# One Bleecker Series #7: John Godfrey + Jennifer Soong

One Bleecker Series #7: John Godfrey + Jennifer Soong at Codex, Friday 6 November 2026, 18:30.

- Venue: Codex, Bleecker Street 1
- With: John Godfrey, Jennifer Soong
- Go to programme: https://codexbooks.info/events/

A poetry reading at Codex on Bleecker Street, part of the One Bleecker Series. Poets John Godfrey and Jennifer Soong will read, with the series curated by Chris Hosea. Godfrey is a New York poet with more than a dozen collections of poetry who also worked for 17 years as a nurse clinician specializing in HIV/AIDS. Soong is a poet based in New Jersey and New York whose first full-length book, Near At, is forthcoming from Futurepoem Books.

## Dates

- Friday 6 November 18:30 — Codex

Written by a model, sources: [codexbooks.info](https://codexbooks.info/events/)

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