Y’all…good news!
Last night was the release party for Copper Nickel, Issue 13. With a room filled with some of Colorado’s finest poets and fiction authors, I couldn’t help but feel the power of a meeting of creative minds gathered in solidarity with our works and the continuation of tradition: an expression of support in the literary journal. Where academia is preoccupied with the fall of the “literary journal,” I assert that the release reading was the act of taking a stand for its importance to our communities.
I absolutely encourage you to order yourselves a copy of CN13, which you can check out here: http://www.copper-nickel.org/
The reading portion of the evening, inaugurated by chief editor and accomplished poet Jake Adam York, began with a stellar performance by Adrian Matejka. Please check out some of his work here: http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/adrian_matejka/index.shtml
Subsequent readers, including Noah Eli Gordon, Scott Beck, Leia Darwish Clark, J. Michael Martinez, Jef Otte, Ashlie Schweitzer, myself and others, led the evening into a rich display of style, form, and tone.
All in all, it was/is an honor to be included alongside many of my mentors and amongst so many authors who have served as inspiration in my journey.
Here’s the first video link…I’ll talk with Noah and see if I could include the video of his reading, as well:
