A. M. Juster

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A. M. Juster is an American poet and critic, generally associated with New Formalism, born in 1956. He has twice won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. He has published a book of Petrarch translations, Longing for Laura (Birch Brook Press 2001), and a book of original poetry, The Secret Language of Women (University of Evansville 2003), that Rachel Hadas selected as the winner of the Richard Wilbur Award.

Juster has been a featured poet in Light and publishes his own serious and light verse. He also publishes many translations, including such authors as Martial, Ausonius, Propertius, Boileau, d'Orleans, Baudelaire, Petrarch and Montale, and has started publishing sections of a complete version of Horace's Satires rendered in heroic couplets.

Juster was the first moderator for Eratosphere, the largest on-line site for formal poetry. He has also taught poetry at Emerson College and been a fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.