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Issue 30 includes:Fiction by Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy contributor Helena Bell, Vincent Czyz, Maureen Langloss, and Lucas Southworth.Nonfiction by NEA and Camargo Foundation Fellow Don Bogen, death row inmate and essayist Lyle May, Bill Marsh, and Lesley Wheeler.Poetry by NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav, Bruce Bond, and Jenny Browne; PEN Discovery Award winner Andrea Cohen; Gregory O’Donogue International Prize winner Shangyang Fang; MacArthur “Genius” Edward Hirsch; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Troy Jollimore; Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock; Rilke Prize winner David Keplinger; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Erika Meitner; Iowa Prize winner Alicia Mountain; Best New Poets contributor Shakthi Shrima, and many others.Translation Folios featuring short fiction by Bangladeshi writer Ruma Modak (trans. Shabnam Nadiya), and poetry by Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch (trans. Donnna Spruijt-Metz), Polish poet Tomasz Różycki (trans. Mira Rosenthal), and Israeli poet Maya Tevet Dayan (trans. Jane Medved). The cover features work by Denver-based artist Kate Petley, who has been featured in twenty-seven solo exhibitions and has received an NEA Rockefeller Foundation Grant (among other honors).

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Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations. Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays. Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award; 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 Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations. Issue 24 features twenty-two “flash fictions” by established and emerging fiction writers, including Ed Falco, Robert Long Foreman, Stephanie Dickinson, Pedro Ponce, Matthew Salesses, Ruth Joffre, Danielle Lazarin, Joseph Aguilar, Thomas Legendre, Patricia Murphy, Wendy Oleson, Alicita Rodríguez, and Thaddeus Rutkowski. Also featured are translation folios by Italian experimental poet and computer scientist Lorenzo Carlucci, Brazilian poet and PEN Brazil National Prize Winner Denise Emmer, and internationally renowned Russian poet Tatiana Shcherbina. Other contributors include poets Kaveh Akbar, Adam Tavel, David Dodd Lee, Kerri French, Ashley Keyser, Ryan Sharp, Kevin Craft, J. Allyn Rosser, Zeina Hashem Beck, Ed Bok Lee, John A. Nieves, &c.; fiction writers Bradley Bazzle, Erin Kate Ryan, and T. D. Storm; and nonfiction writers Aimée Baker, Dan Beachy-Quick, and S. Farrell Smith.

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Copper Nickel Issue 22 will feature three essays on contemporary publishing by Dalkey Archive Press founder John O'Brien, Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin, and Virginia Quarterly Review digital editor and Publishers Weekly columnist Jane Friedman. It will also include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Norma Farber First Book Award winner Cathy Linh Che, Alice Fay Di Castagnola winner G. C. Waldrep, Soros Foundation Fellow David Keplinger, California Book Award winner Alexandra Teague, Thom Gunn Award winner Charlie Bondhus, Hopwood fellow Rachel Richardson, and numerous emerging and established writers including Jaswinder Bolina, Elyse Fenton, and Bernard Farai Matambo. Additionally, the issue will include three "Translation Folios" introducing and contextualizing for an American audience work by renowned Turkish poet Haydar Ergulen, Georg Buchner Prize winner Karl Krolow, and Prix Max-Jacob winner Emmanuel Moses in translations by (respectively) Derick Mattern, Stuart Friebert, and National Book Award and Lenore Marshall Prize winner Marilyn Hacker. The cover of Issue 22 features work by Los Angeles-based artist Christina Stormberg.

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Copper 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 Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, 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, Best Literary Translations, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has often been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays. According to Clifford Garstang’s US literary journal rankings, Copper Nickel is ranked number 10 for poetry and number 34 for fiction, out of more than 700 regularly publishing literary journals. 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 Accelerate 360.Issue 37 Includes: • Poetry Translation Folios with work by Ukrainian poet Alex Averbuch, translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky; Russian poet Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel; and Italian fiction writer Elena Varvello, translated by Jennifer Panek. • A feature of poems by three South American poets—Claudia Magliano from Uruguay, Eliana Hernández Pachón from Colombia, and Úrsula Starke from Chile—edited by Jesse Lee Kercheval and featuring a Q&A with both the poets and the translators. • New Poetry by International Latino Book Award–winner William Archila; NEA Fellows Michael Bazzett and Amy Beeder; Lambda Literary Award–winner Benjamin S. Grossberg; Kate Tufts Discovery Award–finalist Julie Hanson; Grolier Prize–winner John Hodgen; four-time Pushcart Prize–winner Mark Irwin; Jake Adam York Prize–winners Yalie Saweda Kamara and Christopher Brean Murray; Audre Lorde Award–winners Meg Day and Maureen Seaton; relative newcomers Mansi Dahal, Christine Kwon, Weijia Pan, Patrick Wilcox, Alison Zheng; and many others. • New Fiction by Stephanie Carpenter, Becky Hagenston, Jacqueline Kolosov, and Luke Rolfes/ • New Essays by TS Eliot Award–winner and National Book Critics Circle Finalist Sinéad Morrissey and Anne P. Beatty. • Cover Art by New York–based Native-American “photo-weaving” artist, Sarah Sense.Contributor LocationsContributors to issue 37 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; contributors Andrew Hemmert andMaureen Seaton)Los Angeles, CA (contributors William Archila, Mark Irwin, and Michael Mark; contributing editorsVictoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Chris Santiago)Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributors Mair Allen and MichaelBazzett; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)Houston, TX (contributors Ayokunle Falomo, Christopher Brean Murray, and Weijia Pan;contributing editor Kevin Prufer)New York, NY (contributors Mansi Dahal, Eliana Herández Pachón, and Tyler Mills)Chicago, IL (contributors Oksana Maksymchuk and Michael Robins; contributing editor RobertArchambeau)San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributor Alison Zheng; contributing editor Randall Mann)Kansas City, MO (contributor Patrick Wilcox; contributing editor Robert Long Foreman)Greensboro, NC (contributor Anne P. Beatty; contributing editor Emilia Phillips)Dallas, TX (contributor Mag Gabbert; contributing editor Tarfia Faizullah)Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributing editors Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)Pittsburgh, PA (contributing editors Joy Katz and Kevin Haworth)Maryville, MO (contributors John Gallaher and Luke Rolphes)US Cities/Regions with single contributors:West Hartford, CT (contributor Benjamin S. Grossberg)Cedar Rapids, IA (contributor Julie Hanson)Dubuque, IA (contributor Jeannine Marie Pitas)New Orleans, LA (contributor Christine Kwon)Worcester, MA (contributor John Hodgen)Frederick, MD (contributor Elizabeth Knapp)Hannock, MI (contributor Stephanie Carpenter)Grand Rapids, MI (contributor L. S. Klatt)Starkville, MS (contributor Becky Hagenston)Raleigh, NC (contributor Meg Day)Omaha, NE (contributor Trey Moody)Albuquerque, NM (contributor Amy Beeder)Cincinnati, OH (contributor Yalie Saweda Kamara)Easton, PA (contributor Owen McLeod)Lubbock, TX (contributor Jacqueline Kolosov)Lexington, VA (contributor Seth Michelson)Bellingham, WA (contributor Jeffrey Morgan)Ellensburg, WA (contributor Maya Jewell Zeller)Eau Claire, WI (contributor Dorothy Chan)Madison, WI (contributor Jesse Lee Kercheval)Ottawa, Ontario (contributor Jennifer Panek)Philadelphia, PA (contributing editor Adrienne Perry)Washington, DC (contributing editor David Keplinger)Boca Raton, FL (contributing editor A. Papatya Bucak)Boise, ID (contributing editor Emily Ruskovich)Lexington, KY (contributing editor Ada Limón)Princeton, NJ (contributing editor James Richardson)Canton, NY (contributing editor Pedro Ponce)Saint Louis, MO (contributing editor Niki Herd)Missoula, MT (contributing editor Sean Hill)Tulsa, OK (contributing editor Kaveh Bassiri)Blacksburg, VA (contributing editor Janine Joseph) International contributors live in:Montevideo, UruguayNewcastle-upon-Tyne, UKMexico City, MXSan Bernardo, ChileTurin, ItalyBishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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The narrators in this mesmerizing collection often desire to hold time still -- in moments of love, yes, but also when feeling fully located in a particular place or experience. Yet they also acknowledge that to hold time still would mean the death of love, the death of experience. Thus, the grounding and locating sensory images that surround us -- and the eye that apprehends them -- become greatly important. At the heart of the book is "What Night Says to the Empty Boat," a sequence of lyric poems in which the three main characters -- Justine, Clarence, and Andy -- drift to and from, together and apart, viewed through the dispassionate lens of the unspoken fourth main character. An artistic and philosophical endeavor to place oneself in the world, this stunning collection is a wholehearted embrace of being, where technique and subject come together in a remarkable combination of personal lyric and formal innovation.

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Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations. A nationally distributed literary journal housed at the University of Colorado, Denver, Copper Nickel was Founded by poet Jake Adam York in 2002. On hiatus since York's sudden death in 2012, it is now being revitalized under the editorship of Wayne Miller, the former Editor-in-Chief (2010-14) of the award winning journal Pleiades. Working with Miller are poetry editors Brian Barker and Nicky Beer, and fiction editors Teague Bohlen and Joanna Luloff. Starting in 2015, Copper Nickel will be published twice a year, in March and September. Copper Nickel 20 -- the first issue produced by this new staff -- will feature poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including work by National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poets Troy Jollimore and D. A. Powell; National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka; National Poetry Series winner Erika Meitner; along with Pushcart Prize winners, Guggenheim Fellows, and many other decorated writers. The issue will also feature two Translation Folios, focused on Cape Verdean poet Corsino Fortes and German poet Jan Wagner.

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Issue 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, theSmithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and elsewhere.

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About Issue 33 After a double issue in fall 2020 and a hiatus in the spring, issue 33 is a larger issue than normal, featuring a symposium on Ciaran Carson, five translations folios, and poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by established and emerging American writers. The issue includes: • A Symposium on Irish Poet Ciaran Carson, with appreciations by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Troy Jollimore, Guggenheim fellows Marianne Boruch and Connie Voisine, Forward Prize winner Stephen Sexton, NPR poetry commentator Tess Taylor, two-time NEA fellow Sandra Alcosser, Camargo Foundation Fellow Don Bogen, and Kavanagh Fellow Paul Perry. • Translation Folios featuring poetry by Italian poet Mariangela Gualtieri (translated by Olivia Sears), Mexican poet Verónica González Arredondo (translated by Allison deFreese), and Polish poet Jerzy Jarniewicz (translated by Piotr Florczyk); ghost stories by 18th century Chinese fiction writer Ji Yun (translated by John Yu Branscum and Yi Izzy Yu); and an essay by Japanese postwar writer Endō Shūsaku (translated by Miho Nonaka). • Poetry by Guggenheim Fellows Dan Beachy-Quick and Marianne Boruch; NEA Fellows Sean Hill, Jason Koo, and Rachel Richardson; Jake Adam York Prize winner John McCarthy; Vassar Miller Prize winner Owen McLeod; Oregon Book Award winner Matthew Minicucci; two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Ellen Samuels; Lindquist & Vennum Prize winner Chris Santiago; Richard Wilbur Award winner Adam Tavel; Leia Darwish; Steven Espada Dawson; Emilia Phillips; Stephanie Rogers; Martha Silano; Roy White; and many others. • Fiction by Francine Ringold Award winner Sruthi Narayan, three-time Pushcart Prize winner Alan Michael Parker, Tyler Barton, Ariel Katz, Grey Wolfe LaJoie, Dan Leach, and Julian Zabalbeascoa. • Nonfiction by NEA Fellow Matthew Vollmer, Danielle Cadena Deulen & Shara Lessley, and Dustin Parsons. • The cover features work by Los Angeles-based artist Panteha Abareshi, whose work was written about in the New York Times in March 2021.

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The poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe, thrumming with pathos and humor, pain and the beauty of living. Post- coalesces around three primary occurrences: the birth of a child, the death of a father, and the seeming explosion of sociohistorical and political conflict and violence over the past fifteen years. Its world is one populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees, where the only inheritance a father has to pass on is his debt, where a car left in an airport parking lot and the coffee cup inside are more immediate presences of the dead. Young rioters leave chaos behind each evening, returning home to watch themselves on the evening news. The unzipping of snow from train tracks evokes the surgery of a family member. Lovers, drinking wine and rowing on a lake, find joy within and without a system that sees them only as consumers. Beginnings and endings, loss and rebirth, body and spirit: in Post-, Miller processes grief, but also cuts through pain, gorgeously and heartbreakingly, to open up a way forward. Winter permeates these poems--and yet spring is always beckoning in the next.

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Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations.Issue 28 includes:Fiction by Preeta Samarasan, whose debut novel Evening Is the Whole Day was translated into 15 languages; Asako Serizawa, who has received a Pushcart Prize and two O. Henry Prizes; Scottish fiction writer Kirsty Logan; and NEA Fellow Sarah Strickley.Nonfiction by Guggenheim and NEA fellow Paisley Rekdal; novelist Sheena McAuliffe; and poets Rebecca Lehman and Celia Bland.Poetry by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Edward Hirsch; regular NPR reviewer Tess Taylor; Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Gary Jackson; Guggenheim fellow Geoffrey Brock; co-founder of VIDA Ann Townsend; Stegner fellow Brian Tierney; NEA fellows Sandra Beasley and Michael Bazzett; Yale Younger winner Sean Singer; Best American Poetry contributor Andrew Feld; author of four poetry collections Heather Christle and author of three collections Catherine Pierce; and numerous emerging poets, such as Dominica Phetteplace, Mejdulene B. Shomali, and Samuel Cheney.Translation Folios featuring work by Israeli poet and editor of the newspaper Haaretz Eli Eliahu, translated by Marcela Sulak; Younger French poet Muriel Pic, writing about the massive, ruined Nazi vacation structure Rügen, and translated by Samuel Martin; contemporary German poet Ute Von Funcke, translated by Stuart Friebert; and ancient Roman poet Martial in new, highly contemporary translations by Tyler Goldman.The cover features work by New York-based artist Xaviera Simmons, whose work has been shown at the MoMA and MoMA PS1 (NYC); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, among other venues.

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Copper Nickel issue 23 will feature poetry by two-time Pushcart Prize winner Jennifer Atkinson, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Adrian Blevins, National Poetry Series winner Justin Boening, renowned poet and critic Stephen Burt, Ruth Lilly Fellow Chloe Honum, two-time NEA Fellow Christopher Howell, Lambda Literary Award finalist Randall Mann, Stegner Fellow L.S. McKee, and Guggenheim Fellow Eric Pankey, as well as emerging voices such as Belfast, Northern Ireland, based poet Andrew Deloss Eaton and Hong Kong based poet Nicholas Wong; fiction by George Brookings, Dan Mancilla, Evelyn Sommers, and Liz Wyckoff; nonfiction by Bangladeshi-American writer Anuradha Bhowmik and NEA Fellow Traci Brimhall; and translation folios featuring Polish poet, critic, and scholar of Roma culture Jerzy Ficowski (translated by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer), Bosnian visual and performance artist Šoba (translated by Paula Gordon) who “publishes” his prose on facebook, and Polish poet Gzegorz Wróblewski (translated by Piotr Gwiazda).The cover of Issue 23 features collage work by Denver-based visual artist Mario Zoots.

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Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for PoetryA boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another’s thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in We the Jury: the hard ones, the impossible ones.From an academic dinner party disturbing in its crassness and disaffection to a family struggling to communicate gently the permanence of death, Miller situates his poems in dilemma. He faces moments of profound discomfort, grief, and even joy with a philosopher’s curiosity, a father’s compassion, and an overarching inquiry at the crossroads of ethics and art: what is the poet’s role in making sense of human behavior? A bomb crater–turned–lake “exploding with lilies,” a home lost during the late-aughts housing crash—these images and others, powerful and resonant, attempt to answer that question.Candid and vulnerable, Miller sits with us while we puzzle: we all wish we knew what to tell our children about death. But he also pushes past this and other uncertainties, vowing—and inviting us—to “expand our relationship / with Death,” and with every challenging, uncomfortable subject we meet. In the face of questions that seem impossible to answer, We the Jury offers not a shrug, but curiosity, transparency, a throwing of the arms wide.

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A William Carlos William Award Finalist for 2012 A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012 A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on "the City." It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city--past, present, and future--ring out with urgency. These poems--in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful--give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City's immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.

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Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations.Issue 27 is particularly international—even for Copper Nickel—and features an expansive folio of younger and less-established Irish and UK poets, including Irish poets Martin Dyar, Elaine Feeney, Victoria Kennefick, Conor O'Callaghan, Paul Perry, Stephen Sexton, Lorna Shaughnessy, and Jessica Traynor; and UK poets James Byrne, Vahni Capildeo, Manuela Moser, Sam Riviere, Zoë Brigley Thompson, and Chrissy Williams. The oldest poet in the folio was born in 1968; the youngest poets were born in the 1990s. Issue 27 also features three translation folios (which are a regular feature in Copper Nickel): (1) a group of five prose poems by Danish poet Carsten Rene Nielsen (b. 1966), translated and introduced by David Keplinger; (2) three longer poems by Mexican poet Cristina Rivera Garza (b. 1964), translated by Julia Leverone; and (3) four poems by Mauritian poet Khal Torabully (b. 1956), translated and introduced by Nancy Naomi Carlson. This issue also includes fiction by Farah Ali, Amy Stuber, Jyotsna Sreenivasan, and Jacinda Townsend. Nonfiction includes a personal essay on Günter Grass by poet and German translator Stuart Friebert, a lyric essay on hexes by Laughlin award winner Kathryn Nuernberger, and a lyric essay on hide-and-seek by Ira Sukrungruang. Poets in issue 27 include two-time Pushcart Prize winner T. R. Hummer, NEA Fellow Christopher Kempf, Kingsley Tufts Award winner John Koethe, Whitman Award winner Emily Skaja, Best American Poetry contributor Corey Van Landingham, Jenny Boychuk, Juan Morales, Paul Otremba, Paige Quiñones, Arthur Russell, Francis Santana, and Chelsea Wagenaar. The cover features work by Denver-based photographer Kristen Hatgi Sink.

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This 21st issue of Copper Nickel features poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including work by National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist James Richardson; Anisfield-Wolf Award recipient Martha Collins; Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner Jehanne Dubrow; Guggenheim Fellow Mark Halliday; NEA Fellows David Hernandez, Henry Israeli, and Kevin Prufer; PEN/O. Henry Prize recipient Polly Rosenwaike; James Laughlin Award winner Tony Hoagland; James Merrill Fellow Anna B. Sutton; Lambda Literary Award winner Julie Marie Wade; Lannan Foundation Fellow Ed Skoog; as well as a number of writers at earlier stages in their careers. The issue will also include three "Translation Folios" introducing and contextualizing for an American audience the Chinese poet Yi Lu, the Danish fiction writer Christina Hesselholdt, and three Uruguayan poets: Laura Cesarco Eglin, Circe Maia, and Karen Wild. The cover of Issue 21 features new work by renowned artist, musician, and composer Mark Mothersbaugh.

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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.

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Issue 29 includes fiction by Berlin Prize winner and NEA Fellow V.V. Ganeshananthan, as well as relative newcomers Kimberly Garza, Maria Kuznetsova, Sam Simas, and Jennifer Wortman. Nonfiction by Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses contributor Paul Crenshaw and experimental lyric prose writer Debra Di Blasi. Poetry by Roethke Memorial Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow David Baker, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner Martha Collins, Rome Prize winner Mark Halliday, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Janice N. Harrington, Jake Adam York Prize winner Brooke Matson, NEA Fellows Kaveh Bassiri and Matt Morton, Cité Internationale des Arts Fellow Jacques J. Rancourt, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner Natasha Sajé, as well as Jan Beatty, TR Brady, Jenna Le, Samantha Lê, John A. Nieves, Roy White, and many others. Translation Folios featuring short fiction by Galician writer Xavier Queipo, translated by Jacob Rogers; and poetry by Catalan poet Gemma Gorga, translated by Sharon Dolin; Chinese dissident poet Shen Haobo, translated by Liang Yuing; and Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger, translated by Brian Henry. The cover features work by Denver-based artist Michael Gadlin, who was educated at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and whose work has been shown all over Denver, as well as in New York City and France. Gadlin is represented by K Contemporary Gallery in Denver.

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Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations.Issue 26 of Copper Nickel features a diverse collection including translation “folios” of work by Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Gaugen, Franco-Algerian poet Samira Negrouche, and Austrian poet Elisabeth Schmeidel; poems by National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Ada Limón, four-time Pushcart Prize winner Kevin Prufer, Yale Younger Poetry Series winner Fady Joudah, National Poetry Series winner Noah Eli Gordon, Canto Mundo fellow Rosebud Ben-Oni, NEA fellows James Hoch, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Melissa Stein, Rockefeller Foundation fellow Robert Wrigley, Lambda Literary Award winner Maureen Seaton, as well as numerous emerging poets; fiction by Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award recipient Ladee Hubbard, Story Prize finalist Daphne Kalotay, as well as emerging writers Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, Emily Chiles, and Gianni Skaragas; and nonfiction by NEA fellows Don Bogen and James Allen Hall, Kudiman Fellow Shamala Gallagher, Best American Essays contributor Matthew Vollmer, and newcomer Sari Boren.The cover features work by Denver-based artist Rebecca Berlin.

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Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations.Issue 25 of Copper Nickel is aesthetically diverse, featuring translation “folios” by 12th century Chinese poet Li Qingzhao, Chilean Nobel Prize-winner Gabriela Mistral, and Iranian short story writer Payam Yazdanjoo; poetry by Dilruba Ahmed, Michael Bazzett, Talia Bloch, Graham Foust, John Gallaher, Tony Hoagland, Cynthia Hogue, Ashley Keyser, Sara Eliza Johnson, Peter LaBerge, Shara Lessley, Adrian C. Louis, Kevin Prufer, Elizabeth Scanlon, Analicia Sotelo, Juned Subhan, Ellen Doré Watson, Lesley Wheeler, &c.; fiction by Meagan Ciesla, Viet Dinh, Joel Morris, Joanna Pearson, and Pete Stevens; and nonfiction by Robert Archambeau, Alex McElroy, and Hasanthika Sirisena.The cover of this issue features work by Denver-based painter and collagist Daisy Patton.

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Copper 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 Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, 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. Issue 35 Includes: • Poetry Translation Folios with work by four 21st century female poets: emerging Korean poet Kim Yurim, translated by Megan Sungyoon; emerging Spanish poet Beatriz Miralles de Imperial, translated by Layla Benitez-James; Khazakhstani Russian-Language poet Aigerim Tazhi, translated by J. Kates; and emerging Italian poet Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, translated by Gabriella Fee and Dora Malech. • New Poetry by National Book Award finalist Leslie Harrison; Kingsley Tufts Award-winner Angie Estes; Guggenheim Fellow Eric Pankey; Whiting Award-winner Joel Brouwer; Felix Pollack Prize-winner Emily Bludworth de Barrios; as well as emerging poets Ariana Benson, Chee Brossy, Dorsey Craft, Asa Drake, Anthony Immergluck, Luisa Maraadyan, Stephanie Niu, Ben Swimm, and many others. • New Fiction by recent NEA Fellow Sean Bernard and emerging writers Molly Beckwith Gutman, Chemutai Kiplagat, and Sean Madden. • New Essays by James Laughlin Prize-winner Kathryn Nuernberger and emerging essayist Despy Boutris.

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Zodiac is a bilingual sequence of poems loosely organized around the signs of the zodiac, which considers the turn of the millennium, the history of Albania and the Adriatic region, and the author's place in the universe as he confronts his own mortality and his decision to remain in his homeland after the fall of communism. Born in Durrës, Albania, in 1949, Moikom Zeqo is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction, as well as numerous monographs on Albanian history, literature, and culture. He served as Albania's minister of culture and directed the National Historical Museum in Tirana.

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Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation ever since, the current combination of technological developments, market pressures, and changing reading habits has led to an unprecedented paradigm shift in the world of books. Bringing together a wide range of perspectives -- industry veterans and provocateurs, writers, editors, and digital mavericks -- this invaluable collection reflects on the current situation of literary publishing, and provides a road map for the shifting geography of its future: How do editors and publishers adapt to this rapidly changing world? How are vibrant public communities in the Digital Age created and engaged? How can an industry traditionally dominated by white men become more diverse and inclusive? Mindful of the stakes of the ongoing transformation, Literary Publishing in the 21st Century goes beyond the usual discussion of 'print vs. digital' to uncover the complex, contradictory, and increasingly vibrant personalities that will define the future of the book.

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