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Copper Nickel

In 2002, poet Jake Adam York founded Copper Nickel at the University of Colorado Denver. He died 10 years later at age 40, and the magazine went on hiatus until poet and professor Wayne Miller relaunched it in 2014. The biannual print publication – which includes selected works on its website – features fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and writing in translation.

“Translation folios distinguish us from other magazines,” Miller says, referring to the editors’ inclusion of three to five poems by a single poet and translator.

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