Landon Godfrey



Very happy and honored to have
been awarded a North Carolina Arts Council
2011-2012 Artist Fellowship.

My book of poems,
Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled
Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown,
selected by David St. John
for the Cider Press Review
Book Award, was published
in January 2011. It's available at
the Cider Press Review bookstore.
Local bookstores are also nice
places to buy books—for example,
in Asheville at Malaprop's.
And this book can be found at
Amazon.

Editor Sebastian Matthews at Q Avenue
Press has collected responses to work
by Wendell Berry in a chapbook which
can be downloaded for free: The Poet's Responsibility?!: Poets Respond to
Wendell Berry's "The Responsibility
of the Poet." I respond with attitude
borrowed from one of my favorite
heros of literature. November 2012.

Wonderful poet Justin Bigos interviews
me, Fall 2011: American Literary Review.

A Summer 2011 interview
at Lines + Stars journal.

Five poems featured in the
2011 first books issue of
Beltway Poetry Quarterly.




Cider Press Review
used my drawing of a robin
for their Volume 12 cover,
released Summer 2011.





The Verse Daily poem of
8 February 2011 is my poem
"Interview: Antique Iron Bed."

First published in Lyric, "Interview:
Antique Iron Bed" also appears as a
literary/visual collaboration at the
wonderful Broadsided project.

A poem at The Asheville Poetry Review.

A poem at The Southeast Review.

Two poems at Beloit Poetry Journal
(see pp. 26-28).

Interviews on MAIN-FM's "Wordplay," hosted by Jeff Davis and Sebastian Matthews (27 January 2008 & 6 July 2008).


Gallery: Drawings


Godfrey & Hawkins Quotidian Photo Project


Upcoming Readings

Altamont Theatre Reading Series
Asheville, NC
7 p.m., Spring 2012 date to be determined


Upcoming Projects

Printmaker Lisa Beth Robinson is working on a letterpress broadside of "Chanel No. 5" from Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown.


A Poem

OKLAHOMA

Orange trumpet vine
plaits through scrub oak
and a chrome-green hummingbird
labors at each fount,
the two-way seduction
rare it seems to me.

Red salamanders
scrabbling over red clay.
Turtles sunning
on helmet-bevel rocks
along the lake shore.
Jackrabbit fur
a dopplegänger of dust.

I hate this beauty.
I hate seeing the stars at night,
hearing cricket symphonies
and owls hunting mice.
And vague but vaunted
qualities like freedom & privacy
born of open space
rather than resistance.
The enormous sky widening
into universe, and place
singing the song of place
all day, all night.

The only night
I’ve liked here?
When we were walking
the dogs late in the evening
and a couple of blocks ahead we saw
a man juggling fire
and when we got to that place
he was gone.
That’s the dream—
combustion followed by absence.


("Oklahoma" was originally published by The Missouri Review online.)



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Author photos: top photo by Carol Quinn; last photo by Landon Godfrey


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