Danielle Dutton teaches fiction writing at Naropa University in Boulder. She is the author of Attempts at a Life, which was released last moth from Tarpaulin Sky Press, and a novel, SPRAWL, forthcoming from Clear Cut Press. Her writing has appeared (or will soon) in journals such as Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, 3rd bed, Octopus, and NOON, and she is currently the Associate Editor of the Denver Quarterly.

Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her book of poems is Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005) and she is the editor of Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) a collection of writing from 112 bay area writers. She's a board member at Small Press Traffic, San Francisco's 33-year old community literary arts center. Find her online here: www.stephanieyoung.org/blog.

Daniel Alarcón’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, Eyeshot and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. He is Associate Editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine based in his native Lima, Peru. A former Fulbright Scholar to Peru and the recipient of a Whiting Award for 2004, he lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College. His story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His first novel Lost City Radio will be published in February 2007.

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Jake Adam York is a professor of English at the University of Colorado at Denver where he edits Copper Nickel with his students. He will read selections from A Murmuration of Starlings which was recently accepted for publication at Southern Illinois University Press (forthcoming 2008) and from Murder Ballads (2005). York brings with him Mary McHugh, an editor of Copper Nickel and Roxanne Banks, an English teacher at Littleton High School and a contributor to Copper Nickel.

For information about the Dikeou poetry events, please contact Rachel Cole at rachel@dikeoucollection.org

The Dikeou Collection is open every Friday from 11am to 5pm, or by appointment. For more information please contact info@dikeoucollection.org or 303-623-3001.

Look, too, for a major expansion of the website, to include audio podcasts, among other goodies, and some new additions to our line of print offerings.

Meantime, have a good and productive Summer.

That night, we'll also be publishing the first in a new series of books, this one a collection of multiple exposure photographs and multiple exposure writing. Don't know what that could mean? You're going to be pleased, we guarantee...

The first meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 17th, from 5:30-6:30pm, in Room 442 of the Tivoli Turnhalle.

The second meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 20th, from 12:30-1:30 in Tivoli Room 329.

Those who are interested can come at ANY TIME during these hour meetings to find out what we're up to and how you can get involved.

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.

Hadara Bar-Nadav
Adam Clay
John Gallaher
Kate Greenstreet
Janet Holmes
Josh Kryah
Alex Lemon
Wayne Miller
Kevin Prufer
Zachary Schomburg
Mathias Svalina
Eliot Khalil Wilson
& MORE!

Thursday, OCTOBER 18th, 5-9pm: Twelve poets interviewing one another, followed by readings by Joshua Kryah, Wayne Miller, Kate Greenstreet, Janet Holmes, John Gallaher, and Kevin Prufer. In the UCD Studio Theater in the King Center for the Performing Arts on the Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver. Parking for free in the lot behind the Tivoli, accessed by 9th Street off of Auraria Parkway.

Friday 12-5pm. Readings by Alex Lemon and Adam Clay, Hadara Bar-Nadav and Eliot Khalil Wilson, Zachary Schomburg and Mathias Svalina, including a group discussion about publishing and editing. In the UCD Studio Theater in the King Center for the Performing Arts on the Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver. Parking for free in the lot behind the Tivoli, accessed by 9th Street off of Auraria Parkway.

Friday 7-10pm. Exhibition opening for "Manual Labors," where contemporary poets respond to pre-Columbian artifacts, featuring manuscripts by Kate Greenstreet, Noah Eli Gordon, Bin Ramke, Chris Ransick, Karen Volkman and 30 other poets. Exhibition opens at 7pm at The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (404 S. Upham Street in Lakewood, just southeast of the intersection of Alameda and Wadsworth). Reception continues through 10pm. Free parking in the adjacent lot. Exhibit on display through December 30th.

All events are free and open to the public. Spread the word.

Ander Monson is the author of a book of poems, Vacationland (Tupelo Press), a novel in stories, Other Electricities (Sarabande Books), and a book of essays, Neck Deep (Graywolf). He is also the editor of New Michigan Press and DIAGRAM.