Today’s Poem: Confused about the Ivy League

Think of these schools as crime families

L.V. Carstens’s “A Cosy Corner.” c. 1888 (Wikimedia Commons)

A.M. Juster (b. 1956) is an American treasure. The only trouble is that America hasn’t quite figured out how to cash in on that treasure.

I have a special place in my heart for Juster — in part because in 2010 I commissioned the poet and critic Paul Mariani to write a profile that broke the stor…