Small Press Points

Ander Monson missed Michigan, where he grew up, and “Michigan-ness,” a quality he characterizes as “something weirder, a little beyond boundary, on the edge of something mysterious,” when he founded New Michigan Press (newmichiganpress.com) in 1999. At the time, he was editing Black Warrior Review, but he wasn’t receiving work that engaged image and text, erasure, or other mixed-media forms. He was fascinated by the page as a visual space and wanted to publish work that transgressed traditional genres. While Monson was studying at Iowa State University in Ames, where he earned an MA in English, his professor Debra Marquart told him that he didn’t need thousands of dollars to start a press; instead, she advised, “Just run a contest. Publish the winner. Treat people well.” For the past twenty-five years,…

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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2024

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