Many Miles: Poems by Rosa Sophia Godshall (March 2025, Harbor Editions)
Many Miles is a meditation on grief, a love letter to a lost brother. Using automotive technology as an interpretive lens, Rosa Sophia Godshall reflects on childhood dysfunction and her own spiritual identity in search of a way forward. Threaded throughout this elegiac collection, unspoken but never far from her mind, is the question most often asked in the aftermath of suicide: Could I have saved him? The heartbreaking answer comes in a conversation with the medical examiner: “I never knew he wanted to die.”
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Rosa Sophia Godshall holds a degree in automotive technology and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University. Having grown up around typewriters, she now collects and services these wonderful machines.
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–Poet Campbell McGrath
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Automotive Poet, Rosa Sophia Godshall
When she’s out in the garage scraping her knuckles on a cylinder head, she’s Torque: The somewhat foul-mouthed alter-ego of poet and hybridist Rosa Sophia, who earned her MFA in Creative Writing program from Florida International University. Torque loves the smell of engine grease in the morning and likes to tell people how she accidentally drank differential fluid in college. She writes poems about engines, electricity, and 12-volt, using car parts as a metaphor for human experience. Her poem, “Take This Transmission for Instance,” about a Jeep transmission she salvaged after her father’s death, won Runner-Up in the 2020 FIU Student Literary Awards, and was subsequently published in Philadelphia Stories magazine. She was also the recipient of the 2023 Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, through FIU. Her work has been published in Philadelphia Stories Magazine, Sentience Literary Journal, SoFloPoJo, Islandia Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, Limp Wrist, and others. She is also the author of Village of North Palm Beach: A History (The History Press, 2020). Her first chapbook / poetry pamphlet, Many Miles, will be published in March 2025 by Harbor Editions. She is a member of The Theosophical Society in America and The Society of Florida Archivists, and she serves on the Board of the Seminole Wars Foundation. Rosa “Torque” Sophia Godshall is also the editor of Mobile Electronics magazine, the 12-Volt Industry’s #1 Resource. She lives in Palm Bay, Florida. To view a full list of her publications, please click here.
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