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. This 21st issue of
Copper Nickel features poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including work
by National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
James Richardson; Anisfield-Wolf Award recipient Martha Collins; Alice
Fay Di Castagnola Award winner Jehanne Dubrow; Guggenheim Fellow Mark
Halliday; NEA Fellows David Hernandez, Henry Israeli, and Kevin Prufer;
PEN/O. Henry Prize recipient Polly Rosenwaike; James Laughlin Award
winner Tony Hoagland; James Merrill Fellow Anna B. Sutton; Lambda
Literary Award winner Julie Marie Wade; Lannan Foundation Fellow Ed
Skoog; as well as a number of writers at earlier stages in their
careers. The issue also includes three "Translation Folios" introducing
and contextualizing for an American audience the Chinese poet Yi Lu, the
Danish fiction writer Christina Hesselholdt, and three Uruguayan poets:
Laura Cesarco Eglin, Circe Maia, and Karen Wild.
The cover of Issue 21 features new work by renowned artist, musician,
and composer Mark Mothersbaugh.