John Maynard is Professor Emeritus, English, NYU, where he served as chair for 6 years). He took his B.A. from Harvard College (summa) and Ph.D. from Harvard Graduate School. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Grantee. He won the Thomas J. Wilson Book Prize and an Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. He is a member of P.E.N. Always a writer of poetry, since retirement he has devoted himself professionally to writing and editing his poems.