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I am indebted to dozens of people who had a hand in making this book.

I am grateful for the love and support of my family. Thank you to my wife Rena; my children Mary Eleanor, Grace, Claire, and John T.; and to the Belz, Mudd, and Nehrling families. And thanks to Muz, Constance O’Toole Belz, who has never failed to ask me how my writing was coming.

Thanks to my generous friends: Rafael Alvarez for an introduction. To Jim Burger for the author’s photograph. To Stephen Doyle of Doyle Partners in New York for creating the design concept and photograph for the cover.

Thanks to my teachers and mentors for their patient inspiration: Richard M. Prodey, Michael Iampieri, James Johnson, Robert Keller, Bob Cullen, S.J., Sr. Maura Eichner SSND, Phillip McCaffrey, Thomas Scheye, and many others.

Thanks to the editors of the publications who first saw fit to put my work between covers: Unicorn, City Paper, the Valley Times, The Evening Sun, The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore Examiner, the Southern Literary Messenger, Oregon Review, Antietam Review, MacGuffin, The Cynic and others.

Thanks to the writers and colleagues who influenced this work by their example and their encouragement.

Thanks to all of my students, who taught me everything I know about teaching writing.

Finally, thanks to the publishers, editors, and designers at Apprentice House Press who believed in and encouraged this project: Lauren Hooper, Marguerite Pravata, Sheila Watko, Gregg Wilhelm, and Kevin Atticks.

— D.R. Belz

Chestnut Ridge

Spring, 2010