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"These poems achieve the beautiful, uncanny fusing that Miller defines as poetry itself.”—Rick Barot, author of Moving the BonesA tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles and wonders of both childhood and parenthood against the backdrop of global violence.From accomplished poet Wayne Miller comes a collection examining how an individual’s story both hews to and defies larger socio-political narratives and the sweep of history. A cubist making World War I camouflage, a forlorn panel on the ethics of violence in literature, an obsessive litany of “late capitalist” activities, a military drone pilot driving home after work—here, the awkward, the sweet, and the disturbing often merge. And underlying it all is Miller’s own domestic life with two children, who highlight the hopeful and ingenious aspects of childhood, which is “not // as I had thought / the thicket of light back at the entrance // but the wind still blowing / invisibly toward me / through it.”The End of Childhood, Miller’s sixth collection of poems, is his most intimate, juxtaposing his own fraught youth with that of his children amid insurrection and pandemic, vacation and vocation, art and war. This piercing book spares nothing as it searches for a measure of personal benevolence and truth in today’s turbulent, brutalizing world—which it confronts through a singularly candid and lyrical voice.

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.

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.

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 Remind Me Again What Happened and 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), Christopher Merkner (author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic), and Emily Wortman-Wunder (author of Not a Thing to Comfort You).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 2024 literary journal rankings, Copper Nickel is ranked number 15 for poetry and number 35 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 Griffin Poetry Prize; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and ForwardPrizes; 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 39 Includes:• A Translation Feature of poems from the Ravensbrück Striped Uniform Book—a collection of anonymous poems written in Polish by women prisoners at the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp between 1939 and 1945.• Translation Folios with work by Egyptian poet Mona Kareem, translated by Sara Elkamel, and Spanish poet Karmelo C. Iribarren, translated by John R. Sesgo.• New Poetry by National Book Critics Circle Award–winners Mary Jo Bang and Cynthia Cruz, Fulbright Creative Writing Award–winner Mary Crow, Audre Lorde Prize–winner Elizabeth Bradfield, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award–winner Iain Haley Pollock, Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize–winner Bob Hicok, and many others, including Alex Chertok, Dorsey Craft, Rodney Gomez, Clemonce Heard, Rage Hezekiah, Oksana Maksymchuk, Rachel Mennies, Daniel Moysaenko, Eleanor Stanford, Zack Strait, and Matthew Tuckner.• New Fiction by two-time NEA Fellow Tara Ison, O. Henry Prize– and Pushcart Prize–winner L. Annette Binder, as well as Tierney Oberhammer, Chaitali Sen, and Isabelle Stillman.• New Essays by Kate Tufts Discovery Award–winner torrin a. greathouse and Pushcart Prize– winner Robert Long Foreman.• Cover Art by Brooklyn-based artist Madeline Donahue.Contributor LocationsContributors to issue 39 come from all over the country and the world.U.S. cities/regions where contributors and staff are concentrated include (organizedalphabetically by state):Los Angeles, CA (contributors Victoria Kornick and Isabelle Stillman; contributing editors Victoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Chris Santiago)San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributors Urvashi Bahuguna and Peter Kline; contributing editor Randall Mann)Washington, DC (contributor Sharanya Sharma, contributing editor David Keplinger) Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff)Chicago, IL (contributors Matt Del Busto, Chelsea Hill, Oksana Masksymchuk, RachelMennies)Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributors Elizabeth Bradfield and Joanna Liu; contributing editorsMartha Collins and Frederick Reiken)Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (contributors Chelsea B. DesAutels and torin a. greathouse; home ofMilkweed Editions; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)Saint Louis, MO (contributor Mary Jo Bang; contributing editor Niki Herd) Durham, NH (contributors L. Annette Binder and Abbie Kiefer)Ossining, NY (contributors Tierney Oberhammer and Iain Haley Pollock) Cleveland, OH (contributors Conor Bracken and Daniel Moysaenko)Tulsa, OK (contributor Clemonce Heard; contributing editor Kavey Bassiri) Philadelphia, PA (contributor Eleanor Stanford; contributing editor Adrienne Perry) Pittsburgh, PA (contributing editors Joy Katz and Kevin Haworth)Blacksburg, VA (contributor Bob Hicok; contributing editor Janine Joseph)U.S. cities/regions with individual contributors (organized alphabetically by state):Tempe, AZ (contributor Tara Ison)Fort Collins, CO (contributor Mary Crow)Boca Raton, FL (contributing editor A. Papatya Bucak) Jacksonville, FL (contributor Dorsey Craft)Atlanta, GA (contributor Jo Brachman)Rome, GA (contributor Zack Strait)Boise, ID (contributing editor Emily Ruskovich) Chicago, IL (contributing editor Robert Archambeau) Lexington, KY (contributing editor Ada Limón) Kingsville, MD (contributor Mickie Kennedy)Ann Arbor, MI (contributor Abigail, McFee)Kansas City, MO (contributor Robert Long Foreman)Missoula, MT (contributing editor Sean Hill) Wilmington, NC (contributor Melissa Crowe) Greensboro, NC (contributing editor Emilia Phillips) Princeton, NJ (contributing editor James Richardson) Canton, NY (contributing editor Pedro Ponce) Ithaca, NY (contributor Alex Cehrtok)Columbus, OH (contributor Adam J. Gellings) Cincinnati, OH (contributor Ben Kline)Lancaster, PA (contributor Nicholas Montemarano) Austin, TX (contributor Chaitali Sen)Dallas, TX (contributing editor Tarfia Faizullah) Denton, TX (contributor Lucas Jorgensen) Houston, TX (contributing editor Kevin Prufer) McAllen, TX (contributor Rodney Gomez) Provo, UT (contributor Michael Lavers)Salt Lake City, UT (contributor Matthew Tuckner) Pownal, VT (contributor Rage Hezekiah)International contributors live in:Sydney, Australia (contributor John R. Sesgo)Cairo, Egypt (contributors Sara Elkamel and Mona Kareem)Berlin, Germany (contributor Cynthia Cruz; contributing editor Alexander Lumans) San Sebastián, Spain (contributor Karemalo C. Iribarren)

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.

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.

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It isedited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Juryand Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of MoikomZeqo’s Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of the novel Remind Me Again What Happenedand the story collection The Beach at Galle Road)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author ofVanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of Real Phonies andGenuine 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 ShortFiction, 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 forinclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the PushcartPrize 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 NobelPrize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Pulitzer Prize; the Kingsley Tufts PoetryAward; the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California,Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the PrixMax Jacob; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-WolfBook Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well asfellowships 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 nationallyto 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 poetKim Yurim, translated by Megan Sungyoon; emerging Spanish poet Beatriz Miralles de Imperial,translated by Layla Benitez-James; Khazakhstani Russian-Language poet Aigerim Tazhi, translatedby J. Kates; and emerging Italian poet Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, translated by Gabriella Fee andDora Malech.• New Poetry by National Book Award finalist Leslie Harrison; Kingsley Tufts Award-winnerAngie Estes; Guggenheim Fellow Eric Pankey; Whiting Award-winner Joel Brouwer; Felix PollackPrize-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 DespyBoutris.

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 Remind Me Again What Happened and 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), Christopher Merkner (author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic), and Emily Wortman-Wunder (author of Not a Thing to Comfort You).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 2023 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 Griffin Poetry Prize; 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 38 Includes:• A Symposium on the work of poet Reginald Shepherd, featuring seven poems by Shepherd and critical appraisals by National Book Award–winner Robin Coste Lewis, National Book Award–finalist Tommye Blount, Rilke Prize–winner Rick Barot, PEN Open Book Margins Award–winner Timothy Liu, Guggenheim Fellow Paisley Rekdal, Lama Rod Owens, Camille Rankine, and Charles Stephens.• Translation Folios with work by South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, translated by Cindy Juyong Ok; Italian poet Vivian Lamarque, translated by Geoffrey Brock; German poet Jan Wagner, translated by David Keplinger; Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, translated by Khaled Mattawa.• New Poetry by Hurston/Wright Legacy Award–winner Myronn Hardy, Whiting Award–winner Diannely Antigua, Guggenheim Fellow Geoffrey Brock, Amy Lowell Fellow Rebecca Lindenberg, Rome Fellow Mark Halliday, Eric Gregory Award–winner James Conor Patterson, Alice Fay di Castagnola Award–winner Melissa Kwasny, Ruth Lilly Fellow Matthew Nienow, NEA Fellows Traci Brimhall and Chris Forhan, Iowa Poetry Prize–winner Stephanie Choi, and relative newcomers Mya Mateo Alexice, Katie Condon, Saúl Hernández, Dana Isokawa, James Jabar, Tyler Raso, and Cintia Santana.• New Fiction by Betty Gabehart Prize–winner Jennifer Militello, Fulbright Scholar Matthew Lawrence Garcia, Anthony M. Abboreno, Rebecca Entel, Xavier Balckwell-Lipkind, Randy F. Nelson, and Allyson Stack.• A New Essay by Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award–winner Hasanthika Sirisena.• Cover Art by Oakland-based artist Stephanie Syjuco.Contributor LocationsContributors to issue 38 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; contributor Cindy Juyong Ok)Los Angeles, CA (contributing editors Victoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson,and Chris Santiago)San Francisco Bay Area, CA (cover artist Stephanie Syjuco; contributing editor Randall Mann)Atlanta, GA (contributors Lama Rod Owens and Charles Stephens)Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributor Allison Adair; contributing editors Martha Collins andFrederick Reiken)Baltimore, MD (contributors Joseph J. Capista and Carol Quinn)Detroit, MI (contributors Tommye Blount and Isaac Pickell)Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributing editor V. V.Ganeshananthan)Missoula, MT (contributor Melissa Kwasny; contributing editor Sean Hill)Greensboro, NC (contributors James Jabar and Rhett Iseman Trull; contributing editor EmiliaPhillips)New York, NY (contributors Dana Isokawa and Maja Lukic)Pittsburgh, PA (contributors Jan Beatty and Camille Rankine; contributing editors Joy Katz andKevin Haworth)Dallas, TX (contributor Katie Condon; contributing editor Tarfia Faizullah)Seattle, WA (contributors Rick Barot and Matthew Nienow)US Cities/Regions with single contributors:West Hartford, CT (contributor Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind)Washington, DC (contributor David Keplinger)Boca Raton, FL (contributing editor A. Papatya Bucak)Davenport, IA (contributor Anthony M. Abboreno)Iowa City, IA (contributor Rebecca Entel)Boise, ID (contributing editor Emily Ruskovich)Chicago, IL (contributing editor Robert Archambeau)Indianapolis, IN (contributor Chris Forhan)Richmond, IN (contributor Christen Noel Kauffman)Bloomington, IN (contributor Tyler Raso)Manhattan, KS (contributor Traci Brimhall)Lexington, KY (contributing editor Ada Limón)Haverhill, MA (contributor Diannely Antigua)Lewiston, ME (contributor Myronn Hardy)Ann Arbor, MI (contributor Khaled Matttawa)Grand Rapids, MI (contributor Andrew Collard)Kansas City, MO (contributing editor Robert Long Foreman)Saint Louis, MO (contributing editor Niki Herd)Davidson, NC (contributor Randy F. Nelson)Lincoln, NE (contributor James Brunton)Manchester, NH (contributor Jennifer Millitello)Jersey City, NJ (contributor Mya Matteo Alexice)Princeton, NJ (contributing editor James Richardson)Canton, NY (contributing editor Pedro Ponce)Woodstock, NY (contributor Timothy Liu)Athens, OH (contributor Mark Halliday)Cincinnati, OH (contributor Rebecca Lindenberg)Tulsa, OK (contributing editor Kaveh Bassiri)Ashland, OR (contributor Cynthia Boersma)Selinsgrove, PA (contributor Hasanthika Sirisena)Philadelphia, PA (contributing editor Adrienne Perry)Greenville, SC (contributor Emily Cinquemani)Sewanee, TN (contributor Stephanie Choi)San Antonio, TX (contributor Saúl Hernández)St. George, UT (contributor Cindy King)Salt Lake City, UT (contributor Paisley Rekdal)Middlebury, VT (contributor Carolyn Orosz)Houston, TX (contributing editor Kevin Prufer)Blacksburg, VA (contributing editor Janine Joseph)International contributors live in:Düsseldorf, GERMANY (Matthew Lawrence Garcia)Milan, ITALY (Vivian Lamarque)Seoul, SOUTH KOREA (Kim Hyesoon)Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM (Allyson Stack)London, UNITED KINGDOM (James Conor Patterson)

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 six collections, including The End of Childhood and We the Jury, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo’s Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of Remind Me Again What Happened and 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), Christopher Merkner (author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic), and Emily Wortman-Wunder (author of Not a Thing to Comfort You).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 2024 literary journal rankings, Copper Nickel is ranked number 15 for poetry and number 35 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 Griffin Poetry Prize; 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 41 includes:• Translation Folios featuring poetry by American Mexican writer Sandro Cohen, translated by J. Kates and Stephen A. Sadow; poetry by Bangladeshi poet Umma Habiba, translated by Quamral Hassan; a story by emerging Kazakh writer Manshuk Kali, translated by Slava Faybysh; and flash fiction by contemporary Spanish writer Julia Viejo, translated by Jacob Rogers.• New Poetry by National Book Critics Circle Award finalists Rajiv Mohabir and Lia Purpura, Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Hayan Charara, William Carlos Williams Award winners Martha Collins and Kathy Fagan, Guggenheim Fellows Brian Komei Dempster and Eric Pankey, NEA Fellows Bruce Beasley and Emily Skaja, Robert Penn Warren Prize winner Ed Falco, Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington Award recipient Bruce Snider, Oregon Book Award winner Maxine Scates, and relative newcomers Rivka Clifton, Ángel Garcia, Carolina Hotchandani, Bo Hee Moon, Migwi Mwangi, and Elise Thi Tran. • New Fiction by Pushcart Prize recipient Ea Anderson, New York Times Editors’ Choice honoree Katherine Hill, Grace Paley Prize winner Mary Kuryla, Tony Elias, and Elise Levine.• New Essays by Lambda Literary Award winner James Allen Hall and Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer.• Cover Art by Denver-based interdisciplinary artist Jensina Endresen.Contributor LocationsContributors to issue 41 come from all over the country and the world. ———U.S. cities/regions where contributors and staff are concentrated include (organized alphabetically by state):Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff; contributor Rajiv Mohabir; cover artist Jensina Endresen)New York, NY (contributors Rhoni Blankenhorn, Michael Chang, Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Katherine Hill, Migwi Mwangi, Amy Roa, Jacob Rogers, and Nora Rose Tomas)Los Angeles, CA (contributor Mary Kuryla; contributing editors Victoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Chris Santiago)Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributors Martha Collins, J. Kates, and Stephen A. Sadow; contributing editor Frederick Reiken)Houston, TX (contributors Hayan Charara, Bo Hee Moon, and Matthew Weitman; contributing editor Kevin Prufer)San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributors Brian Komei Dempster and Jacques J. Rancourt; contributing editor Randall Mann)Chicago, IL (contributors Kathleen Rooney and Elise Thi Tran; contributing editor Robert Archambeau)Baltimore, MD (contributors Elise Levine, Lia Purpura, and Bruce Snider)Philadelphia, PA (contributors Henry Israeli and Steven Kleinman; contributing editor Adrienne Perry)Washington, DC (contributor Eric Pankey; contributing editor David Keplinger)Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)Kansas City, MO (contributors John Gallaher and Morgan Jenkins)Pittsburgh, PA (contributing editors Joy Katz and Kevin Haworth)Blacksburg, VA (contributor Ed Falco; contributing editor Janine Joseph)Seattle, WA (contributors Rivka Clifton and Tony Elias)———U.S. cities/regions with individual contributors (organized alphabetically by state):San Luis Obispo, CA (contributor Kevin Clark)New London, CT (contributor Charles O. Hartman)Tampa, FL (contributor Natalie Tombasco)Boise, ID (contributing editor Emily Ruskovich)Lexington, KY (contributing editor Ada Limón)Chestertown, MD (contributor James Allen Hall)Duluth, MN (contributor Ryan Vine)Saint Louis, MO (contributing editor Niki Herd)Missoula, MT (contributing editor Sean Hill)Asheville, NC (contributor Bruce Beasley)Greensboro, NC (contributing editor Emilia Phillips)Omaha, NE (contributor Carolina Hotchandani)Princeton, NJ (contributing editor James Richardson)Canton, NY (contributing editor Pedro Ponce)Cincinnati, OH (contributor James Matthew Ellenberger)Columbus, OH (contributor Kathy Fagan)Eugene, OR (contributor Maxine Scates)Tulsa, OK (contributing editor Kaveh Bassiri)Providence, RI (contributor Mary Robles)Memphis, TN (contributor Emily Skaja)Dallas, TX (contributing editor Tarfia Faizullah)Salt Lake City, UT (contributor Mike White)Bellingham, WA (contributor Jeffrey Morgan)Ellensburg, WA (contributor Maya Jewell Zeller)Appleton, WI (contributor Austin Segrest)———International contributors live in:Flayosc, France (contributor Ea Anderson)Berlin, Germany (contributing editor Alexander Lumans)Breisgau, Germany (contributor Stephanie Staab)Almati Kazakhstan (contributor Kali Manshuk)Galway, Ireland (contributor Nicole Olweean)Beirut, Lebanon (contributor Nur Turkmani)Madrid, Spain (contributor Julia Viejo)

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 six collections, including The End  of Childhood and We the Jury, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co translator of Moikom Zeqo’s Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of Remind Me Again What Happened and 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 Escaping Denver and The Pull of the Earth), Christopher Merkner (author of  The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic), and Emily Wortman-Wunder (author of Not a Thing to Comfort You). 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 been listed on many occasions  as “notable” in the Best American Essays. According to Clifford Garstang’s 2024 literary journal rankings, Copper Nickel is ranked number 11 for poetry and number 37 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 Griffin Poetry Prize; 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 42 Includes: • Translation Folios by Chilean poet Rolando Cárdenas (translated from the Spanish by July  Westhale), Québécois poet Bertrand Laverdure (translated from the French by slp pieplow), Afghan novelist Khosraw Mani (translated from the Afghan Persian by Hajar Hussaini), Cuban poet Osdany Morales (translated from the Spanish by Harry Bauld), and Sri Lankan fiction writer Shobasakthi (translated from the Tamil by N. Asokan). • New Poetry by National Book Award finalist Calvin Bedient; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Bob Hicok; Kingsley Tufts Prize winner Angie Estes; UNT Rilke Prize winner David Keplinger; Guggenheim fellow Michael Waters; NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav, Michael Bazzett, and Mark Irwin; Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist Erin Belieu; relative newcomers Lyn Li Che, Jordan Escobar, and Derek Otsuji; and many others. • New Fiction by O. Henry Prize recipient Valerie O’Riordan, John McGahern Award winner Niamh Mac Cabe, Colorado Book Award winner John Cotter, and relative newcomers Erin Pesut and Fortunato Salazar. • New Essays by Benjamin Saltman Award winner Matty Layne Glasgow and Best American Essays Notable Aaron Rabinowitz. • Cover Art by Denver-based artist Danielle SeeWalker. Contributor Locations Contributors to issue 42 come from all over the country and the world.  ——— U.S. cities/regions where contributors and staff are concentrated include (organized  alphabetically by state): Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff; contributor Graham Foust; cover artist Danielle SeeWalker) Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributors Michael Bazzett and Jessica Nordell; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan) Los Angeles, CA (contributors Calvin Bedient and Fortunato Salazar; contributing editors Victoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Chris Santiago) San Diego, CA (contributors Jordan Escobar, Peter Krumbach, and Michael Mark) Chicago, IL (contributor C. Pope; contributing editor Robert Archambeau) Kansas City, MO (contributors Hadara Bar-Nadav and Alice White) New York, NY (contributors Harry Bauld, Lyn Li Che, and Osany Morales) Philadelphia, PA (contributor Amy Thatcher; contributing editor Adrienne Perry) Houston, TX (contributor Erin Belieu; contributing editor Kevin Prufer) Blacksburg, VA (contributor Bob Hicok; contributing editor Janine Joseph) Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributing editors Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken) Pittsburgh, PA (contributing editors Joy Katz and Kevin Haworth) ——— U.S. cities/regions with individual contributors (organized alphabetically by state): Tucson, AZ (contributor July Westhale) Merced, CA (contributor Mai-Linh Hong) San Francisco, CA (contributing editor Randall Mann) Fort Collins, CO (contributor slp pieplow) Greeley, CO (contributor Mark Irwin) West Hartford, CT (contributor Benjamin S. Grosberg) New Haven, CT (contributor Margot Schilpp) Washington, DC (contributor David Keplinger) Ocala, FL (contributor Asa Drake) Rome, GA (contributor Zack Strait) Honolulu, HI (contributor Derek Otsuji) Urbana, IL (contributor Angie Estes) Boise, ID (contributing editor Emily Ruskovich)Lexington, KY (contributing editor Ada Limón) Amherst, MA (contributor Martha McCollough) Shrewsbury, MA (contributor John Hodgen) Belmont, ME (contributor Pamela Alexander) Ann Arbor, MI (contributor Christopher Matthews) Duluth, MN (contributor Rebecca Foust) Saint Louis, MO (contributing editor Niki Herd) Missoula, MT (contributing editor Sean Hill) Greensboro, NC (contributing editor Emilia Phillips) Ocean, NJ (contributor Michael Waters) Canton, NY (contributing editor Pedro Ponce) Princeton, NJ (contributing editor James Richardson) Saratoga Springs, NY (contributor Hajar Hussaini) Tulsa, OK (contributing editor Kaveh Bassiri) Canonsburg, PA (contributor George David Clark) Providence, RI (contributor John Cotter) Knoxville, TN (contributor Michael Pontacoloni) Nashville, TN (contributor Cara Dees) Dallas, TX (contributing editor Tarfia Faizullah) Salt Lake City, UT (contributor Matty Layne Glasgow) Brattleboro, VT (contributor Erin Pesut) Seattle, WA (contributor Vincent Rendoni) Green Bay, WI (contributor Sophie Bebeau) Laramie, WY (contributor Cady Favazzo) ——— International contributors live in: Paris, France (contributors Khosraw Mani and Shobasakthi) Quebec, Canada (contributor Bertrand Laverdure) Waterloo, Canada (contributor N. Asokan) Manchester, England (contributor Valerie O’Riordan) Berlin, Germany (contributing editor Alexander Lumans) Sligo, Ireland (contributor Niamh Mac Cabe)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 its 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 Emerita, 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; 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; Associate 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; Associate 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; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Texas “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 The Fears; 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 Deal: New & Selected Poems

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.