Description

Book Synopsis
Issue 31/2 is a special double issue, featuring nationally renowned American writers and nine translation folios with generous selections of work by internationally known writers from Argentina, French-Speaking Belgium, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Poland, the , South Korea, and the Galician Region of Spain.

The issue includes:

Poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa; National Book Award finalist and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Carl Phillips; Guggenheim Fellows Terese Svoboda, David Kirby, and Mark Halliday; two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Maureen Seaton; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Pablo Medina; Lenore Marshall Prize winner Craig Morgan Teicher; Kresge Arts Foundation and Kundiman Fellow Matthew Olzmann; Ohioana Book Award winner Ruth Awad; Kundiman Prize winner Janine Joseph; Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner G. C. Waldrep; Lambda Literary Award finalist Randall Mann; as well as Michael Bazzett, Jehanne Dubrow, Sarah Gridley, Joy Katz, Hailey Leithauser, Claire Wahmanholm, and many others.

Fiction by Maxim Loskutoff, an NPR Best Book author and New York Times Editor’s Pick; as well as by Cara Blue Adams, Gerri Brightwell, Aidan Forster, Ryan Habermeyer, Nihal Mubarak, and Carolyn Oliver.

Nonfiction by PEN Center USA Literary Award and California Book Award winner Victoria Chang, art and literature critic Robert Archambeau (writing on the “spirituality” of Andy Warhol), and relative newcomer Caroline Plasket. Translation Folios with poetry by Filipino poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (translated by Kristine Ong Muslim), Mexican poet Cesar Cañedo (translated by Whitney DeVos), (translated by Jennifer Kronovet), Franco-Belgian poet Guy Goffette (translated by Marilyn Hacker), Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula (translated by Maria Nazos), Polish poet Ewa Lipska (translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, South Korean poet Moon Bo Young (translated by Hedgie Choi), Galician/Spanish poet Chus Pato (translated by Erín Moure), and Argentinian fiction writer, journalist, and political martyr Rodolfo Walsh (translated by Cindy Schuster).

The cover features work by New York-based artist and Gordon Parks Foundation fellow Derrick Adams, whose work has shown nationally and been featured on the television shows Empire and Insecure.

Trade Review
Praise for Copper Nickel

“Copper Nickel is terrific—of its time without being confined to its time, careful and thoughtful and never predictable, with the kind of internal variety that I want (and rarely get) from a litmag—not a pinlight or a penlight but a light that shines on a whole field. I’m happy to read it.”—Stephanie Burt, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry; Professor of English, Harvard University
“Through its combination of editorial acuity, serious belief in contemporary writing, and sheer handsomeness, Copper Nickel has established itself as the best new evidence of defiant vitality in the realm of literary journals.”—Mark Halliday, author of six poetry collections, most recently Thresherphobe; Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio University
“Copper Nickel is THE literary magazine to read now. Since it’s rebirth/relaunch every issue has had, inside its stunning cover, the fiction, poetry, nonfiction and works in translation any writer or lover of contemporary writing has to read. I confess: other magazines, even the New Yorker, often sit in my house unread. But Copper Nickel gets opened as quickly as a Christmas present!”—Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of five books of fiction, most recently the novel My Life as a Silent Movie, and seven poetry collections; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin
“Long regarded as one of the best literary magazines in the country, the relaunched Copper Nickel has only improved, publishing a diverse range of award-winning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in its first year. With each new issue Copper Nickel proves itself to be a wellspring of new American writing.”—Nathan Oates, author of The Empty House; Associate Professor of English, Seton Hall University
“In the great spirit of the late Jake Adam York, Copper Nickel is back and more relevant than ever. Where else to turn for such a dynamic combination of contemporary writing? Brilliantly curated, the diversity of voices, new and established, not only spans aesthetic divides but includes translation portfolios, art and essays that address pressing concerns of writers working today.”—Sally Keith, author of four poetry collections, most recently River House; Associate Professor of Creative Writing, George Mason University
“Copper Nickel is one of the most diverse, daring, and visually beautiful literary journals I’ve ever read. The fact that its relaunch has gained national recognition is no surprise—now more than ever, Copper Nickel is a goldmine for readers of contemporary poetry and prose.”—Allison Benis White, author of three poetry collections, most recently Please Bury Me in This; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of California Riverside
“Copper Nickel is more than a literary journal—it’s an event. A celebration. An embrace. And it is also essential reading for anyone who cares about contemporary writing these days, in America and beyond.”—Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of Missouri Kansas City
“Copper Nickel has been a great magazine for quite awhile, and it continues to get better. Aesthetically diverse, welcoming of both established and emerging writers, it’s always worth a cover-to-cover read.”—Martha Collins, author of ten poetry collections, most recently Admit One: An American Scrapbook; Professor Emerita, Oberlin College
“When I first encountered Copper Nickel, I was a hopeful graduate student looking for poems written by my peers to both resonate with me and challenge me. I found so many new heroes in the pages of Copper Nickel, and it also allowed me to encounter the work of its brilliant editors as well, including Jake Adam York. When Jake passed, I mourned both him and his vision. It’s been thrilling to see Copper Nickel come back to life, and in its new alchemical form, it is as much if not more wide-seeing and enlivening as ever. I recommend it frequently to my students, colleagues, and lovers of engaging literature and art.”—Tarfia Faizullah, author of the poetry collection Seam; Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, University of Michigan
“The newly relaunched Copper Nickel is certainly one of the most exciting literary magazines being published in the country today. The poems, stories, and essays are of the very highest quality and the editors’ passion for a truly international vision of literature as well as for the discovery of new work by emerging authors shows in every issue. It’s no surprise that this year’s work from Copper Nickel has been selected for inclusion in three of the most prestigious annual anthologies in print: Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.”—Kevin Prufer, author of six poetry collections, most recently Churches; Professor of Creative Writing, University of Houston
“I admire the careful curation of the issues of the rebooted Copper Nickel, its diversity of aesthetics and cultural voices, in particular its commitment to emerging writers: in the current issue, two of my favorite pieces are by Sequoia Nagamatsu and Cathy Linh Che, fierce writers (each the author of one book) who are new to me. And what’s consistent in the magazine—line by line; sentence by sentence—is the caliber of the work.”—Randall Mann, author of three poetry collections, most recently Proprietary

Table of Contents
Contributors to issue 31/2 come from all over the country and the world. U.S. cities/regions where contributors are concentrated include:

Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff), as well as contributors Maureen Seaton and Seth Brady Tucker)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributors Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)
Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributors Megan Alpert, Andrea Cohen, J. Kates, Nihal Mubarak, and John Skoyles; contributing editors Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)
New York, NY (contributors Cara Blue Adams, Laren McClung, Therese Svoboda, Craig Morgan Teicher; contributing editor Jason Koo)
San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributors Despy Boutris, Randall Mann, Sara Michas-Martin, Kathleen Winter; contributing editor Robin Ekiss)
Houston, TX (contributors Robin Davidson, Hazem Fahmy, and Christopher Brean Murray; contributing editor Kevin Prufer)
Washington, DC (contributors Sarah Burnett and Hailey Leithauser; contributing editor David Keplinger)
Chicago, IL (contributors Robert Archambeau and Matthew Kelsey)
San Diego, CA (contributors Michael Mark and Cindy Schuster)
Grand Rapids, MI (contributors W. Todd Kaneko and Kathleen McGookey)
Saint Louis, MO (contributors Carl Phillips and Steven D. Schroeder)
Philadelphia, PA (contributors Henry Israeli and Eleanor Stanford)

Other cities where contributors live:

Los Angeles, CA (contributor Victoria Chang)
Fairbanks, AK (contributor Gerri Brightwell)
Tuscaloosa, AL (contributor Brian Phillip Whalen)
Ocala, FL (contributor Asa Drake)
South Bend, IN (contributor David Dodd Lee)
Muncie, IN (contributor Mark Neely)
Independence, KY (contributor Caroline Plasket)
New Orleans, LA (contributor Peter Cooley)
Amherst, MA (contributor Matt Donovan)
Worcester, MA (contributor Carolyn Oliver)
Eden, MD (contributor Ryan Habermeyer)
Kansas City, MO (contributor Erin Adair-Hodges)
Hattiesburg, MS (contributor Adam Clay)
Missoula, MT (contributor Maxim Loskutoff)
Raleigh, NC (contributor Jennifer Brown)
Omaha, NE (contributor Lisa Fay Coutley)
Lincoln, NE (contributor Maria Nazos)
Hanover, NH (contributor Matthew Olzmann)
Potsdam, NY (contributor Sarah Barber)
Columbus, OH (contributor Ruth Awad)
Cleveland, OH (contributor Sarah Gridley)
Athens, OH (contributor Mark Halliday)
Stillwater, OK (contributor Janine Joseph)
Eugene, OR (contributor Maxine Scates)
Pittsburgh, PA (contributor Joy Katz)
Lewisburg, PA (contributor G. C. Waldrep)
Conway, SC (contributor Dan Albergotti)
Taylors, SC (contributor Aidan Forster)
Austin, TX (contributor Hedgie Choi)
Denton, TX (contributor Jehanne Dubrow)
Salt Lake City, UT (contributor JP Grasser)
Brattleboro, VT (contributor Pablo Medina)
Madison, WI (contributing editor Jesse Lee Kercheval)
Charleston, WV (contributing editor Mark Brazaitis)

International Contributors live in:

Manila, Philippines (Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, Kristine Ong Muslim)
Montreal, Canada (Erín Moure)
Paris, France (Guy Goffette, Marilyn Hacker)
Mexico City, Mexico (Cesar Cañedo, Whitney DeVos)
Krakow, Poland (Ewa Lipska, Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska)
Jeju, South Korea (Moon Bo Young)
Ourense, Spain (Chus Pato)
London, UK (Lotte Mitchell Reford)

Copper Nickel (31/32)

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      Publisher: Milkweed Editions
      Publication Date: 26/11/2020
      ISBN13: 9781733276023, 978-1733276023
      ISBN10: 1733276025

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Issue 31/2 is a special double issue, featuring nationally renowned American writers and nine translation folios with generous selections of work by internationally known writers from Argentina, French-Speaking Belgium, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Poland, the , South Korea, and the Galician Region of Spain.

      The issue includes:

      Poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa; National Book Award finalist and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Carl Phillips; Guggenheim Fellows Terese Svoboda, David Kirby, and Mark Halliday; two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Maureen Seaton; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Pablo Medina; Lenore Marshall Prize winner Craig Morgan Teicher; Kresge Arts Foundation and Kundiman Fellow Matthew Olzmann; Ohioana Book Award winner Ruth Awad; Kundiman Prize winner Janine Joseph; Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner G. C. Waldrep; Lambda Literary Award finalist Randall Mann; as well as Michael Bazzett, Jehanne Dubrow, Sarah Gridley, Joy Katz, Hailey Leithauser, Claire Wahmanholm, and many others.

      Fiction by Maxim Loskutoff, an NPR Best Book author and New York Times Editor’s Pick; as well as by Cara Blue Adams, Gerri Brightwell, Aidan Forster, Ryan Habermeyer, Nihal Mubarak, and Carolyn Oliver.

      Nonfiction by PEN Center USA Literary Award and California Book Award winner Victoria Chang, art and literature critic Robert Archambeau (writing on the “spirituality” of Andy Warhol), and relative newcomer Caroline Plasket. Translation Folios with poetry by Filipino poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (translated by Kristine Ong Muslim), Mexican poet Cesar Cañedo (translated by Whitney DeVos), (translated by Jennifer Kronovet), Franco-Belgian poet Guy Goffette (translated by Marilyn Hacker), Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula (translated by Maria Nazos), Polish poet Ewa Lipska (translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, South Korean poet Moon Bo Young (translated by Hedgie Choi), Galician/Spanish poet Chus Pato (translated by Erín Moure), and Argentinian fiction writer, journalist, and political martyr Rodolfo Walsh (translated by Cindy Schuster).

      The cover features work by New York-based artist and Gordon Parks Foundation fellow Derrick Adams, whose work has shown nationally and been featured on the television shows Empire and Insecure.

      Trade Review
      Praise for Copper Nickel

      “Copper Nickel is terrific—of its time without being confined to its time, careful and thoughtful and never predictable, with the kind of internal variety that I want (and rarely get) from a litmag—not a pinlight or a penlight but a light that shines on a whole field. I’m happy to read it.”—Stephanie Burt, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry; Professor of English, Harvard University
      “Through its combination of editorial acuity, serious belief in contemporary writing, and sheer handsomeness, Copper Nickel has established itself as the best new evidence of defiant vitality in the realm of literary journals.”—Mark Halliday, author of six poetry collections, most recently Thresherphobe; Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio University
      “Copper Nickel is THE literary magazine to read now. Since it’s rebirth/relaunch every issue has had, inside its stunning cover, the fiction, poetry, nonfiction and works in translation any writer or lover of contemporary writing has to read. I confess: other magazines, even the New Yorker, often sit in my house unread. But Copper Nickel gets opened as quickly as a Christmas present!”—Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of five books of fiction, most recently the novel My Life as a Silent Movie, and seven poetry collections; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin
      “Long regarded as one of the best literary magazines in the country, the relaunched Copper Nickel has only improved, publishing a diverse range of award-winning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in its first year. With each new issue Copper Nickel proves itself to be a wellspring of new American writing.”—Nathan Oates, author of The Empty House; Associate Professor of English, Seton Hall University
      “In the great spirit of the late Jake Adam York, Copper Nickel is back and more relevant than ever. Where else to turn for such a dynamic combination of contemporary writing? Brilliantly curated, the diversity of voices, new and established, not only spans aesthetic divides but includes translation portfolios, art and essays that address pressing concerns of writers working today.”—Sally Keith, author of four poetry collections, most recently River House; Associate Professor of Creative Writing, George Mason University
      “Copper Nickel is one of the most diverse, daring, and visually beautiful literary journals I’ve ever read. The fact that its relaunch has gained national recognition is no surprise—now more than ever, Copper Nickel is a goldmine for readers of contemporary poetry and prose.”—Allison Benis White, author of three poetry collections, most recently Please Bury Me in This; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of California Riverside
      “Copper Nickel is more than a literary journal—it’s an event. A celebration. An embrace. And it is also essential reading for anyone who cares about contemporary writing these days, in America and beyond.”—Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of Missouri Kansas City
      “Copper Nickel has been a great magazine for quite awhile, and it continues to get better. Aesthetically diverse, welcoming of both established and emerging writers, it’s always worth a cover-to-cover read.”—Martha Collins, author of ten poetry collections, most recently Admit One: An American Scrapbook; Professor Emerita, Oberlin College
      “When I first encountered Copper Nickel, I was a hopeful graduate student looking for poems written by my peers to both resonate with me and challenge me. I found so many new heroes in the pages of Copper Nickel, and it also allowed me to encounter the work of its brilliant editors as well, including Jake Adam York. When Jake passed, I mourned both him and his vision. It’s been thrilling to see Copper Nickel come back to life, and in its new alchemical form, it is as much if not more wide-seeing and enlivening as ever. I recommend it frequently to my students, colleagues, and lovers of engaging literature and art.”—Tarfia Faizullah, author of the poetry collection Seam; Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, University of Michigan
      “The newly relaunched Copper Nickel is certainly one of the most exciting literary magazines being published in the country today. The poems, stories, and essays are of the very highest quality and the editors’ passion for a truly international vision of literature as well as for the discovery of new work by emerging authors shows in every issue. It’s no surprise that this year’s work from Copper Nickel has been selected for inclusion in three of the most prestigious annual anthologies in print: Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.”—Kevin Prufer, author of six poetry collections, most recently Churches; Professor of Creative Writing, University of Houston
      “I admire the careful curation of the issues of the rebooted Copper Nickel, its diversity of aesthetics and cultural voices, in particular its commitment to emerging writers: in the current issue, two of my favorite pieces are by Sequoia Nagamatsu and Cathy Linh Che, fierce writers (each the author of one book) who are new to me. And what’s consistent in the magazine—line by line; sentence by sentence—is the caliber of the work.”—Randall Mann, author of three poetry collections, most recently Proprietary

      Table of Contents
      Contributors to issue 31/2 come from all over the country and the world. U.S. cities/regions where contributors are concentrated include:

      Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff), as well as contributors Maureen Seaton and Seth Brady Tucker)
      Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributors Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)
      Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributors Megan Alpert, Andrea Cohen, J. Kates, Nihal Mubarak, and John Skoyles; contributing editors Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)
      New York, NY (contributors Cara Blue Adams, Laren McClung, Therese Svoboda, Craig Morgan Teicher; contributing editor Jason Koo)
      San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributors Despy Boutris, Randall Mann, Sara Michas-Martin, Kathleen Winter; contributing editor Robin Ekiss)
      Houston, TX (contributors Robin Davidson, Hazem Fahmy, and Christopher Brean Murray; contributing editor Kevin Prufer)
      Washington, DC (contributors Sarah Burnett and Hailey Leithauser; contributing editor David Keplinger)
      Chicago, IL (contributors Robert Archambeau and Matthew Kelsey)
      San Diego, CA (contributors Michael Mark and Cindy Schuster)
      Grand Rapids, MI (contributors W. Todd Kaneko and Kathleen McGookey)
      Saint Louis, MO (contributors Carl Phillips and Steven D. Schroeder)
      Philadelphia, PA (contributors Henry Israeli and Eleanor Stanford)

      Other cities where contributors live:

      Los Angeles, CA (contributor Victoria Chang)
      Fairbanks, AK (contributor Gerri Brightwell)
      Tuscaloosa, AL (contributor Brian Phillip Whalen)
      Ocala, FL (contributor Asa Drake)
      South Bend, IN (contributor David Dodd Lee)
      Muncie, IN (contributor Mark Neely)
      Independence, KY (contributor Caroline Plasket)
      New Orleans, LA (contributor Peter Cooley)
      Amherst, MA (contributor Matt Donovan)
      Worcester, MA (contributor Carolyn Oliver)
      Eden, MD (contributor Ryan Habermeyer)
      Kansas City, MO (contributor Erin Adair-Hodges)
      Hattiesburg, MS (contributor Adam Clay)
      Missoula, MT (contributor Maxim Loskutoff)
      Raleigh, NC (contributor Jennifer Brown)
      Omaha, NE (contributor Lisa Fay Coutley)
      Lincoln, NE (contributor Maria Nazos)
      Hanover, NH (contributor Matthew Olzmann)
      Potsdam, NY (contributor Sarah Barber)
      Columbus, OH (contributor Ruth Awad)
      Cleveland, OH (contributor Sarah Gridley)
      Athens, OH (contributor Mark Halliday)
      Stillwater, OK (contributor Janine Joseph)
      Eugene, OR (contributor Maxine Scates)
      Pittsburgh, PA (contributor Joy Katz)
      Lewisburg, PA (contributor G. C. Waldrep)
      Conway, SC (contributor Dan Albergotti)
      Taylors, SC (contributor Aidan Forster)
      Austin, TX (contributor Hedgie Choi)
      Denton, TX (contributor Jehanne Dubrow)
      Salt Lake City, UT (contributor JP Grasser)
      Brattleboro, VT (contributor Pablo Medina)
      Madison, WI (contributing editor Jesse Lee Kercheval)
      Charleston, WV (contributing editor Mark Brazaitis)

      International Contributors live in:

      Manila, Philippines (Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, Kristine Ong Muslim)
      Montreal, Canada (Erín Moure)
      Paris, France (Guy Goffette, Marilyn Hacker)
      Mexico City, Mexico (Cesar Cañedo, Whitney DeVos)
      Krakow, Poland (Ewa Lipska, Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska)
      Jeju, South Korea (Moon Bo Young)
      Ourense, Spain (Chus Pato)
      London, UK (Lotte Mitchell Reford)

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