Armando and Maisie

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John Maynard is Professor of English Emeritus at NYU. He has published five nonfiction books, including three with Harvard and Cambridge, and many articles and has done a great deal of editing, including co-editing a journal for Cambridge for 26 years. He won the Thomas J. Wilson Prize for his biography of Robert Browning. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and also an NEH Grant; recently he was given an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who. He is a member of PEN.

During most of his adult life, he wrote some poems and planned to write more. As he neared retirement, he found time to write many more poems, often while walking his golden-doodle Maisie in Central Park. He has been editing them for book publications for the past four years. Armando and Maisie is the first of a number of books he plans. Another, What’s It Like to Be Old?, will be published in 2026. Two more are already completed.

Learn more on his Wikipedia page

Paperback: 64 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (July 1, 2025)

Also available on Kindle

Reviews:
West Side Rag

Awards:
BREW Book Excellence Award (Narrative Poetry category, 2026)