John Godfrey

John Godfrey:  was born beside the St. Lawrence River in Massena, N.Y. in 1945.  He dedicated himself to writing poems in 1965 while in college near NYC and became familiar with New York writing of the time and met the East Village poets.  He remains in the East Village since the late ’60s.  Sixteen of his collections have been published, most recently The City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966 – 2014 (Wave Books, 2016) and A Torch for Orphans (Cuneiform Press, 2020).