So this is a collaboration that is undertaken
between the Poetry Center and the University of Arizona Prose
Series.
Each of these readings in the miniseries
features writers who are working across more traditionally
defined notions of literary genre.
Work that can both affirm the different DNA
strands that distinguish a story, or a poem, or an essay,
but more often that work also sometimes miraculously,
sometimes even simultaneously to cancel those distinctions,
to mess with the norms, and to alter in the end
how language goes about its business.
We're really excited that Maggie Nelson is here.
I'm excited to tell you that Ander Monson will
be introducing again.
How many people heard Ander introduce last time
for Lia Purpura?
Great.
Exclamation point.
It happens again.
Ander introduces again, and he'll
introduce again, and again.
Four times, so here's what I will tell you about Ander.
Be excited.
One thing I will say, because he'll say it if I don't.
It's a great opportunity right now
to turn off your cell phones, or silence them, or turn them off.
Pretend like we're on a giant jet.
Ander Monson is the author of a wild diversity
of books of essays, stories, poems, and memoir.
Including Vanishing Point, Other Electricities,
Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, The Available World,
and Vacation Land.
It's an awesome series of titles.
He is publisher and editor in chief
of Diagram, an online journal of text and art
that he founded in 2001.
And is also founding editor of The New Michigan
Press, a publisher of chapbooks, anthologies, broadsides,
and more.
He's professor of nonfiction in the creative writing MFA
program at the University of Arizona.
He has two forthcoming projects, Letter to a Future Lover,
coming out from Graywolf Press in 2015,
and a baby that's due early in November.
Coming soon.
Ander Monson.