Michael Wiegers is the executive editor of Copper Canyon Press, a publishing house dedicated exclusively to poetry. Among the collections he has edited are award-winning books by poets such as C. D. Wright, W. S. Merwin, Ruth Stone, Ted Kooser, Taha Muhammad Ali, Arthur Sze, and Alberto R’os, as well as major works in translation and books by emerging authors. He is the coeditor of Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry and the editor of the anthologies This Art and The Poet’s Child.