Jim Govoni, M.A.Ed., S.Y.C., L.P.C. has backgrounds in insurance, art education and yoga. He is a retired social worker and psychotherapist living with his partner for over forty years, Patricia and their two dogs. Jim is a member of The Meeting House Poets. The Meeting House Poets is a group of Eastern Connecticut poetry writers and performers. Jim's work is included in the anthologies Creativity and Constraint (Wising Up Press, 2014), BEAT-itude (Local Gems Press, 2018 & 2019) and Shadows From Unfinished Things (QTR Books 2018). Divine Crocodile: Poems From The Self is Jim's first full book of poems.