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 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 43 Includes:
• A Feature Poetry Folio on Queer+ Ekphrasis, with poems by Derrick Austin, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Stephanie Burt, Jason B. Crawford, Meg Day, Blas Falconer, Benjamin Garcia, James Allen Hall, Elizabeth Hoover, Donika Kelly, Rajiv Mohabir, Emilia Phillips, Leslie Sainz, Sun Young Shin, and David Woo.
• A Feature Translation Folio on Iranian Post-Revolution Poets Fereshteh Sari and Mehrdad Fallah, introduced and translated by Kaveh Bassiri.
• Translation Folios by Palestinian poet Dalia Taha, translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel; Swiss fiction writer Adelheid Duvanel, translated from German by Tyler Schroeder; and Jordanian fiction writer Hisham Bustani, translated from Arabic by Alice Guthrie.
• New Poetry by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kevin Prufer; NEA Fellows Lance Larsen, Mark Neely, and Michael Torres; Canto Mundo Fellow Felicia Zamora; Cave Canem Fellow Lorraine Rice; Jake Adam York Prize winner Christopher Brean Murray; Best New Poetry contributor