Copper Nickel announces the release of its eighth semi-annual issue and the formation of Counterfeit Press, a full-fledged publisher of literary and visual works. The publication and press-launch will be celebrated in a party at Matter Studio (2132 Market Street in Denver) on Friday, September 28th, from 7-10pm.

The party will include refreshment, readings, and other recreation.

Copper Nickel 8 will feature a portfolio of photographs from post-Katrina New Orleans by Theo Mullen and Clinton T. Sander, photography students at the University of Colorado at Denver. Accompanying these photographs will be essays and poems by New Orleans writers Christopher Chambers, Peter Cooley, Kay Murphy and others, alongside Copper Nickel's signature mixture of work by emerging and established writers. The issue will be on sale for $10 at this event, and 10% of all sales and donations will go to the New Orleans Public Library Rebuilding Fund.

Also on September 28th, Copper Nickel will launch Counterfeit Press with the publication of a book entitled &: Double Exposures. This book presents photographic and literary double exposures, with every page produced by teams of artists. The photographic contributions, coordinated by Denver artist Kedran Kraich, were produced when exposed film was mailed to photographers as far away as London for re-exposure to produce surprising overlays. The literary contributions, including work by Denver's own Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson, were authored by teams of poets, each writing over and into the other's work.

As the host of this publication and press-launch party, Matter Studio owner, Rick Griffith, will create a special cover for a limited edition of &. Again, 10% of all sales and donations given at this event will go the New Orleans Public Library Rebuilding Fund.

Copper Nickel was founded in 2003 as a semi-annual journal of art and literature by the students and faculty of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. The name "Copper Nickel" was chosen to signal its origin at the University of Colorado—the chemical symbol for copper, Cu, alluding the university's CU—and to suggest a product of uncommon worth, as one student observed that a nickel-sized coin made entirely of copper would be worth more than five cents in raw materials.

Now, a new generation of students and faculty at UCDHSC forms Counterfeit Press to continue and enlarge the mission of Copper Nickel. Counterfeit Press seeks to establish values for work that is typically undervalued in traditional monetary economies. It will continue to publish Copper Nickel while publishing a small number of innovative titles each year.

For more information, contact us at 303-556-8828.