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.
Copper Nickel Issue 22 features three essays on contemporary
publishing by Dalkey Archive Press founder John O'Brien, Bookslut
founder Jessa Crispin, and Virginia Quarterly Review digital editor
and Publishers Weekly columnist Jane Friedman. It also includes
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Norma Farber First Book Award winner
Cathy Linh Che, Alice Fay Di Castagnola winner G. C. Waldrep, Soros
Foundation Fellow David Keplinger, California Book Award winner
Alexandra Teague, Thom Gunn Award winner Charlie Bondhus, Hopwood fellow
Rachel Richardson, and numerous emerging and established writers
including Jaswinder Bolina, Elyse Fenton, and Bernard Farai Matambo.
Additionally, the issue includes three "Translation Folios" introducing
and contextualizing for an American audience work by renowned Turkish
poet Haydar Ergülen, Georg Büchner Prize winner Karl Krolow, and Prix
Max-Jacob winner Emmanuel Moses in translations by (respectively) Derick
Mattern, Stuart Friebert, and National Book Award and Lenore Marshall
Prize winner Marilyn Hacker.
The cover of Issue 22 features work by Los Angeles-based artist
Christina Stormberg.
