Synopsis "Copper Nickel (26)"
Copper Nickel is a meeting place for multiple aesthetics, bringing work that engages with our social and historical context to the world with original pieces and dynamic translations.Issue 26 of Copper Nickel features a diverse collection including translation "folios" of work by Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Gaugen, Franco-Algerian poet Samira Negrouche, and Austrian poet Elisabeth Schmeidel; poems by National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Ada Limón, four-time Pushcart Prize winner Kevin Prufer, Yale Younger Poetry Series winner Fady Joudah, National Poetry Series winner Noah Eli Gordon, Canto Mundo fellow Rosebud Ben-Oni, NEA fellows James Hoch, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Melissa Stein, Rockefeller Foundation fellow Robert Wrigley, Lambda Literary Award winner Maureen Seaton, as well as numerous emerging poets; fiction by Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award recipient Ladee Hubbard, Story Prize finalist Daphne Kalotay, as well as emerging writers Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, Emily Chiles, and Gianni Skaragas; and nonfiction by NEA fellows Don Bogen and James Allen Hall, Kudiman Fellow Shamala Gallagher, Best American Essays contributor Matthew Vollmer, and newcomer Sari Boren.The cover features work by Denver-based artist Rebecca Berlin.
