December 2009 Archives

We filed all our papers on time, but we have been slow getting the word out. Nevertheless, we are pleased to announce our 2009 Pushcart Nominees are:

*Aimee Baker, "The Reading of the Fates of Love and Death" (CN11)
*James Hoch, "Wedding Pinata" (CN12)
*Patrick Lawler, "Dearest Akeem Benedicta" (CN12)
*Andrew Farkas, "The Ballad of Ailin' Alan Smithee" (CN12)
*Matthew Kirkpatrick, "Throw Him In The Water" (CN11)
*Aurelie Sheehan, "Gentle Future" (CN11)

It is always difficult to make these choices, and we were gratefully reminded, as we followed our discussion, just how ardently we hold each piece we've published. For that, thanks to all of our contributing authors, past and future.

Coming January 27: Copper Nickel 13, featuring:

Poetry by: Dan Albergotti, Jeff Baker, Scott Beck, T. J. Beitelman, Mary Biddinger, Jericho Brown, Stacey Lynn Brown, Jessica Cuello, Leia Darwish Clark, Chad Davidson, Kelly Davio, Anna Carson DeWitt, Tyler Dorholt, Michael Dumanis, Kerry James Evans, Noah Falck, Farrah Field, Noah Eli Gordon, Michael J. Henry, Bob Hicok, John James, Jessica Jewell, Marc W. Laughton, Patricia Lockwood, J. Michael Martinez, Adrian Matejka, Karyna McGlynn, James Thomas Miller, Joseph Radke, Adam Theron-Lee Rensch, Brian Ripley, Joshua Robbins, Bret Shepard, R. T. Smith, Alison Stine, Nicole Walker, A. E. Watkins, Karen Weyant, Allison Benis White, David Daniel Williams, Brennen Wysong

Prose by: Dinah Cox, Charley Henley, Holly Goddard Jones, Laleh Khadivi, Baker Lawley, Jef Otte, Antonio Salinas

& visual art by: Krista Franklin

Join us Wednesday, January 27th for release festivities. Reading by Adrian Matejka at 4pm in the King Center Recital Hall on the Auraria Higher Education Campus, followed by a reception at the Denver Press Club (1330 Glenarm Place, downtown Denver) from 6-9pm, including additional readings by CN13 contributors from 7-8pm.

All events are free and open to the public, and everything will be on sale...

You can pre-order the issue now and we'll ship it to you when it arrives...

Remember how much fun we had last December?

At the close of October 2008, we had exactly ZERO subscribers. Every active subscriber had lapsed, and the relatively small staff couldn't keep up. But we kicked our subscription drive into gear, and so many of you came back to us. We sold exactly 31 subscriptions in December 2008.

Since that time, we have been focused on building a subscriber base, and now we have over 200 active subscriptions.

We'd like to double that by this time next year---actually, we'd like to triple that. We need to quintuple that to have a sustainable print operation in the years to come---but these things take time.

Join us this month in a repeat of our 31-subscriptions-in-31-days drive. If you're an elapsing subscriber, there has never been a better time to recommit, and if you've been thinking of subscribing now is the time: we are offering our lowest dirt-scratch prices ever: you can subscribe for only $12 a year.

If you're clever this could be a tax deduction for you and a step forward for us, a win-win holiday arrangement.

So, put more than 400 pages of high-quality hyper-contemporary literature in someone's stocking or bookshelf this season and help us start the year off right. A whole menu of options awaits you here: http://www.copper-nickel.org/buy.html