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The national literary journal produced at the University of Colorado Denver. Other contributors have had their first published work appear in our pages.

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. Founded in 2002 by the poet Jake Adam York, it is currently edited by Wayne Miller, Joanna Luloff, Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, and Teague Bohlen. Authors appearing in our pages have won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the American, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and

Washington State Book Awards, the Georg Büchner Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the TS Eliot and Forward Poetry Prizes, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Whiting Writers Award, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffe, Bush, and Jerome Foundations, the Bunting Institute, Cave Canem, and the American Academy in Rome.

15/01/2024

Our spring issue is at the printer!

30/12/2023

Becky Hagenston's "Theories of an Ancient Drawing Carved into a Hillside" has won the Editors' Prize in Prose for CN issue 37. Here's the story! https://copper-nickel.org/theories-of-an-ancient-drawing-carved-into-a-hillside/

29/12/2023

Great advanced review of Yalie Saweda Kamara's Jake Adam York Prize–winning BESAYDOO! "Eloquent, proud, and discerning, the poems of Besaydoo preserve the wary splendor of lived experience."

Besaydoo: Yalie Saweda Kamara’s lucent poetry collection "Besaydoo" encircles matters of race, heritage, boundaries, and exchanging “worry for hope.” California-born poet Kamara challenges the description of Oakland as a “killing field.”...

06/12/2023

Owen McLeod has won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize for Poetry for issue 37. Here's his wonderful poem "Lacrimosa":

At the college gymI run into Waltera colleague from Englishwho tells mehe’s thinking about cryingnot actually cryinglike right there betweenthe dumbbellsand the rowing machinethough for the recordthere’d be no shamein someone crying openlyin the middle of a setof biceps curlswhat Walter means is...

29/11/2023

"You’re so far away / that the prison of this world is irrelevant."

Check out this beautiful poem by Russian poet Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel.

You’re so far awaythat the tarred keelscan’t reach youand my shouldersand oarsare worn outfrom hard work.The fish that has followed the rudderin its random wanderingswill simply return home. Only a star remains, in a thornyfar-off constellation.But my compass and the helmsmanwho couldn’t endur...

21/11/2023

Big congratulations to Meg Day, Jacqueline Kolosov, Sinéad Morrissey, Weijia Pan, S. Shankar, and Kathryn Smith—our Pushcart Prize nominees for this year!

13/11/2023

It was so great to have poets Stephen S*xton and Randall Mann at CU Denver to read from their extraordinary work!

03/11/2023

This extraordinary poem by Ukrainian poet Alex Averbuch . . .

I forgave myself formy Ukrainian great-grandfather who joined a pogrom against my Jewish great-grandfatherI forgave my Polish great-grandmother who tore at the braids of my Jewish great-grandmotherI forgave myself for my moskal great-grandfather who took the last bit of food from my Ukrainian great-...

24/10/2023

Here's an amazing poem about s*x ed class—by Yalie Saweda Kamara—from the new October issue of Copper Nickel.

After watching a grainy video of a million s***m swimming upstream in pursuit of a singular egg, followed by a short film

16/10/2023

Hey folks! The deadline for the JAY Prize was yesterday—but we always keep submissions open for three more days to accommodate anyone who had technical or personal issues. So if you wanted to submit and didn't, you have until Oct 18.

The Jake Adam York Prize deadline is October 15—a little more than two weeks away! The winning book will be published by Milkweed Editions. Please help us spread the word!

28/09/2023

The Jake Adam York Prize deadline is October 15—a little more than two weeks away! The winning book will be published by Milkweed Editions. Please help us spread the word!

07/09/2023

At the printer!

10/08/2023

Check out Greg Oaks' wonderful "Topography" from CN 36—up on Poetry Daily today!

from Copper Nickel

01/07/2023

We're open for submissions! Send us your best first or second manuscripts! The winning book will be published by Milkweed Editions.

26/06/2023

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that the next judge of the Jake Adam York Prize for a 1st or 2nd poetry collection is CYNTHIA CRUZ, whose book HOTEL OBLIVION won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award. We open for submissions on July 1. The winning book will be published by Milkweed Editions.

08/06/2023

Check out Kathryn Smith's poetry on our website!
https://copper-nickel.org/are-you-ok-and-other-wrong-questions/

You can find this poem, another poem by Smith, and others in our latest issue.
https://copper-nickel.org/journal/spring-2023/

The 2019 winner of the Jake Adam York Prize for the poetry collection Self-Portrait with Cephalopod (Milkweed, 2021), KATHRYN SMITH has published poems in Brink, Diagram, Fugue, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. In 2018, she won the Open Country Press Chapbook Contest for Chosen Companions of the Goblin.

22/04/2023

We're a little late to the party, but we're absolutely thrilled that Stephanie Niu's poem "Learning Money in Reverse," from CN 36, was featured on the Slowdown on Thursday! Congratulations, Stephanie!

Today’s poem is Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu.

21/04/2023

Congratulations to Rita Mookerjee, our winner of the Editors' Prize in Poetry for Issue 36!

Check out the full-length piece on our website! https://copper-nickel.org/on-having-a-loud-ass-mouth/

Rita Mookerjee is the author of False Offering (Jackleg, 2023). She was a Fulbright Fellow from 2019–20 and currently teaches interdisciplinary studies at Worcester University. Her poems can be found in Baltimore Review, Lantern Review, The Offing, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.

Mookerjee's Required Reading List:
Diamond Forde's, Mother Body
Joshua Nguyen's, Come Clean
Sun Yung Shin's, The Wet Hex

20/04/2023

Congratulations to Julia Ridley Smith, our winner of the Editors' Prize in Prose for Issue 36!

Check out the full-length piece on our website! https://copper-nickel.org/the-woman-who-did-things-wrong/

Julia Ridley Smith is the author of a memoir, The Sum of Trifles (U of Georgia, 2021), and a forthcoming short story collection, S*x Romp Gone Wrong (Blair, 2023). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, New England Review, and elsewhere.

Smith's Required Reading List:
Jen Fawkes's, Tales the Devil Told Me
Holly Goddard Jones's, Antipodes
Joanna Pearson's, Now You Know It All

07/04/2023

Poetry Editor Nicky Beer has won a Guggenheim!

30/03/2023

Jake Adam York Prize winner Christopher Brean Murray on Poetry Daily!

from "Black Observatory" published by Milkweed Editions

11/03/2023

Thanks for visiting us at the AWP book fair, Rebecca Lehmann!

01/03/2023

Check out this wonderful poem by Paul Guest from CN 34!

Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

22/02/2023

Huge congratulations to YALIE SAWEDA KAMARA, whose book BESAYDOO has been chosen by judge AMAUD JAMAUL JOHNSON as winner of the 2022–3 Jake Adam York Book Prize! BESAYDOO will be published by Milkweed Editions in early 2024.

The Jake Adam York Prize for a first or second poetry collection is a collaboration between Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions.

27/01/2023

As of today, this is at the printer! Official pub date is March 15 (though we should have the issue at AWP).

02/01/2023

Huge congratulations to our wonderful, generous, and inspiring contributing editor Sugi Ganeshananthan! Her novel Brotherless Night is published today and just received a glowing review in the New York Times. Help us support her and her incredible work by ordering her book.

V.V. Ganeshananthan’s novel “Brotherless Night” reveals the moral nuances of violence, ever belied by black-and-white terminology.

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Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. Founded in 2002 by the poet Jake Adam York, it is currently edited by Wayne Miller, Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Teague Bohlen, and Joanna Luloff. Authors appearing in our pages have won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the American, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards, the Georg Büchner Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the TS Eliot and Forward Poetry Prizes, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Whiting Writers Award, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffe, Bush, and Jerome Foundations, the Bunting Institute, Cave Canem, and the American Academy in Rome. Other contributors have had their first published work appear in our pages.