rejected seven times over the last two years, but none of that matters now.

Cue the balloons and champagne, baby!

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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

‘Tango’ Will Be Published in 2025!

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