Copper Nickel Issue 39
Published on 28. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-9862470-9-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 Buechner 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 39 Includes:
* A Translation Feature of poems from the Ravensbrueck Striped Uniform Book-a collection of anonymous poems written in Polish by women prisoners at the Ravensbrueck 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 Locations
Contributors to issue 39 come from all over the country and the world.
U.S. cities/regions where contributors and staff are concentrated include (organized
alphabetically 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, Rachel
Mennies)
Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributors Elizabeth Bradfield and Joanna Liu; contributing editors
Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (contributors Chelsea B. DesAutels and torin a. greathouse; home of
Milkweed 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 Limon) 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 Sebastian, Spain (contributor Karemalo C. Iribarren)
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 Buechner 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 39 Includes:
* A Translation Feature of poems from the Ravensbrueck Striped Uniform Book-a collection of anonymous poems written in Polish by women prisoners at the Ravensbrueck 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 Locations
Contributors to issue 39 come from all over the country and the world.
U.S. cities/regions where contributors and staff are concentrated include (organized
alphabetically 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, Rachel
Mennies)
Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributors Elizabeth Bradfield and Joanna Liu; contributing editors
Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (contributors Chelsea B. DesAutels and torin a. greathouse; home of
Milkweed 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 Limon) 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 Sebastian, Spain (contributor Karemalo C. Iribarren)
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Copper Nickel"Copper Nickel is terrific-of its time without being confined to its time, careful and thoughtful and never predictable, with the kind of internal variety that I want (and rarely get) from a litmag-not a pinlight or a penlight but a light that shines on a whole field. I'm happy to read it."-Stephanie Burt, author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry; Professor of English, Harvard University
"Through its combination of editorial acuity, serious belief in contemporary writing, and sheer handsomeness, Copper Nickel has established itself as the best new evidence of defiant vitality in the realm of literary journals."-Mark Halliday, author of six poetry collections, most recently Thresherphobe; Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio University
"Copper Nickel is THE literary magazine to read now. Since it's rebirth/relaunch every issue has had, inside its stunning cover, the fiction, poetry, nonfiction and works in translation any writer or lover of contemporary writing has to read. I confess: other magazines, even the New Yorker, often sit in my house unread. But Copper Nickel gets opened as quickly as a Christmas present!"-Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of five books of fiction, most recently the novel My Life as a Silent Movie, and seven poetry collections; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin
"Long regarded as one of the best literary magazines in the country, the relaunched Copper Nickel has only improved, publishing a diverse range of award-winning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in its first year. With each new issue Copper Nickel proves itself to be a wellspring of new American writing."-Nathan Oates, author of The Empty House; Associate Professor of English, Seton Hall University
"In the great spirit of the late Jake Adam York, Copper Nickel is back and more relevant than ever. Where else to turn for such a dynamic combination of contemporary writing? Brilliantly curated, the diversity of voices, new and established, not only spans aesthetic divides but includes translation portfolios, art and essays that address pressing concerns of writers working today."-Sally Keith, author of four poetry collections, most recently River House; Associate Professor of Creative Writing, George Mason University
"Copper Nickel is one of the most diverse, daring, and visually beautiful literary journals I've ever read. The fact that its relaunch has gained national recognition is no surprise-now more than ever, Copper Nickel is a goldmine for readers of contemporary poetry and prose."-Allison Benis White, author of three poetry collections, most recently Please Bury Me in This; 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; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of Missouri Kansas City
"Copper Nickel has been a great magazine for quite awhile, and it continues to get better. Aesthetically diverse, welcoming of both established and emerging writers, it's always worth a cover-to-cover read."-Martha Collins, author of ten poetry collections, most recently Admit One: An American Scrapbook; Professor Emerita, Oberlin College
"When I first encountered Copper Nickel , I was a hopeful graduate student looking for poems written by my peers to both resonate with me and challenge me. I found so many new heroes in the pages of Copper Nickel , and it also allowed me to encounter the work of its brilliant editors as well, including Jake Adam York. When Jake passed, I mourned both him and his vision. It's been thrilling to see Copper Nickel come back to life, and in its new alchemical form, it is as much if not more wide-seeing and enlivening as ever. I recommend it frequently to my students, colleagues, and lovers of engaging literature and art."-Tarfia Faizullah, author of the poetry collection Seam; Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, University of Michigan
"The newly relaunched Copper Nickel is certainly one of the most exciting literary magazines being published in the country today. The poems, stories, and essays are of the very highest quality and the editors' passion for a truly international vision of literature as well as for the discovery of new work by emerging authors shows in every issue. It's no surprise that this year's work from Copper Nickel has been selected for inclusion in three of the most prestigious annual anthologies in print: Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology."-Kevin Prufer, author of six poetry collections, most recently 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
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9862470-9-5 (9780986247095)
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Copper Nickel is edited by poet and translator Wayne Miller (author of Post- and The City, Our City, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and cotranslator of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac) as well as poetry editors Brian Barker and Nicky Beer, and prose editors Teague Bohlen and Joanna Luloff. He lives in Denver, CO.