Copper Nickel Issue 35

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 Bchner 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.