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Book SynopsisIssue 34 Includes
• Poetry Translation Folios with work by Guatemalan K’iche Maya poet Humberto Ak’ab’al, translated by Michael Bazzett; Lithuania superstar poet Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Brian Henry; Spanish poet Sandra Santana, translated by Geoffrey Brock; and Venezuelan poet-in-exile Jesüs Amalio, translated by David Brunson, Jr. Plus a Fiction Translation Folio with two stories by nternationally renowned Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, translated by Alexis Levitin.
• Poetry by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Ada Limón; Guggenheim Fellows Paul Guest and Mark Halliday; Ruth Lilly Fellow Marcus Wicker; William Carlos Williams Awardwinner Martha Collins; Rilke Prize winner David Keplinger; NEA Fellows Michael Bazzett, Brian Henry, Lance Larsen, Alex Lemon, Jenny Molberg, and Corey Van Landingham; as well as Kelli Russell Agodon, Abdul Ali, Sean Cho A., Michael Dumanis, Chanda Feldman, Melissa Ginsburg, Matty Layne Glasgow, Niki Herd, Alicia Mountain, Lis Sanchez, Indriani Sengupta, and many others.
• Fiction by Madeline Haze Curtis, Maria Poulatha, Alyssa Quinn, Kate Weinberg, and Tara Isabel Zambrano.
• Nonfiction by Brooke Barry and Robert Long Foreman.
• The cover features a recent piece by Minneapolis-based artist Dyani White Hawk, whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Walker Art Center, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and elsewhere.
Trade ReviewCopper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited
by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Jury and
Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo’s
Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of the novel Remind Me Again What Happened and the
story collection The Beach at Galle Road)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of Vanishing
Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of The Octopus Game and The
Diminishing House), and fiction editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth), Alexander
Lumans (whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review, Story
Quarterly, and elsewhere), and Christopher Merkner (author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican
Domestic).
Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been regularly selected for
inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart
Prize Anthology, and has often been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays.
Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the Nobel
Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Pulitzer Prize; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award;
the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California, Colorado,
Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the Prix Max Jacob; the
Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; the
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as fellowships from the NEA
and the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and
Jerome Foundations.
Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationally to
bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media Solutions, LLC.
