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March 6, 2019
2019 AWP Writers Conference in Portland
The Common will host a booth at AWP 2019 from March 27-30. Visit us at table T7040, and check out these panels, featuring Editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker and Managing Editor Emily Everett! More info below.
2018 AWP Writers Conference in Portland
The Common will host a booth at AWP 2019 from March 27-30. Visit us at table T7040, and check out these panels, featuring Editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker and Managing Editor Emily Everett! More info below.
Birds of Passage: A Review
HANNAH GERSEN
Set in Colombia… the film is told from the perspective of a Wayúu family who live in the arid, northern region of the country and become significant exporters of marijuana to the U.S. Their success in the drug trade… pulls them into a world of violence and greed that engulfs and divides their family and their community.
Set in Colombia… the film is told from the perspective of a Wayúu family who live in the arid, northern region of the country and become significant exporters of marijuana to the U.S. Their success in the drug trade… pulls them into a world of violence and greed that engulfs and divides their family and their community.
March 4, 2019
We Write Our Own Past: 10 Questions with Elias Farkouh
ELIAS FARKOUH
The places I’ve lived in and the people I’ve lived with—in all their different characteristics, their professions that became part of who they are and their familiar or odd ways of life—are all carved in my memory forever. It is a rich repertoire, a fertile panorama inviting me to write. We often write our own past.
The places I’ve lived in and the people I’ve lived with—in all their different characteristics, their professions that became part of who they are and their familiar or odd ways of life—are all carved in my memory forever. It is a rich repertoire, a fertile panorama inviting me to write. We often write our own past.
February 27, 2019
The Capital of God’s Own State
BLESSING OFIA-INYINYA NWODO
Umuahia is the place your mother was born. When you remember Umuahia, you remember the swing in the house opposite your mother's family’s house.
Umuahia is the place your mother was born. When you remember Umuahia, you remember the swing in the house opposite your mother's family’s house.
February 25, 2019
As We Approach the City
MIK AWAKE's
I am walking my dog in the park when I see it, a caution display, one of many placed throughout New York on a given day, warning of bridge closures, flooded roads, construction ahead.
I am walking my dog in the park when I see it, a caution display, one of many placed throughout New York on a given day, warning of bridge closures, flooded roads, construction ahead.
February 22, 2019
Join Us For Amherst College LitFest 2019
Amherst College's fourth annual LitFest will be hosted on February 27 – March 2 of this year. Co-hosted by The Common, this year's events feature panels with 2018 National Book Award Fiction Finalists Jamel Brinkley and Brandon Hobson, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction author Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning science writer Charles C. Mann, and more.
February 2019 Poetry Feature
PEGGY O'BRIEN
Only a woman could conceive of such a plan,/ Adamantine and then fleece, a perfect lamb,/ Her gloating all the sweeter for the bitter/ Dose I self-prescribed as divine justice./ I’m built like an ox, low to the ground, but my hide/
Is skin and I’d been banging with all my weight...
Only a woman could conceive of such a plan,/ Adamantine and then fleece, a perfect lamb,/ Her gloating all the sweeter for the bitter/ Dose I self-prescribed as divine justice./ I’m built like an ox, low to the ground, but my hide/
Is skin and I’d been banging with all my weight...
February 21, 2019
Details, Description, and Difference: 11 Questions with Haifa’ Abul-Nadi
HAIFA ABUL-NADI
Having my work translated means that my stories will be read by a greater number of people from various parts of the world. It can be a preparation for and a necessary antidote to bridge the gap of ethnic and cultural differences and teach readers about the richness of the human patrimony.
Having my work translated means that my stories will be read by a greater number of people from various parts of the world. It can be a preparation for and a necessary antidote to bridge the gap of ethnic and cultural differences and teach readers about the richness of the human patrimony.
February 20, 2019
From A Lucky Man
Excerpt from the novel A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley James kept busy at the security desk now, doing the work of both men while Lincoln sat there with his stomach on his lap. He felt a sort of bond with James now, a familiar gratitude. But one gets sick and tired of saying thank you.
