Copper Nickel Issue 38

<p><b><i><span>Copper Nickel</span></i></b><span> is the <b>national literary journal housed at the</b> <b>University of Colorado Denver</b>. It is <b>edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller</b> (author of five collections, including <i>We the Jury</i> and <i>Post-</i>, coeditor of <i>Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century</i>, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo’s <i>Zodiac</i>) and <b>co-editor</b> <b>Joanna Luloff</b> (author of <i>Remind Me Again What Happened </i>and <i>The Beach at Galle Road</i>)—along with <b>poetry editors Brian Barker</b> (author of <i>Vanishing Acts</i>, <i>The Black Ocean</i>, and <i>The Animal Gospels</i>) <b>and Nicky Beer </b>(author of <i>Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes</i>, <i>The Octopus Game</i> and <i>The Diminishing House</i>), and <b>fiction editors Teague Bohlen</b> (author of <i>The Pull of the Earth</i>), <b>Christopher Merkner</b> (author of <i>The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic</i>), and <b>Emily Wortman-Wunder</b> (author of <i>Not a Thing to Comfort You</i>).</span></p><p><span>Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, <b>work published in <i>Copper Nickel</i> has been regularly selected for inclusion in <i>Best American Poetry</i>, <i>Best American Short Stories</i>, <i>Best Small Fictions</i>, <i>Best Literary Translations</i>, and the <i>Pushcart Prize Anthology</i></b>, and has often been listed as<b> “notable” in the <i>Best American Essays</i></b>. According to Clifford Garstang’s 2023 literary journal rankings, <i>Copper Nickel</i> is <b>ranked number 10 for poetry</b> and <b>number 34 for fiction</b>, out of <b>more than 700 regularly publishing literary journals</b>.</span></p><p><b><span>Contributors to <i>Copper Nickel</i> have received numerous honors for their work</span></b><span>, including the <b>Nobel Prize</b>; the <b>National Book Critics Circle Award</b>; the <b>Pulitzer Prize</b>; the <b>Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award</b>; the <b>Kate Tufts Discovery Award</b>; the <b>Laughlin Award</b>; the <b>American, California</b>,<b> Colorado</b>,<b> Minnesota</b>,<b> and Washington State Book Awards</b>; the <b>Georg Büchner Prize</b>; the <b>Prix Max Jacob</b>; the <b>Griffin Poetry Prize</b>; the <b>Lenore Marshall Prize</b>; the <b>T. S. Eliot </b>and <b>Forward Prizes</b>; the <b>Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</b>; the <b>Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award</b>; the <b>Lambda Literary Award</b>; as well as <b>fellowships from the NEA </b>and the <b>MacArthur</b>, <b>Guggenheim</b>, <b>Ingram Merrill</b>, <b>Witter Bynner</b>, <b>Soros</b>, <b>Rona Jaffee</b>, <b>Bush</b>, and <b>Jerome Foundations</b>.</span></p><p><b><i><span>Copper Nickel</span></i></b><span> is <b>published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15</b>, and is <b>distributed nationally </b>to bookstores and other outlets <b>by Publishers Group West (PGW) </b>and <b>Accelerate 360</b>.</span></p><p><i><span>Issue 38 Includes:</span></i></p><p><b><span>• A Symposium on the work of poet Reginald Shepherd</span></b><span>, featuring <b>seven poems by Shepherd</b> and <b>critical appraisals</b> by National Book Award–winner <b>Robin Coste Lewis</b>, National Book Award–finalist <b>Tommye Blount</b>, Rilke Prize–winner <b>Rick Barot</b>, PEN Open Book Margins Award–winner <b>Timothy Liu</b>, Guggenheim Fellow <b>Paisley Rekdal</b>, <b>Lama Rod Owens</b>, <b>Camille Rankine</b>, and <b>Charles Stephens</b>.</span></p><p><b><span>• Translation Folios </span></b><span>with work by <b>South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon</b>, translated by Cindy Juyong Ok; <b>Italian poet Vivian Lamarque</b>, translated by Geoffrey Brock; <b>German poet Jan Wagner</b>, translated by David Keplinger; <