disc jockey, missionary worker, and theatrical public relations director. He is now in his eleventh year as professor of English at New York State's Rockland Community College. Masterson's poems have appeared in Poetry, New Yorker, Esquire, Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and other magazines. National recognition for his work includes a Borestone Poetry Award, Poetry Northwest Bullis Prize, and the CCLM Fels Award. On Earth as It Is was one of six finalists in the 1976-77 Associated Writing Programs poetry series competition.