Readings and Events

Copper Nickel is teaming up with Win Wear to present an evening of writing from Copper Nickel 13 translated into music, art, and food on Thursday, March 18th, beginning at 7pm at Orange Cat Studios, 2625 Larimer Street in Denver.

A $10 cover gets you in, gets you fed, and puts a copy of Copper Nickel 13 in your hands. Another $1 will get you a "bottomless cup of beer" to be filled with goodness from our friends at Great Divide Brewing.

Translating musicians include Roger Green, Conrad Kehn, David Mead and more. In addition to the music, Mark Shusterman, current pastry chef at Beatrice and Woodsley, will be preparing inspired food for the event paired with the GREAT DIVIDE beer.

The fun doesn't stop there; a reception follows with NOVO Coffee, home made pastries, and record spinning going well into the night.

Please join us for an evening of transmogrification and hot artist-on-artist action.

During the AWP Conference, Copper Nickel will present an audible edition of the journal featuring past contributors---including Hadara Bar-Nadav, Alyson Hagy, James Hoch, Deborah Poe, and Aurelie Sheehan---on Saturday, April 10th, beginning at 7:30pm. The event is free and open to all comers.

Check back here for a table of contents, coming soon.

As part of the AWP Conference, Copper Nickel will present eight debut poets on Thursday night, April 8th, from 6-8pm in the Tivoli Turnhalle (900 Auraria Parkway). After readings from Dan Albergotti, Jericho Brown, Stacey Lynn Brown, Michael Dumanis, Farrah Field, J. Michael Martinez, Alison Stine and Allison Benis White, join us for a reception where books will be on sale. This event is free and open to all comers.

It's here.

We're celebrating the publication of our 13th issue on Wednesday, January 27th, in three acts.

Act I: poet Adrian Matejka, author of Mixology, a 2008 National Poetry Series Selection, and contributor to Copper Nickel 13, will read from his work at 4pm in the Recital Hall of the King Center for the Performing Arts on the Auraria Higher Education Campus.

Act II: a reception at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm, starting at 6pm. Light fare & a cash bar.

Act III: a contributor reading at the Denver Press Club, beginning at 7pm, presenting Scott Beck, Leia Darwish Clark, Marc Laughton, J. Michael Martinez, Jef Otte, Ashlie Schweitzer, and others.

All events are free and open to the public, and issues of Copper Nickel 13 will be on sale for the first time. All students get a discount price: $5 a copy.

Please join us for the release of this remarkable issue, which includes the work of UC-Denver alum Farrah Field, recent Whiting Award winner Jericho Brown, Whiting Award winner Laleh Khadivi, and the rising-star story writer and novelist Holly Goddard Jones.

Join COPPER NICKEL for a Double Feature Halloween Party/Fundraiser on Tuesday October 27 from 6-10pm at The Living Room, a neighborhood wine bar, 1055 Broadway, Denver.

Everyone who comes will get a copy of COPPER NICKEL 12, and if you already have one, we'll mail it to a person of your choosing (bring your address book).

Cover is $5 with ANY student ID or $10 without.

A Happy Hour stretches from 6-7pm with a spread of appetizers, followed by a B-Movie Voiceover contest (think Mystery Science Theater 3000) and a costume contest with prizes from Mod Livin'!

Prizes for costumes will be given in the following categories:

*Best DOUBLE FEATURE (a costume combining two or more figures or a couples costume)

*Best LITERARY CHARACTER

*Best SUPERHERO / POP CULTURE ICON

*Best TRADITIONAL HALLOWEEN COSTUME

*CHEAPEST costume.

Costumed readers can win in more than one category. Prizes will be comprised of smart modern gifts from Denver's own Mod Livin' and subscriptions to COPPER NICKEL.

So, join us for a night of smart fun in one of Denver's newest watering holes.

Coming soon, novelist Laleh Khadivi (and future Copper Nickel contributor) will be reading from her novel The Age of Orphans on our campus on Tuesday, November 3rd, at 7pm in the Tivoli Turnhalle. She will also be screening her documentary 900 Women on Wednesday November 4th in the STARZ! Film Center.

This event is presented by UC-Denver Live! in cooperation with the Colorado Center for Public Humanities and Copper Nickel.

More details forthcoming.

Join COPPER NICKEL for a Double Feature Halloween Party/Fundraiser on Tuesday October 27 from 6-10pm at The Living Room, a neighborhood wine bar, 1055 Broadway, Denver.

Everyone who comes will get a copy of COPPER NICKEL 12, and if you already have one, we'll mail it to a person of your choosing (bring your address book).

Cover is $5 with ANY student ID or $10 without.

A Happy Hour stretches from 6-7pm with a spread of appetizers, followed by a B-Movie Voiceover contest (think Mystery Science Theater 3000) and a costume contest with prizes from Mod Livin'!

Prizes for costumes will be given in the following categories:

*Best DOUBLE FEATURE (a costume combining two or more figures or a couples costume)

*Best LITERARY CHARACTER

*Best SUPERHERO / POP CULTURE ICON

*Best TRADITIONAL HALLOWEEN COSTUME

*CHEAPEST costume.

Costumed readers can win in more than one category. Prizes will be comprised of smart modern gifts from Denver's own Mod Livin' and subscriptions to COPPER NICKEL.

So, join us for a night of smart fun in one of Denver's newest watering holes.

Our first internet sale is now open: get Copper Nickel issues 10 & 12 for only $12 (postpaid) through 9am MDT Tuesday 10/13. Just navigate over to our storefront and select the sale item through Paypal and we'll get that out to you directly.

After that, look for our DOUBLE FEATURE Halloween Party / Fundraiser on Tuesday October 27 from 6-10pm at The Living Room (1055 Broadway in Denver), a comfortable neighborhood wine bar.

If you have a student ID $5 will get you in the door and put a copy of Copper Nickel 12 in your hands; if you don't have a student ID, $10 is the cover. If you already have a copy of Copper Nickel 12, bring a friend's address and we'll send your door copy to your friend. An early Happy Hour (6-7pm) will include a spread of appetizers and will be followed by a B-Movie Voiceover Contest and a Costume Contest with some sweet prizes.

Please join us for an evening of fun and non-profit support!

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.

Please join us this Friday, May 1st, from 5-10pm (or any time within that frame) for a casual celebration of five years of literary publishing. Festivities will be held at Matter Studio, 2134 Market Street in Denver. For more information, follow this link.