Terry Godbey

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

— Martin Achatz, Passages North Poetry Editor

Three Sold-Out Nights

September 19, 2011

Terry with Lucy Carney, who performed her poem “Infusion Fridays” during the three sold-out nights of The Pink Ribbon Project

The Pink Ribbon Project

August 31, 2011

“Infusion Fridays,” one of my new poems about my breast cancer journey, was performed by an actor in The Pink Ribbon Project at the Orlando Repertory Theatre in September.

Directed by Aradhana Tiwari, the night of drama, dance and visual art inspired by women fighting the disease took place Sept. 16, 17 and 18 in Orlando, FL.

Three hundred fifteen people attended the show. More than $4,600 was raised for the Breast Cancer Fund at Florida Hospital Cancer Institute to pay for mammograms for uninsured and underserved women.

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.

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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

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

Three Sold-Out Nights

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