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. Since the journal's
relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been selected
for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories,
and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has been listed as "notable" in
the Best American Essays. Contributors to Copper Nickel have
received numerous honors for their work, including the National Book
Critics Circle Award; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; the Kate Tufts
Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California, Colorado,
Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize;
the Prix Max Jacob; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and
Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; the Alice Fay Di
Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as fellowships from
the NEA and the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona
Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations. Issue 24 features twenty-two
"flash fictions" by established and emerging fiction writers, including
Ed Falco, Robert Long Foreman, Stephanie Dickinson, Pedro Ponce, Matthew
Salesses, Ruth Joffre, Danielle Lazarin, Joseph Aguilar, Thomas
Legendre, Patricia Murphy, Wendy Oleson, Alicita Rodríguez, and Thaddeus
Rutkowski. Also featured are translation folios by Italian experimental
poet and computer scientist Lorenzo Carlucci, Brazilian poet and PEN
Brazil National Prize Winner Denise Emmer, and internationally renowned
Russian poet Tatiana Shcherbina. Other contributors include poets Kaveh
Akbar, Adam Tavel, David Dodd Lee, Kerri French, Ashley Keyser, Ryan
Sharp, Kevin Craft, J. Allyn Rosser, Zeina Hashem Beck, Ed Bok Lee, John
A. Nieves, &c.; fiction writers Bradley Bazzle, Erin Kate Ryan, and T.
D. Storm; and nonfiction writers Aimée Baker, Dan Beachy-Quick, and S.
Farrell Smith.
