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 28 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.
