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 Payam Yazdanjoo; poetry by Dilruba Ahmed, Michael Bazzett, Talia Bloch, Graham Foust, John Gallaher, Tony Hoagland, Cynthia Hogue, Ashley Keyser, Sara Eliza Johnson, Peter LaBerge, Shara Lessley, Adrian C. Louis, Kevin Prufer, Elizabeth Scanlon, Analicia Sotelo, Juned Subhan, Ellen Doré Watson, Lesley Wheeler, &c.; fiction by Meagan Ciesla, Viet Dinh, Joel Morris, Joanna Pearson, and Pete Stevens; and nonfiction by Robert Archambeau, Alex McElroy, and Hasanthika Sirisena.

The cover of this issue features work by Denver-based painter and collagist Daisy Patton.