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Midway through the journey of his life, Dan Beachy-Quick found himself without a path, unsure how to live well. Of Silence and Song follows him through the forest of his experience, on a classical sea

How can one reconcile the irreconcilable? In this masterful companion to Day Unto Day, Martha Collins finds common ground between contradictions—beauty and horror, joy and mortality, the personal and

“My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying.”When her mother is diagnosed with a r

Beth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from her native New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene. Having learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen, shopping at farm stands and making

Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions—poetry and fly-fishing; one child, with another on the way; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter a miraculous email: Can’t g

In The Mirrormaker, songwriter and poet Brian Laidlaw melds myths ancient and contemporary among the raspberries, wolves, and taconite mines of Minnesota’s Iron Range.A companion volume to Laidlaw’s 2

Meditative and richly written, this collection of poems by Kathy Fagan takes the sycamore as its inspiration?and delivers precise, luminous insights on lost love, nature, and the process of recovery.?

Fiercely funny and entirely original, this debut collection of stories takes readers from the United States to Israel?and back?to examine the mystifying reaches of our own minds and hearts.The charact

In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun—only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin he

Who? A speaker at once questioner and questioned. An artist who embraces and resists what his work demands of him. “A naked / man in a crowd.” What? Poems at once surreal and vulnerable, refusing to h

Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire--and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks "what name / do you crown yourself," Huang answers with many. Textured with mountains--a folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, self--and peppered with shapeshifting creatures, spirits, and gods, the landscape of Jennifer Huang's poems is at once mystical and fleshy, a "myth a mess of myself." Sensuously, Huang depicts each of these not as things to claim but as topographies to behold and hold. Here, too, is another kind of mythology. Set to the music of "beating hearts / through objects passed down," the poems travel through generations--among Taiwan, China, and America--cataloging familial wounds and beloved stories. A grandfather's smile shining through rain, baby bok choy in a child's bowl, a slap felt decades later--the result is a map of a pr

In Some Church, Wyoming Poet Laureate David Romvedt defines the intersection of a person’s political, social, and spiritual life. Offering vignettes both intimate and expansive, these poems are inform

From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words. Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm’s length by a bitter father, François

A searing, urgent collection of poems that brings the lyric and documentary together in unparalleled ways?unmasking and examining the specter of manmade disaster.On September 20, 2010, an explosion on

“How can writing, writing about a place, hope to recuperate its centuries of lost speech?” From this question comes a vivid and unforgettable exploration of Ireland’s geography, ecology, and history i

Playfully literate and strikingly original, an unforgettable debut novel about art, imitation, and obsession.Excitement is rare in the small town of Marumaru, New Zealand. So when a young Maori man ar

Since its establishment as a federally protected wilderness in 1964, the Boundary Waters has become one of our nation’s most valuable—and most frequently visited—natural treasures. When Amy and Dave F

A debut collection of poems that finds fertile ground in the unknown degree of intimacy, the mysterious and intense relationship, between siblings Georg and Grete Trakl.Georg Trakl is one of the most

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of ColoradoDenver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of Post- and TheCity, Our City, coeditor of

Brain surgery. Assault weapons in the bed of a pickup truck. Rilke, Rodin, and the craters of the moon. Recovery and disintegration. Monkeys stealing an egg outside a temple in Kathmandu. Brushing tee

From celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love’s Last Number is a series of musings on time’s arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past, present, and future ? before and af

An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the love

When Celia Canby Kate’s niece, Bess’s mother, and Harriet’s cousin is killed in a car accident, it’s up to Kate and Harriet to raise Bess. Ten years later, on the day of the accident, the local newspa

Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways.In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of the communities both curr

Issue 25 of Copper Nickel is aesthetically diverse, featuring translation “folios” by 12th century Chinese poet Li Qingzhao, Chilean Nobel Prize-winner Gabriela Mistral, and Iranian short story writer

Winner of the National Poetry SeriesMothers masquerading as witches and sepulchral bellhops who reveal themselves to be fathers: in Justin Boening’s debut collection of poems, selected for the Nationa

Copper Nickel Issue 22 will feature three essays on contemporary publishing by Dalkey Archive Press founder John O’Brien,Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin, and Virginia Quarterly Review digital editor an

Issue 26 of Copper Nickel is diverse, featuring translation “folios” of work by Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Gaugen, Franco-Algerian poet Samira Negrouche, and Austrian poet Elisabeth Schmeidel; poems by

?I grew up on the world’s largest island.” This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton’s beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia’s unique landscape, an

The Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry is an annual regional prize, presented in partnership by Milkweed Editions and the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation. Established in 2011 with the aim of supportin

From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, S

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated,

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limón, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia,

Winner of the Espiral Poetry Prize for Best Collection in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, and GaliciaLove. Sex. Death. Meat. Traffic. Pets. In Cattle of the Lord, Rosa Alice Branco offers a stunning poetic

“A very American book, and an important one for our time.” —CATE MARVINFor almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful,

Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary second collection of poetry, feeld, is a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, d