Copper Nickel (28)

Product Description


Issue 28 of
Copper Nickel includes:


Fiction by Preeta Samarasan, whose debut novel
Evening Is the Whole Day was translated into 15 languages; Asako Serizawa, who has received a Pushcart Prize and two O. Henry Prizes; Scottish fiction writer Kirsty Logan; and NEA Fellow Sarah Strickley.


Nonfiction by Guggenheim and NEA fellow Paisley Rekdal; novelist Sheena McAuliffe; and poets Rebecca Lehman and Celia Bland.


Poetry by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Edward Hirsch; regular NPR reviewer Tess Taylor; Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Gary Jackson; Guggenheim fellow Geoffrey Brock; co-founder of VIDA Ann Townsend; Stegner fellow Brian Tierney; NEA fellows Sandra Beasley and Michael Bazzett; Yale Younger winner Sean Singer;
Best American Poetry contributor Andrew Feld; author of four poetry collections Heather Christle and author of three collections Catherine Pierce; and numerous emerging poets, such as Dominica Phetteplace, Mejdulene B. Shomali, and Samuel Cheney.


Translation Folios featuring work by Israeli poet and editor of the newspaper
Haaretz Eli Eliahu, translated by Marcela Sulak; Younger French poet Muriel Pic, writing about the massive, ruined Nazi vacation structure Rügen, and translated by Samuel Martin; contemporary German poet Ute Von Funcke, translated by Stuart Friebert; and ancient Roman poet Martial in new, highly contemporary translations by Tyler Goldman.

The cover features work by New York-based artist Xaviera Simmons, whose work has been shown at the MoMA and MoMA PS1 (NYC); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, among other venues.


Review


Recent Praise for Copper Nickel:

“The new
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.”
―Steph 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 its 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 w