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.

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 one of my drawings
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

Friday, 11 November 2011

I'm looking forward to reading with poets DeWayne Barton and Gyorgyi Voros at the next Flood Reading Series event.

Flood Reading Series
7 p.m.
Loretta's Cafe
114 North Lexington Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
828.253.374714 October 2011

February-March 2012

Chicago
Venue, date, and time have not yet been set.


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.



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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.)

All images by Landon Godfrey are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

"Oklahoma" by Landon Godfrey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

All Landon Godfrey Notebook and Godfrey/Hawkins Photoblog images by Landon Godfrey are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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