Come Shining
More Poems and Stories from Fifty Years of Copper Canyon Press
- Come Shining is a supplementary anthology to A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press (AHCT). It includes community members' commentary that pairs with poems published in AHCT as well as poems that did not make it into AHCT.
- Over 150 contributors from Copper Canyon Press’s community submitted poems to create both A House Called Tomorrow and Come Shining. These members included staff, interns, board members, poets, designers, and readers.
- Fun Fact: The most recommended poem was "Twigs" by Taha Muhammad Ali; it was recommended four times.
- Includes an Introduction by Executive Editor Michael Wiegers
- Includes nearly twenty archival photographs and handwritten notes from Copper Canyon Press community members
- Cover art features the flight of meteors captured in gold paint created by the artist-in-residence at NASA, Erika Blumenfeld
- Potential audiences: Fans of Copper Canyon Press, poetry and poetry in translation, and anecdotal memoir; Readers interested in how poetry creates community
About the Editors
Michael Wiegers is the Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press where, over the past three decades, he has edited and published more than five hundred titles. He additionally serves as poetry editor for Narrative. Wiegers edited two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford, What About This (a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award) and Hidden Water (with Chet Weise), and he is also the editor of Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (with Mónica de la Torre), The Poet’s Childand This Art: Poems about Poetry. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, and is writing a book about W.S. Merwin.
Kaci X. Tavares is a bilingual poet and editor from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She is currently Copper Canyon Press’s Publishing Fellow, and was recently a writing mentor with the New York-based nonprofit Girls Write Now. With the University of East Anglia Publishing Project, she co-edited the 2020 Poetry MA Anthology (Egg Box Publishing), and offered English-language guidance to literary translators. She holds degrees in English and English Education from Boston University, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
