Special thanks to our amazing agent, Miriam Altshuler, and her assistant, Sara McGhee, our wonderful editor, Molly Chehak, our indefatigable publicist, Tina Andreadis, and our friend Andrew Carroll of the American Poetry and Literacy Project.
We also want to thank our friends at Georgetown University and WETA Public Television and Radio: Leona Fisher, Patricia O'Connor, Norma Tilden, Joe Sitterson, Dennis Williams, and Zoe Kalendek Lukas; and Maura Daly Phinney, Erika Robinson, Kate Hawley, Thanh Bui, Janet Riksen, Fran Planning, DeLinda Mrowka, Suzanne Masri, and Andrea Murray.
Thanks also to Ken and Sandy Roberts and their friends. Special thanks to Jean Ash, Renee Blaloch, Susan Lisk, Barbara Lanphier, Richard Appel, Mary Hutchins, Colleen O'Conner, Linda Kramer, and Ericka Souter, Matt Klam, the Hotel George, all the Cliffords, especially Garry, Pross Gifford and Jennifer Rutland from the Library of Congress, Poets House, the New York Public Library, Politics and Prose bookstore, and Fred Courtwright.
Elizabeth gratefully acknowledges the love, support, and gorgeous, brilliant shite of husband Larry and sons Stephen and Nicholas. And Mary thanks her husband, Greg, for happiness and wedded bliss and everything everything everything.