November 2009 Archives

The folks over at Electric Literature are serializing a story written by Rick Moody expressly for Twittering. As one of their editors explains:

To the best of our knowledge, Rick's story is the first work of fiction written expressly for Twitter by a major literary author.

The microserialization™ of Rick's story will take place on every co-publisher's Twitter feed from Monday, November 30th through Wednesday December 2nd. Tweets will appear every ten minutes from 10am until 6:30pm.

Moody's story is broken into 153 bursts of 140 characters or less, each clearly labored over with a precision and lyricism that reveals the surprising literary potential of the tweet. "It really was like writing Haiku," Rick told us. We believe he has taken something that could be seen as gimmicky - "Twitter-fiction" - and created something transcendent.

Follow Copper Nickel on Twitter, where we will be re-tweeting the story as part of a large chain for the next few days...

& James Hoch's "Wedding Pinata" featured today on Poetry Daily!

Why is Copper Nickel one of the best journals you probably haven't been reading?

Here are some good reasons:

• Sandy Longhorn's "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" on Verse Daily (from CN12)
• Jordan Davis's "Evasion of Privacy" (CN12) on Verse Daily
• John Estes' "Stray Paragraphs: Year of the Rat" (CN12) on Verse Daily
• John Gallaher, contributor to CN12, presenting his poem "Watermelon in the Afternoon" as part of the Washington Post's Poet's Choice Series.
• Joshua Poteat's Illustrating the Machine That Makes The World, including work first published in Copper Nickel 7
• Matthea Harvey's Modern Life including work first published in Copper Nickel 7

See what you've (probably) been missing.

Between now and December 31st, you can pick up two copies for only $12! It's all here: http://www.copper-nickel.org/buy.html.

John Estes' "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" and James Hoch's "Wedding Pinata" also featured on Verse Daily!

This is a sign... of what, we have no idea, though we're loving the attention.

We're hosting poet Victoria Chang, author of Salvinia Molesta and Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation on Tuesday, November 10th, at 7pm in the Auraria Campus's North Classroom, room 1130.

This event is free and open to the public. Please join us.

The fine folks at Verse Daily have favored us again, featuring Jordan Davis's "Evasion of Privacy" today.

For those of you who have been thirsty for some previews, the feature of Davis and Sandy Longhorn give you some idea of what we're publishing of late.

If you've had your taste whetted, now's a great time to pick up a copy during our GREAT INTERNET SALE: issues for only $6 when purchased in pairs!

Sandy Longhorn's poem "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds," from Copper Nickel 12 is today's poem of the day on Verse Daily.

Congratulations to Sandy, and many thanks to Verse Daily.

There are, of course, more fantastic Longhorn poems in Copper Nickel 12, and now is the perfect time to get a copy: in our first internet sale, you can get it for only $6!

Thanks to all who came out for our pre-blizzard Halloween party and Fundraiser, where the costumes were fantastic and the energy delicious (pictures forthcoming).

With the weather and all, we were a little fewer than we'd anticipated and, as a result, we didn't make our fundraising goals.

We know you wanted to be there, so we're passing on something of the festival atmosphere via an Internet Sale where you can get a number of two-packs for only $12. This is a great way to catch up on recent issues you may have missed or to go ahead and lock in a low price for the fabulous issue 13, which will arrive in late January.

Don't want to pay by Paypal? Download the linked order form and mail it back to us. (Yes, we know this means it's not so much an "internet" sale, but we can live with that if you can.)

You might think since we put out a slick journal and have a home in a university that we're floating pretty high, but we depend on readers like you to help establish value both for the literature we circulate and the format itself. Help keep this journal going... Pick up some goods for yourself, or for a friend.