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 27 is particularly international--even for Copper Nickel--and
features an expansive folio of younger and less-established Irish and UK
poets, including Irish poets Martin Dyar, Elaine Feeney, Victoria
Kennefick, Conor O'Callaghan, Paul Perry, Stephen Sexton, Lorna
Shaughnessy, and Jessica Traynor; and UK poets James Byrne, Vahni
Capildeo, Manuela Moser, Sam Riviere, Zoë Brigley Thompson, and Chrissy
Williams. The oldest poet in the folio was born in 1968; the youngest
poets were born in the 1990s.
Issue 27 also features three translation folios (which are a regular
feature in Copper Nickel): (1) a group of five prose poems by Danish
poet Carsten Rene Nielsen (b. 1966), translated and introduced by David
Keplinger; (2) three longer poems by Mexican poet Cristina Rivera Garza
(b. 1964), translated by Julia Leverone; and (3) four poems by Mauritian
poet Khal Torabully (b. 1956), translated and introduced by Nancy Naomi
Carlson.
This issue also includes fiction by Farah Ali, Amy Stuber, Jyotsna
Sreenivasan, and Jacinda Townsend.
Nonfiction includes a personal essay on Günter Grass by poet and German
translator Stuart Friebert, a lyric essay on hexes by Laughlin award
winner Kathryn Nuernberger, and a lyric essay on hide-and-seek by Ira
Sukrungruang. Poets in issue 27 include two-time Pushcart Prize winner
T. R. Hummer, NEA Fellow Christopher Kempf, Kingsley Tufts Award winner
John Koethe, Whitman Award winner Emily Skaja, Best American Poetry
contributor Corey Van Landingham, Jenny Boychuk, Juan Morales, Paul
Otremba, Paige Quiñones, Arthur Russell, Francis Santana, and Chelsea
Wagenaar.
The cover features work by Denver-based photographer Kristen Hatgi Sink.
