Michael Wiegers

Miriam Berkley
Michael Wiegers has been acquiring and editing books for Copper Canyon Press since 1993, and currently serves as the Press’s Executive Editor/Editor in Chief. He has edited two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford, including What About This, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. He edited the anthologies The Poet’s Child and This Art, and translated poems for Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, which he co-edited with Mónica de la Torre. He is also the poetry editor of Narrative and regularly speaks about the art of publishing at universities and colleges around the world. He is currently at work on a book about the poet W.S. Merwin.
Books by this author
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Come Shining: More Poems and Stories from Fifty Years of Copper Canyon Press
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The World Has Need of You: Poems for Connection
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A House Called Tomorrow: 50 Years of Poetry
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Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
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This Art: Poems About Poetry
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The Poet's Child: A Copper Canyon Press Anthology
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What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
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The Essential W.S. Merwin