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“Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee“I’m committed to uncovering the culture of my people. I’m com­mitted to learning as much of the language as I can. I’ve always loved this land, and I’ve always loved Indian people. The more I dig into it, the more I interact with my Indian relatives, the more it blooms in my heart. The more it blooms in my spirit.”Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous people alluring, often recalling his grandmother’s consistent mention of their Chippewa heritage.When La Tray attended his grandfather’s funeral as a young man, he finally found himself surrounded by relatives who obviously were Indigenous. “Who were they?” he wondered, and “Why was I never allowed to know them?” Combining diligent research and compelling conversations with authors, activists, elders, and historians, La Tray embarks on a journey into his family’s past, discovering along the way a larger story of the complicated history of Indigenous communities—as well as the devastating effects of colonialism that continue to ripple through surviving generations. And as he comes to embrace his full identity, he eventually seeks enrollment with the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, joining their 158-year-long struggle for federal recognition. Both personal and historical, Becoming Little Shell is a testament to the power of storytelling, to family and legacy, and to finding home. Infused with candor, heart, wisdom, and an abiding love for a place and a people, Chris La Tray’s remarkable journey is both revelatory and redemptive.

"In 2010, experienced wilderness travelers Amy and Dave Freeman married and set out on an unusual honeymoon: a 12,000 mile, human-powered journey across North America"--

A lucid memoir reckoning with grief and the search for understanding in the wake of a sister’s suicide.Rebecca Spiegel is working as a teacher in New Orleans when she learns of her sister Emily’s death by suicide. Shocked, she flies back to Philadelphia. To family. To funeral preparations. To the service. Only after she leaves her parents’ house does the shock give way to grief.In the years that follow, Spiegel embarks on a physical, mental, and emotional voyage. She visits Emily’s dorm, digs through her computer. She parses old journal entries and emails. She recalls Emily’s visit to New Orleans mere days before her death, wondering what signs she might have missed. In documenting the last traces of her sister’s life, Spiegel also confronts their parents’ failings, as well as her family’s history of depression, anxiety, OCD, addiction, and disordered eating. She faces her own regrets too. “I wish I had untangled myself from myself,” she writes of her sister’s final visit. “I wish I had been able to see that I was okay and she wasn’t.”With each powerful detail resurfaced, Spiegel attempts to put into words what is incomprehensible. She plumbs the depths of her loss in an effort to understand her sister, to uncover logic where it is most elusive. What she finds instead is that there is no narrative on the other side of grief like this. There is no answer, no easy resolution—only those that leave, and those that keep living. Unflinchingly honest, visceral, and raw, this courageous elegy lays bare the hard realities of surviving the loss of a loved one.

An imaginative anthology of climate fiction from emerging new voices, curated by the editors of Grist Magazine.For many of us, the thought of our planet centuries in the future signals a volatile dystopia: our world devastated by climate change, our people bitter and broken. But this shining anthology presents an alternative future. These twelve winning selections from Grist’s Imagine 2200 short story contest shirk the fear and mourning that often mark speculative climate fiction, daring instead to dream of humanity’s varied communities meeting planetary challenges in fascinating and novel ways.Imagine 2200 was founded to counter the dominance of the dystopian in futurist writings, and to “ensure climate stories and characters represent diverse voices, authentic cultures, and the intersectional reality of the climate crisis.” Metamorphosis beautifully elucidates those themes, featuring a wide array of thought—Afro-, Asian, Indigenous, Latinx, disabled, feminist, and queer futurisms, hopepunk, solarpunk, and more. In “To Labor for the Hive,” a beekeeper finds purpose and new love after collaborating on a bee-based warning system for floods. “Cabbage Koora: A Prognostic Autobiography” presents an ecologically rebalancing California where an Indian family preserves traditions through food and dance across generations. And in “And Now the Shade,” a Mexican bioengineer finds the answer to a perplexing problem in the dreams of her dying grandmother. Each of these powerful stories offers a glimpse of a future built not on cynicism, but on “sustainability, inclusivity, and justice,” testifying to the power of human courage and collective resilience.Edited by Grist and introduced by Sheree Renée Thomas, a New York Times best-selling author and editor of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Metamorphosis will electrify and activate readers concerned about our “future ancestors” and the fate of all our attending flora and fauna. These stunning stories imagine a tomorrow in which we do more than survive: we thrive—together.

An NPR Best Book of the Year“The Quickening is a book of hope.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyAn astonishing, vital work about Antarctica, climate change, and community.In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: the ominous Thwaites Glacier at Antarctica’s western edge. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans. And with them is author Elizabeth Rush, who seeks, among other things, the elusive voice of the ice.Rush shares her story of a groundbreaking voyage punctuated by both the sublime—the tangible consequences of our melting icecaps; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites—and the everyday moments of living and working in community. A ping-pong tournament at sea. Long hours in the lab. All the effort that goes into caring for the human and more-than-human worlds. Along the way, Rush takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to create and celebrate life in a time of radical planetary change?What emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting and heroism but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized. Urgent, brave, and vulnerable, The Quickening is an absorbing account of hope from one of our most celebrated and treasured contemporary authors.

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Jury and Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo’s Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of Remind Me Again What Happened and The Beach at Galle Road)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of Vanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and fiction editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth), Christopher Merkner (author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic), and Emily Wortman-Wunder (author of Not a Thing to Comfort You).Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been regularly selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, Best Literary Translations, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has often been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays. According to Clifford Garstang’s 2023 literary journal rankings, Copper Nickel is ranked number 10 for poetry and number 34 for fiction, out of more than 700 regularly publishing literary journals.Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the Nobel Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Pulitzer Prize; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the Prix Max Jacob; the Griffin Poetry Prize; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as fellowships from the NEA and the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations.Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationally to bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Accelerate 360.Issue 38 Includes:• A Symposium on the work of poet Reginald Shepherd, featuring seven poems by Shepherd and critical appraisals by National Book Award–winner Robin Coste Lewis, National Book Award–finalist Tommye Blount, Rilke Prize–winner Rick Barot, PEN Open Book Margins Award–winner Timothy Liu, Guggenheim Fellow Paisley Rekdal, Lama Rod Owens, Camille Rankine, and Charles Stephens.• Translation Folios with work by South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, translated by Cindy Juyong Ok; Italian poet Vivian Lamarque, translated by Geoffrey Brock; German poet Jan Wagner, translated by David Keplinger; Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, translated by Khaled Mattawa.• New Poetry by Hurston/Wright Legacy Award–winner Myronn Hardy, Whiting Award–winner Diannely Antigua, Guggenheim Fellow Geoffrey Brock, Amy Lowell Fellow Rebecca Lindenberg, Rome Fellow Mark Halliday, Eric Gregory Award–winner James Conor Patterson, Alice Fay di Castagnola Award–winner Melissa Kwasny, Ruth Lilly Fellow Matthew Nienow, NEA Fellows Traci Brimhall and Chris Forhan, Iowa Poetry Prize–winner Stephanie Choi, and relative newcomers Mya Mateo Alexice, Katie Condon, Saúl Hernández, Dana Isokawa, James Jabar, Tyler Raso, and Cintia Santana.• New Fiction by Betty Gabehart Prize–winner Jennifer Militello, Fulbright Scholar Matthew Lawrence Garcia, Anthony M. Abboreno, Rebecca Entel, Xavier Balckwell-Lipkind, Randy F. Nelson, and Allyson Stack.• A New Essay by Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award–winner Hasanthika Sirisena.• Cover Art by Oakland-based artist Stephanie Syjuco.Contributor LocationsContributors to issue 38 come from all over the country and the world.U.S. cities/regions where contributors are concentrated include:Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff; contributor Cindy Juyong Ok)Los Angeles, CA (contributing editors Victoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson,and Chris Santiago)San Francisco Bay Area, CA (cover artist Stephanie Syjuco; contributing editor Randall Mann)Atlanta, GA (contributors Lama Rod Owens and Charles Stephens)Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributor Allison Adair; contributing editors Martha Collins andFrederick Reiken)Baltimore, MD (contributors Joseph J. Capista and Carol Quinn)Detroit, MI (contributors Tommye Blount and Isaac Pickell)Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributing editor V. V.Ganeshananthan)Missoula, MT (contributor Melissa Kwasny; contributing editor Sean Hill)Greensboro, NC (contributors James Jabar and Rhett Iseman Trull; contributing editor EmiliaPhillips)New York, NY (contributors Dana Isokawa and Maja Lukic)Pittsburgh, PA (contributors Jan Beatty and Camille Rankine; contributing editors Joy Katz andKevin Haworth)Dallas, TX (contributor Katie Condon; contributing editor Tarfia Faizullah)Seattle, WA (contributors Rick Barot and Matthew Nienow)US Cities/Regions with single contributors:West Hartford, CT (contributor Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind)Washington, DC (contributor David Keplinger)Boca Raton, FL (contributing editor A. Papatya Bucak)Davenport, IA (contributor Anthony M. Abboreno)Iowa City, IA (contributor Rebecca Entel)Boise, ID (contributing editor Emily Ruskovich)Chicago, IL (contributing editor Robert Archambeau)Indianapolis, IN (contributor Chris Forhan)Richmond, IN (contributor Christen Noel Kauffman)Bloomington, IN (contributor Tyler Raso)Manhattan, KS (contributor Traci Brimhall)Lexington, KY (contributing editor Ada Limón)Haverhill, MA (contributor Diannely Antigua)Lewiston, ME (contributor Myronn Hardy)Ann Arbor, MI (contributor Khaled Matttawa)Grand Rapids, MI (contributor Andrew Collard)Kansas City, MO (contributing editor Robert Long Foreman)Saint Louis, MO (contributing editor Niki Herd)Davidson, NC (contributor Randy F. Nelson)Lincoln, NE (contributor James Brunton)Manchester, NH (contributor Jennifer Millitello)Jersey City, NJ (contributor Mya Matteo Alexice)Princeton, NJ (contributing editor James Richardson)Canton, NY (contributing editor Pedro Ponce)Woodstock, NY (contributor Timothy Liu)Athens, OH (contributor Mark Halliday)Cincinnati, OH (contributor Rebecca Lindenberg)Tulsa, OK (contributing editor Kaveh Bassiri)Ashland, OR (contributor Cynthia Boersma)Selinsgrove, PA (contributor Hasanthika Sirisena)Philadelphia, PA (contributing editor Adrienne Perry)Greenville, SC (contributor Emily Cinquemani)Sewanee, TN (contributor Stephanie Choi)San Antonio, TX (contributor Saúl Hernández)St. George, UT (contributor Cindy King)Salt Lake City, UT (contributor Paisley Rekdal)Middlebury, VT (contributor Carolyn Orosz)Houston, TX (contributing editor Kevin Prufer)Blacksburg, VA (contributing editor Janine Joseph)International contributors live in:Düsseldorf, GERMANY (Matthew Lawrence Garcia)Milan, ITALY (Vivian Lamarque)Seoul, SOUTH KOREA (Kim Hyesoon)Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM (Allyson Stack)London, UNITED KINGDOM (James Conor Patterson)

"Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love"--

"Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated writers"--

French literary icon Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932¿2019) is known for an uncanny inhabitation of the concrete, finding whole worlds, even afterlives, in daily instances and spaces. ¿If I could seize a little nothing / a bit of nothing,¿ she muses, ¿all things would come to me / those that dance / in its cloth.¿ The tiniest moments can be acts of utterance, defiance, communion, and immortality. Yet death does indeed appear in the everyday, though it¿s more than a fact of existence. It is fiction as well, small cunning stories we create so we¿re not merely waiting for it: ¿one sets / close by / the pot of orange flowers / the here and now / to block the view.¿ Here, the infinitesimal has no end; the smaller life gets, the deeper and more carefully Bancquart has us pause to notice its offerings. Though for her ¿the body¿ is the surest, most trustworthy way of knowing, the mystery of language is often referenced, and reverenced. And translator Jody Gladding, an award-winning poet herself, beautifully carries forward Bancquart¿s lifetime of distinctive work. Every Minute Is First is lean, lucid yet philosophical poetry, reflecting visceral life and experiential thought, walking in the dark with a light, lighting words¿or alighting on them¿in their own incandescent power to make the long-lived journey meaningful.

·       The author is incredibly prolific and has won numerous awards, including the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Nightboat Poetry Prize, the Rome Prize and the Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetry·      The book’s explorationof history and the fallen empire of Rome will appeal to a wide readership

“Beautifully written, The Eighth Moon uses a very light touch to probe the most essential, unresolvable questions of belief, kinship, fidelity, history, identity” (Chris Kraus).When an ongoing illness refuses to resolve, Jennifer Kabat returns from London to Margaretville—a rural village in the Catskill Mountains, not far from where she grew up. As her body heals, she discovers meadows dotted with milkweed in bloom, saffron orange salamanders, grackles nesting in arborvitae, ash trees marked with orange blazes, a blood moon. Small patches of land begin to hold glimpses of the past—and of what is yet to come. “I feel, too, all the other people on the land, beating and breathing into this moment with me.”As her life in Margaretville expands, Kabat comes to know her socialist yet conservative neighbors and reflects on her unconventional upbringing, including the progressive politics her parents instilled in her at a young age. She also comes to find that the history of this region is steeped in trauma. Once home to merciless land barons who bound tenants to the land in perpetuity, Upstate New York—her very street—was the site of the Anti-Rent War of the 1800s, in which tenants revolted and blood was shed. Connectedness abounds in Kabat’s way of seeing: the former revolution and the political conditions of today, a wax plant that mysteriously ebbs and flows with her mother’s declining health and eventual passing. “Grief is strange,” she says. “Time blurs. The dead are alive and present.”“Kabat is both a stylist and a temporal magician,” (Adrian Shirk). Ambitious and expertly threaded, The Eighth Moon is at once a search for how to live in a place and an enigmatic lesson in a new kind of seeing—one where everything is connected, and all at once.

Book is a collection of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated postwar Europe poets, who is known as a cultural icon who protested Communism The author’s work introduces a singular perspective on the liberatory politics and histories of Slovenia, the former Yugoslavia and EuropeThe book’s translator is widely connected across the literary, translation and poetry communities The author’s work has been widely celebrated and praised by the Paris Review, the Guardian and Publishers WeeklyThe book is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive English-language retrospective of the poet’s long career and will attract media and readers interested in examining poetry as protest and the histories of Eastern Europe

¿My language was born among trees, / it holds the taste of earth; / my ancestors¿ tongue is my home.¿ So writes Humberto Ak¿abal, a K¿iche¿ Maya poet born in Momostenango, in the western highlands of Guatemala. A legacy of land and language courses through the pages of this spirited collection, offering an expansive take on this internationally renowned poet¿s work. Written originally in the Indigenous K¿iche¿ language and translated from the Spanish by acclaimed poet Michael Bazzett, these poems blossom from the landscape that raised Ak¿abal¿mountains covered in cloud forest, deep ravines, terraced fields of maize. His unpretentious verse models a contraconquistäcounter-conquest¿perspective, one that resists the impulse to impose meaning on the world and encourages us to receive it instead. ¿In church,¿ he writes, ¿the only prayer you hear / comes from the trees / they turned into pews.¿ Every living thing has its song, these poems suggest. We need only listen for it. Attuned, uncompromising, Ak¿abal teaches readers to recognize grace in every earthly observation¿in the wind, carrying a forgotten name. In the roots, whose floral messengers ¿tell us / what earth is like / on the inside.¿ Even in the birds, who ¿sing in mid-flight / and shit while flying.¿ At turns playful and pointed, this prescient entry in the Seedbank series is a transcendent celebration of both K¿iche¿ indigeneity and Ak¿abal¿s lifetime of work.

¿A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them.¿ At the end of the twentieth century, political upheavals seize upon an intergenerational Indigenous family of the Evenki tribe living deep in the forested mountains of Chinäs eastern edge. An elder spins the daily tales of family and community drama against the fray of Chinese, Japanese, and Russian nation-building and resource extraction. As our narrator¿s world is forced to the margins of empire and industrialization, her abiding and tender attention to her people¿s core relationships¿human, animal, spiritual, environmental¿becomes itself an act of resistance and a lesson in markedly different values. Acclaimed author Chi Zijian gives us an unabashedly intimate account of how an entire culture can be pushed to the vanishing point. With slowness and storytelling resisting the imposition of grand narratives and plot progression, she raises the stakes of this beautiful, deceptively simple read. Faithfully translated in word and intention by Bruce Humes, the book renders an Evenki experience of interdependence and reciprocity with the natural world, where wilderness is infused with domestic life and spiritual intervention. From reindeer herding and ice fishing, to Shamanic songs and rites, to tallies of marriages, births, and deaths, this nomadic clan contends with displacement on an existential scale.This essential addition to the Seedbank series shows real lives that don¿t conform to the march of modernization, speaking profoundly to real endangerment of Indigenous communities and knowledge across the world. ¿When I look again at the fawn that is nearer and nearer to us, it feels as if the pale-white crescent has fallen to the ground,¿ our narrator concludes. ¿I¿m crying, because I can no longer distinguish between heaven and earth.¿ This epic, internationally recognized work humbly challenges us to also see the moon and the reindeer¿and our future¿as one and the same.

The author is incredibly prolific has published work in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review and the Georgia ReviewThe author has published five collections of poems and is widely connected in the poetry community, including with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada LimónThe book’s accessible poems and exploration of grief will appeal to a wide readership

The author is incredibly prolific and has published seven books of poems and forty translations from French by authors such as Roland BarthesThe author is widely published in outlets like Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Arcadia Project and has won the Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemly AwardThe book’s exploration of internal and external grief, stemming from the loss of a family member and climate grief, will appeal to a wide readership

Author is widely published and his previous books have been acclaimed by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and David Mas MasumotoAuthor is a pioneer of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement and for thirty years has farmed one of the original CSAs, located in Amagansett, New YorkAlmost one thousand CSAs are listed on the USDA’s Local Food Directories, and according to data collected in 2015, over 7K farms in the U.S. sold products directly to consumers through a CSA program; the close-knit and vast community across the U.S. will read and share this book

Author has previously published two collections of poems, is widely published in literary outlets, and has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Audre Lorde Poetry AwardMajor authors Terry Tempest Williams and Margaret Renkl blurbed the book and are early supportersBook's package is vibrant, inviting and features photographs and newspaper clippings used in the author's family researchBook's intimate engagement with death by suicide, family inheritance, generational trauma and grief provides opportunities for wide coverage and readership; there are very few literary memoirs about suicide in the marketplace, and SINKHOLE uniquely blends memoir and ecological elegy to explore its impact on families and communitiesAccording to the CDC, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S.; in 2019, it was responsible for more than 47,500 deaths, 12 million American adults seriously thought about suicide, 3.5 million planned a suicide attempt, and a 1.4 million attempted suicide; it is incredibly common and impacts millions of lives, despite its lingering stigma and the silence surrounding suicide in cultural conversations

"A debut collection of poetry activated by sampling, troubling, and trespassing"--

"Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home-as place, as people, as body, and as language"--

"Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history's most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us."--

Hardcover release sold 4.5K copies across the marketplace and received a starred review from Shelf AwarenessAuthor’s previous books have sold more than 75K copies in multiple formats and were widely reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, NPR, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street JournalThe Chicago Tribune wrote that Driftless was “the best work of fiction to come out of the Midwest in many years”We expect strong blurbs from major writersBook’s engagement socioeconomic dynamics, class, wealth and poverty, the natural world, family, and community, and is a timely, relevant read

"Provocative and profound in its exploration of what makes us human, The Last Language is the story of Angela's work using an experimental therapy with her nonspeaking patient, Sam, and their relationship that ensues"--