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 25 of Copper Nickel is aesthetically diverse, featuring
translation "folios" by 12th century Chinese poet Li Qingzhao, Chilean
Nobel Prize-winner Gabriela Mistral, and Iranian short story writer
Payam Yazdanjoo; poetry by Dilruba Ahmed, Michael Bazzett, Talia Bloch,
Graham Foust, John Gallaher, Tony Hoagland, Cynthia Hogue, Ashley
Keyser, Sara Eliza Johnson, Peter LaBerge, Shara Lessley, Adrian C.
Louis, Kevin Prufer, Elizabeth Scanlon, Analicia Sotelo, Juned Subhan,
Ellen Doré Watson, Lesley Wheeler, &c.; fiction by Meagan Ciesla, Viet
Dinh, Joel Morris, Joanna Pearson, and Pete Stevens; and nonfiction by
Robert Archambeau, Alex McElroy, and Hasanthika Sirisena.
The cover of this issue features work by Denver-based painter and
collagist Daisy Patton.