September 2009 Archives

Kate Greenstreet, the author of Case Sensitive and The Last 4 Things will read as a guest of Copper Nickel on Tuesday, October 6th, on the Auraria Higher Education Campus, in North Classroom room 1535 at 7pm. During this reading, Kate will also show some of the films that accompany her new book, The Last 4 Things.

Earlier in the day, Greenstreet will speak on the poetics of her film poems at the University of Colorado Denver Writing Center at North Classroom 4014 at 3pm. Space in this workshop is limited to 25 participants and to students at UCD. To register, please visit the Writing Center's website.

Following the workshop but preceding the reading, Copper Nickel and the University of Colorado Denver's Department of English, supported by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will host a reception for UCD students in the North Classroom atrium, where students can get books signed and ask questions over food and drink.

Who is Kate Greenstreet & why do you want to come to this event? Some of the following links may help settle that question for you:
ºAn interview with Kate Greenstreet about The Last 4 Things at Bookslut
ºAn interview at Eclectica
ºInterview at Here Comes Everybody
ºFirst-book (self-)interview.

See an excerpt from "The Giant," from The Last 4 Things on Vimeo:

the giant from Kate Greenstreet on Vimeo.

Please check back here for more information.

Maybe this means we're aging, but at a very green six years old, we're launching a patronage program, similar to the programs you might see raising support for other literary journals.

This is pretty basic, I'd say:

*If you want to donate $100, we'll call you a "Friend" with a capital-F, thank you with a letter that will reveal that this donation is entirely tax-deductible, thank you on our website (see the sidebar to the right?) and in the next issue of Copper Nickel, send you a secret gift, and feel a little more stable.

*If you want to donate $250, we'll call you a "Sponsor," capital-S, and all the rest.

*And for the extremely generous, donating $500 or more, you will be known as a "Patron," capital-P, and all the rest.

If you're interested, just navigate over to our Patronage page and check out the details of various contribution methods.

What are we doing with this money? you ask.

Primarily, we will be using it to stabilize our budget, allowing us to shift some energy from very basic fundraising to additional programming, including an expansion of a writers-in-the-schools program begun a few years ago at the University of Colorado Denver (our parent school) and a broader internet platform for Copper Nickel which would include podcasts and the like. The wish list goes on...

Times are tight for everyone, but if you're looking for a deduction later on, think about it...

Janaka Stucky, the genius of Black Ocean Press, announced over the summer that he would engage in a Push-Ups For Poetry endeavor, whereby he would gather pledges from interested readers/observers, a certain amount for each push-up he could complete in a single go and donate the proceeds to Poets House, one the most remarkable institutions in the country.

Janaka's apparently in good shape, but he's still gathering pledges.

This is one of those moments of activism—in which the need for our championship of literature becomes visible—and a very interesting approach to fundraising, which is more and more important. In a week that saw the announcement that TriQuarterly would effectively cease to exist as it has for the last 45 years, this is especially interesting—both Janaka's enthusiasm for Poets House and its particular form. (If I were writing an episode of Sex In the City I'd have Carrie Bradshaw ask now: "Are we always pushing poetry up?")

It's got me imagining an all-poetry workout that would consist of the following, at the very least:

• Eight sets of 25-pushups, interspersed with
• Eight sets of 20 25-pound (1 box of the newly-delivered Copper Nickel 12 (20 copies)) squats, followed by
• 500-yard schlep of a 25-pound weight.
• 500-yard "dactyllic hexameter" freestyle swim, using a breathing stroke followed by two non-breathing strokes.

I don't know where this is going, but you'll have some ideas, I'm sure.

Two nines, two twos, two poets: what better way to release our twelfth beautiful issue?

Join us for this FREE reading, Tuesday, September 22nd, at 7pm, in the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Higher Education Campus here in downtown Denver [link for map], with readings by Copper Nickel contributors John Gallaher and G. C. Waldrep, co-sponsored with the University of Colorado Denver Writing Center.

John Gallaher is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Little Book of Guesses, from Four Way Books, 2007, and Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, 2009, as well as the free online chapbook, Guidebook, from Blue Hour Press. Other than that, he's currently co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press.

G.C. Waldrep's full-length collections are Goldbeater's Skin (2003), Disclamor (2007), and Archicembalo (2009), which won the 2008 Dorset Prize (judged by C.D. Wright). He lives in Lewisburg, Pa., and teaches at Bucknell University.

& coming soon: Kate Greenstreet on Tuesday, October 6th.