Copper Nickel Issue 37. This item is unavailable.Copper Nickel Issue 37

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 Locations

Contributors 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 and

Maureen Seaton)

Los Angeles, CA (contributors William Archila, Mark Irwin, and Michael Mark; contributing editors

Victoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Chris Santiago)

Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributors Mair Allen and Michael

Bazzett; 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 Robert

Archambeau)

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, Uruguay

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Mexico City, MX

San Bernardo, Chile

Turin, Italy

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan