John Godfrey has published eight books of poetry across 40 years, all spent in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Paris Review, The Harris Review, The World, Adventures in Poetry, Sal Mimeo and others. He has taught workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and was a poetry fellow of the General Electric Foundation. He works as a nurse for homebound AIDS patients in the boroughs of New York City.

Books by John Godfrey: City of Corners, Private Lemonade, Push the Mule, Midnight on Your Left, Where the Weather Suits My Clothes, Dabble, Five Seasons