[Michael Juster]

I want to acknowledge my gratitude to Paul Lake and Jody Bottum for dusting off my "Rejection Note for Paradise Regained" (workshopped here) for the First Things 20th Anniversary issue. It's always an honor to hang with Alicia Stallings, Rhina Espaillat, Julie Stoner from Erato--as well as Mark Jarman, Samuel Menashe and other fine poets--but what an extraordinary kick it was to read the table of contents and see A.M. Juster (p.48) right after Richard Wilbur (p.37)!