Ander Monson
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
I'm enjoying this interactive fiction, Slated for Demolition, from the 2025 IFComp: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I'm enjoying this interactive fiction, Slated for Demolition, from the 2025 IFComp: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
So @eldiagram.bsky.social made broadsides for @richard-siken.bsky.social, @mathiassvalina.bsky.social, @joshriedel.bsky.social, and Thomas Dai for their recent @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social readings. We have some left; if you want to buy em here you go: thediagram.com/merch/produc...
October 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So @eldiagram.bsky.social made broadsides for @richard-siken.bsky.social, @mathiassvalina.bsky.social, @joshriedel.bsky.social, and Thomas Dai for their recent @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social readings. We have some left; if you want to buy em here you go: thediagram.com/merch/produc...
Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
CAMPUS FLOWERS, a new show up in the Tiny Cabinet by Hanna Wilkens: the.tinycabi.net/2025/10/camp...
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
CAMPUS FLOWERS, a new show up in the Tiny Cabinet by Hanna Wilkens: the.tinycabi.net/2025/10/camp...
Mighta did a thing : thediagram.com/merch/produc...
September 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Mighta did a thing : thediagram.com/merch/produc...
oh dude I just made one for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
oh dude I just made one for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social
Ok so 2004's Cellular is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, particularly considering the stellar cast. SO MUCH casual misogyny! So much depends on the technology of the newish-then cellphone. But credit's due for a clever credit sequence, soundtracked by "Sinnerman."
September 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Ok so 2004's Cellular is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, particularly considering the stellar cast. SO MUCH casual misogyny! So much depends on the technology of the newish-then cellphone. But credit's due for a clever credit sequence, soundtracked by "Sinnerman."
"Untastables (Fictional Chips)" now up in the Tiny Cabinet.
Let’s Potato Chips, Community, 2009
Potato Crisps, Fallout 4, 2015
Potato Chips, Control, 2019
Zalgitos, Omega Mart, 2021
Judy’s Potato Chips, Open Roads, 2024
MAI** Potato Chips, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, 2025
Let’s Potato Chips, Community, 2009
Potato Crisps, Fallout 4, 2015
Potato Chips, Control, 2019
Zalgitos, Omega Mart, 2021
Judy’s Potato Chips, Open Roads, 2024
MAI** Potato Chips, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, 2025
August 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Untastables (Fictional Chips)" now up in the Tiny Cabinet.
Let’s Potato Chips, Community, 2009
Potato Crisps, Fallout 4, 2015
Potato Chips, Control, 2019
Zalgitos, Omega Mart, 2021
Judy’s Potato Chips, Open Roads, 2024
MAI** Potato Chips, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, 2025
Let’s Potato Chips, Community, 2009
Potato Crisps, Fallout 4, 2015
Potato Chips, Control, 2019
Zalgitos, Omega Mart, 2021
Judy’s Potato Chips, Open Roads, 2024
MAI** Potato Chips, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, 2025
I'm into this essay by Eliot Hagyard just out in @villaineralit.bsky.social: villaineralit.com/2025/08/12/l...
August 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I'm into this essay by Eliot Hagyard just out in @villaineralit.bsky.social: villaineralit.com/2025/08/12/l...
“Poems are the impossibility of plainness rendered in plainest form.” —Susan Howe
July 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“Poems are the impossibility of plainness rendered in plainest form.” —Susan Howe
Nothing's really lost
July 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Nothing's really lost
Thanks to everyone who did The Aurelie 30 with me in April! And thanks to Elliot Hagyard who shared work he did this month, which you can find on the A30 Work page: aurelie30.org/a30-work/
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks to everyone who did The Aurelie 30 with me in April! And thanks to Elliot Hagyard who shared work he did this month, which you can find on the A30 Work page: aurelie30.org/a30-work/
A hearty hell yeah congrats to Maya Bernstein-Schalet of @uamfa.bsky.social for winning an AWP Intro Journals award: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...
April 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A hearty hell yeah congrats to Maya Bernstein-Schalet of @uamfa.bsky.social for winning an AWP Intro Journals award: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...
"For me, gifts, at their best, are things given as part of a relationship rather than as part of a negotiated exchange."
A new Tiny Cabinet, Penguins and Gifts, by Cameron Carr: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/came...
A new Tiny Cabinet, Penguins and Gifts, by Cameron Carr: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/came...
April 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"For me, gifts, at their best, are things given as part of a relationship rather than as part of a negotiated exchange."
A new Tiny Cabinet, Penguins and Gifts, by Cameron Carr: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/came...
A new Tiny Cabinet, Penguins and Gifts, by Cameron Carr: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/came...
Editing my (to me) epic Sisters of Mercy essay for the forthcoming @marchxness anthology and I'm reminded that I wrote this kind of for James Butler-Gruett, and I went pretty hard, I think! Give it a read: marchxness.com/copy-of-swee...
April 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Editing my (to me) epic Sisters of Mercy essay for the forthcoming @marchxness anthology and I'm reminded that I wrote this kind of for James Butler-Gruett, and I went pretty hard, I think! Give it a read: marchxness.com/copy-of-swee...
7 Days to Go in the Aurelie 30 (aurelie30.org), sharing a piece I wrote for last year's A30, and today's writing assignment: open.substack.com/pub/aurelie3...
April 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
7 Days to Go in the Aurelie 30 (aurelie30.org), sharing a piece I wrote for last year's A30, and today's writing assignment: open.substack.com/pub/aurelie3...
"what was left", a new show by Astrid Liu in the Tiny Cabinet: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/astr...
April 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"what was left", a new show by Astrid Liu in the Tiny Cabinet: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/astr...
Details from Astrid Liu's new show up in the Tiny Cabinet; will post the url later on for you but it is lovely
April 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Details from Astrid Liu's new show up in the Tiny Cabinet; will post the url later on for you but it is lovely
Hey there we made a new @eldiagram.bsky.social shirt featuring fruit salads from an AZ-CA 1976 cookbook: thediagram.com/merch/produc...
April 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hey there we made a new @eldiagram.bsky.social shirt featuring fruit salads from an AZ-CA 1976 cookbook: thediagram.com/merch/produc...
I cannot get this image of a tiger with a face of a man out of my head so you should have it:
April 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I cannot get this image of a tiger with a face of a man out of my head so you should have it:
"I’m supposed to be working on my thesis, but I made this tiny cabinet instead."
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
April 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"I’m supposed to be working on my thesis, but I made this tiny cabinet instead."
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
Today we begin the 2025 Aurelie 30, in which we start something new each day in April. Come and join us and mark your progress: aurelie30.org
April 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Today we begin the 2025 Aurelie 30, in which we start something new each day in April. Come and join us and mark your progress: aurelie30.org
"How many times did she mistake romance / for a continuum between weather / and myth?" Here's another poem I really dug, "Michigan," from @walterspot.bsky.social's TROY, MICHIGAN, 2014
@futurepoem.bsky.social
@futurepoem.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"How many times did she mistake romance / for a continuum between weather / and myth?" Here's another poem I really dug, "Michigan," from @walterspot.bsky.social's TROY, MICHIGAN, 2014
@futurepoem.bsky.social
@futurepoem.bsky.social
"Through a fault in prescience, Ptolemy’s / map of the world did not note the Midwest”
from "Map" by @walterspot.bsky.social, from TROY, MICHIGAN, 2014 @futurepoem.bsky.social
from "Map" by @walterspot.bsky.social, from TROY, MICHIGAN, 2014 @futurepoem.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Through a fault in prescience, Ptolemy’s / map of the world did not note the Midwest”
from "Map" by @walterspot.bsky.social, from TROY, MICHIGAN, 2014 @futurepoem.bsky.social
from "Map" by @walterspot.bsky.social, from TROY, MICHIGAN, 2014 @futurepoem.bsky.social
Happy pub day to @alisondeming.bsky.social, whose BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER comes out today from @redhenpress.bsky.social: redhen.org/book/blue-fl... Alison is a hell of a poet, so I'm really looking forward to this. She'll be doing a book release at Antigone this Friday in Tucson 5-6pm
March 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Happy pub day to @alisondeming.bsky.social, whose BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER comes out today from @redhenpress.bsky.social: redhen.org/book/blue-fl... Alison is a hell of a poet, so I'm really looking forward to this. She'll be doing a book release at Antigone this Friday in Tucson 5-6pm