John Godfrey, whose books include Midnight on Your Left (The Figures, 1988), Dabble (Full Court Press, 1982) and How to Give Yourself a Clean Shot (distributed nationally by The Needle Exchange), was born in Northernmost New York State in 1945. He attended schools over a criss-cross pattern from the then Territory of Hawaii to Vermont, and graduated from Princeton University in 1967. While an undergraduate he began publishing poems in mimeo mags on The Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he lives to this day. He has taught workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-on-the-Bowery, and in 1984 was a poetry fellow of the General Electric Foundation in conjunction with the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Paris Review, The Harris Review, The World, Adventures in Poetry, Un Poco Loco, Mag City, Ghandhabba, Tangerine, Rocky Ledge, and others. Currently, he is working as an angel of mercy with homebound AIDS children in inner Brooklyn. Before signing on as a Public Health Nurse in Pediatric Infectious Diseases he received a degree in nursing from Columbia University.