I am a poet and artist living in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Recent news:

My poem "Interview: Antique Iron Bed" appears as a literary/visual collaboration at the wonderful Broadsided project.

I am honored to have a poem in Best New Poets 2008, selected by Mark Strand.

A few examples of my work:

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 online by The Missouri Review.)


Some other examples of my work:

A poem at The Southeast Review

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

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

Notebook

Godfrey & Hawkins
quotidian photo project

Having lived in Houston, I maintain an affection for that strange city, and I've happily worked on some Houston-related projects with the fantastic ttweak guys. Very cool: Houston. It's Worth It. (One of my photographs is in ttweak's HIWI book.)

The Mirabeau B. at Hyde Park: sustainable & beautiful living. (I wrote the text, consulted on the green thinking, and helped organize the website.)

I also like green energy. Here are a couple of websites I helped create (with ttweak) for a wind energy and a biomass company (I wrote or edited the original text):
Horizon Wind Energy
Zilkha Biomass Energy

A wonderful idea for helping the developing world (I wrote or edited the original text, which is long gone, but I'm still eager to see this project succeed):
The BOGO Light from SunNight Solar

A long time ago I worked on Greenliving as Supervising Editor while it existed (2000-2001). The website portion of the project isn't live anymore (nor is the television portion, for that matter) but you can see archived pages at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.


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"Robin" by Landon Godfrey is 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.