Jennifer Acker's Blog, page 36
September 15, 2023
The Common Adds Attorney Meredith Dodd plus Business Leader Emilie Eliason ’99 to Board of Directors
NEWS AND EVENTS
The Common, Amherst College’s award-winning, international literary magazine, announces the addition of two new members to its Board of Directors: Meredith Dodd and Emilie Eliason ’99.
The Common, Amherst College’s award-winning, international literary magazine, announces the addition of two new members to its Board of Directors: Meredith Dodd and Emilie Eliason ’99.
September 14, 2023
Excerpt from Radio Big Mouth
ANA HEBRA FLASTER
On that last normal afternoon in the barrio, I was where I always was after school, chasing skinny hens in my Abuela Cuca’s yard, the smell of hot rubber wafting from my grandfather’s stamping machine in the shed. I played at Abuela Cuca’s house every afternoon until dinnertime, when the sky started to whisper about night.
On that last normal afternoon in the barrio, I was where I always was after school, chasing skinny hens in my Abuela Cuca’s yard, the smell of hot rubber wafting from my grandfather’s stamping machine in the shed. I played at Abuela Cuca’s house every afternoon until dinnertime, when the sky started to whisper about night.
Red Currants
CATHARINA COENEN
Sometimes red currants at the farmer’s market glow like dashboard warning lights, the sugar in my shopping basket drags on my arm like lead, and sweetness, beauty, danger taste the same. Sometimes my eyes project the letters from a sign outside the Licht- und Luftbad in Essen, Germany.
Sometimes red currants at the farmer’s market glow like dashboard warning lights, the sugar in my shopping basket drags on my arm like lead, and sweetness, beauty, danger taste the same. Sometimes my eyes project the letters from a sign outside the Licht- und Luftbad in Essen, Germany.
Read Excerpts by the Finalists for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2023
NEWS AND EVENTS
Migration is an increasingly common feature of modern life. Whether for personal or for political or environmental reasons, when people cross the many thresholds of our world—traversing landscapes, languages, traditions, and border lines—they do so often at great personal risk.
Migration is an increasingly common feature of modern life. Whether for personal or for political or environmental reasons, when people cross the many thresholds of our world—traversing landscapes, languages, traditions, and border lines—they do so often at great personal risk.
Excerpt from How to Be UnMothered
CAMILLE U. ADAMS
Come now. Peer through the fancy blocks in the walls’ top. And watch. Three little girls in a semicircle. One perched on the edge of the couch. Not sitting back comfortable. Looking on at the tableau, troubled. That’s me. Pan next to the other daughter sitting fold up in an armchair.
Come now. Peer through the fancy blocks in the walls’ top. And watch. Three little girls in a semicircle. One perched on the edge of the couch. Not sitting back comfortable. Looking on at the tableau, troubled. That’s me. Pan next to the other daughter sitting fold up in an armchair.
Erasure
A. MOLOTKOV
It’s New Year’s Eve 2019, the chief holiday for me, an irreligious relic of the dreaded Soviet system. I call my mother’s friend, Bronya. Since Mom’s death in 2004, I’ve stayed in touch. Bronya met Mom at school around the age of ten.
It’s New Year’s Eve 2019, the chief holiday for me, an irreligious relic of the dreaded Soviet system. I call my mother’s friend, Bronya. Since Mom’s death in 2004, I’ve stayed in touch. Bronya met Mom at school around the age of ten.
September 13, 2023
Champagne and Oysters
GARY ZEBRUN
I suppose Bruno had one admirable human quality: he liked movies, especially old ones. When people said, there must be something you respected about your father, I’d say rien in a nod to my Francophile mother and add, well, he did save the Ziegfeld.
I suppose Bruno had one admirable human quality: he liked movies, especially old ones. When people said, there must be something you respected about your father, I’d say rien in a nod to my Francophile mother and add, well, he did save the Ziegfeld.
September 11, 2023
Moving Beyond the Trappings of Multilingualism: Farah Ali interviews Dur e Aziz Amna
DUR E AZIZ AMNA
Sontag talks about tuberculosis as this romantic disease plaguing literary figures throughout Europe, a disease that was considered almost spiritual. At the same time, it is also a disease of poverty, of close quarters, of urban filth.
Sontag talks about tuberculosis as this romantic disease plaguing literary figures throughout Europe, a disease that was considered almost spiritual. At the same time, it is also a disease of poverty, of close quarters, of urban filth.
September 7, 2023
Translation: “James Joyce” by Muhammad Zafzaf
MUHAMMAD ZAFZAF
He opens the bottle of red, remembers the words of James Joyce: “White wine awakens the legs, but red wine awakens the head.” He was knocking them back with Nino Frank, with Sam Beckett, with Gillet and the others, and still he could write no more than two books.
He opens the bottle of red, remembers the words of James Joyce: “White wine awakens the legs, but red wine awakens the head.” He was knocking them back with Nino Frank, with Sam Beckett, with Gillet and the others, and still he could write no more than two books.
September 6, 2023
Two Poems by Liza Katz Duncan
LIZA KATZ DUNCAN
First the marsh grass came, then the motherwort, / then bitterberry and honeysuckle. Blackbirds, / gulls and grackles built their nests. / Mourning doves call from the eaves / of the old factory, closed during the Depression.
First the marsh grass came, then the motherwort, / then bitterberry and honeysuckle. Blackbirds, / gulls and grackles built their nests. / Mourning doves call from the eaves / of the old factory, closed during the Depression.
