JOEL WALDMAN, who was born in New York City in the middle-class borough of the West Bronx on November 9, 1940, can still remember the black outs and air-raid drills of WW2.

P.S. 7, Bronx.

De Witt Clinton H. S. Class of 1957.

BA 1963, C.C.N.Y.

MA 1968, C.C.N.Y.

Joel's first book, Ice Princess, was published by Nho Direction Press in Berkeley in 1968; Fifty New Poems was published at Mole Ranch in 2002. Joel now lives in Elk, California where he works for the Post Office.