Terry Godbey

“With her poems, Terry Godbey tells stories that break your heart, over and over."

— Martin Achatz, Passages North Poetry Editor

New Publications

August 31, 2011

I have new poems appearing soon in Naugatuck River Review, Florida Review, Pearl, CALYX and Passager.

‘Beauty Lessons’ Release Party

January 23, 2011

Poet Susan Lilley & Rick Stanley of Scott Laurent Collection introduced Terry.

terry signing books I wasn’t feeling too beautiful, or too healthy, here on Jan. 22, 2011, right in the middle of six months of chemotherapy, but the excellent turnout and support of friends and fans was exhilarating. The setting – amid the elegant works of art at Scott Laurent Collection in Winter Park, Florida – added to the night’s magic.

Time Passages

January 21, 2011

terry & pamela ramey tatum

Pamela Ramey Tatum, an artist in New Smyrna Beach, FL, created a painting inspired by my poem “Dim Doorways.”

It was one of several pairings in the “Time Passages” artistic and literary collaboration that opened Jan. 20, 2011, at the Gallery at Avalon Island in downtown Orlando.

Celebrate the Release of ‘Beauty Lessons’

January 6, 2011

book release party invitation

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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
Photo by Judy Watson Tracy
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

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