Issue 26 of Copper Nickel features a diverse collection including translation "folios" of work by Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Gaugen, Franco-Algerian poet Samira Negrouche, and Austrian poet Elisabeth Schmeidel; poems by National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Ada Limón, four-time Pushcart Prize winner Kevin Prufer, Yale Younger Poetry Series winner Fady Joudah, National Poetry Series winner Noah Eli Gordon, Canto Mundo fellow Rosebud Ben-Oni, NEA fellows James Hoch, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Melissa Stein, Rockefeller Foundation fellow Robert Wrigley, Lambda Literary Award winner Maureen Seaton, as well as numerous emerging poets; fiction by Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award recipient Ladee Hubbard, Story Prize finalist Daphne Kalotay, as well as emerging writers Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice, Emily Chiles, and Gianni Skaragas; and nonfiction by NEA fellows Don Bogen and James Allen Hall, Kudiman Fellow Shamala Gallagher, Best American Essays contributor Matthew Vollmer, and newcomer Sari Boren.

The cover features work by Denver-based artist Rebecca Berlin.