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The national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver (@CUDenver), publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and translation folios.

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Transtromer, with some thoughts about the void of history that swallows everything, including the powerful… (trans. by May Swenson)

Transtromer, with some thoughts about the void of history that swallows everything, including the powerful…

(trans. by May Swenson)
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Thrilled to be judging the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for Trio House Press, a book prize open to all poets. Prize includes $1K and publication. Submissions open November 1. Guidelines below! SUBMIT! triohousepress.submittable.com/submit #poetry

Thrilled to be judging the 2025 Louise Bogan Award for <a href="/triohousepress/">Trio House Press</a>, a book prize open to all poets. Prize includes $1K and publication.  Submissions open November 1. Guidelines below! SUBMIT! triohousepress.submittable.com/submit #poetry
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Check out torrin a. greathouse's brilliant essay "The Crooked Child," which won Copper Nickel's Editors' Prize in Prose for issue 39! copper-nickel.org/the-crooked-ch…

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Michelle Comstock's new book, COMPOSING RESONANCE: CULTURE AND COLLABORATION IN SONIC PRACTICES, has been published. Congrats Michelle! parlorpress.com/products/compo…

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I’ve help off on posting bc *gestures at world* BUT I’m so excited to share that my essay on autism, transness, OCD, and the changeling myth was awarded the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize in Prose & is now available to read online! copper-nickel.org/the-crooked-ch…

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Today is the birthday of one of my most cherished friends, poet Rachel Zucker. Here is her devastating and beautiful poem “[taking away taking away everything]” poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/i…

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“One board member advised me in passing / that a teenage daughter shouldn’t work— / she’d learn from her coworkers criminal things. / Instead, she should play soccer.” —Wayne Miller, “Meeting the Board”

“One board member advised me in passing / that a teenage daughter shouldn’t work— / she’d learn from her coworkers criminal things. / Instead, she should play soccer.” —Wayne Miller, “Meeting the Board”
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Despite a purported alliance with Albania’s King Zog, who had been in power since 1922, Mussolini invaded Albania on April 7, 1939. Here, Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo (1949–2020) reimagines the prelude to invasion. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/fiction/t…

Despite a purported alliance with Albania’s King Zog, who had been in power since 1922, Mussolini invaded Albania on April 7, 1939. Here, Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo (1949–2020) reimagines the prelude to invasion.

worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/fiction/t…
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From the moment I started subbing short fiction, Copper Nickel has been at the very top of my Wildly Unattainable Dream Journal list. This came in the mail today. I treasure it so much. And that cool, cleverly blended story on the back cover with a line from each piece🥹

From the moment I started subbing short fiction, <a href="/coppernickel/">Copper Nickel</a> has been at the very top of my Wildly Unattainable Dream Journal list.

This came in the mail today.

I treasure it so much. And that cool, cleverly blended story on the back cover with a line from each piece🥹
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BO HEE MOON has won the Jake Adam York Prize, chosen by Matthew Olzmann! Please click to link to see the list of extraordinary finalists and semifinalists. milkweed.org/blog/bo-hee-mo…

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Wayne Miller was featured on High Plains Public Radio and they read his poem "On Childhood" from his book THE END OF CHILDHOOD, which was published on March 26. Congratulations Wayne! hppr.org/podcast/hppr-p… milkweed.org/book/the-end-o…

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We're thrilled to share, a bit belatedly, that Melissa Bowers has won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize for Prose for her brilliant flash fiction "From the Ashes"! copper-nickel.org/from-the-ashes/

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Check out LUISA MURADYAN's beautiful poem "When I Say I Am Not the Speaker of My Poems," which won CN's Editors' Prize for Poetry! copper-nickel.org/when-i-say-i-a…

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Incredible poet PATRICIA SMITH will judge the 2025-6 Jake Adam York Prize! We open for submissions on July 1. Please help spread the word! copper-nickel.org/bookprize/