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August 31, 2023
August 2023 Poetry Feature
L.S. KLATT
My neighbor really has nothing to do / but mow his grass & watch television. / It’s the quiet life for him. The adhesive / bandage of his tongue comes out as / rarely as his partner. And the dog? I / could say anything about him & no one / would know the difference. That sounds / cruel.
My neighbor really has nothing to do / but mow his grass & watch television. / It’s the quiet life for him. The adhesive / bandage of his tongue comes out as / rarely as his partner. And the dog? I / could say anything about him & no one / would know the difference. That sounds / cruel.
August 28, 2023
Review: Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare
Review by MARIAH RIGG
Comfort is not the right word to describe Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s work, though it is true of how I felt spending time with the characters and settings of her debut collection, so many of which resembled the people and places that populated my own childhood.
Comfort is not the right word to describe Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s work, though it is true of how I felt spending time with the characters and settings of her debut collection, so many of which resembled the people and places that populated my own childhood.
August 25, 2023
Ala Fox on “Ramadan in Saint-Denis”
ALA FOX
Ala Fox speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Ramadan in Saint-Denis,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue.
Ala Fox speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Ramadan in Saint-Denis,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue.
August 23, 2023
Into the Woods
ANNE P. BEATTY
A mile into the woods, I am always slightly afraid. Fear’s lace knots the cuff of an otherwise lovely afternoon. Nights, when I peek out of the tent, the moon is a bright friend too far away to help.
A mile into the woods, I am always slightly afraid. Fear’s lace knots the cuff of an otherwise lovely afternoon. Nights, when I peek out of the tent, the moon is a bright friend too far away to help.
August 14, 2023
The Magnetic Pull of Place: An Interview with Rosanna Young Oh
ROSANNA YOUNG OH
A schoolteacher gifted me a Barnes & Noble edition of Jane Eyre when I was in the seventh grade. To overcome moments of self-doubt in my childhood, I kept thinking back to Jane’s outburst to Rochester: “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?”
A schoolteacher gifted me a Barnes & Noble edition of Jane Eyre when I was in the seventh grade. To overcome moments of self-doubt in my childhood, I kept thinking back to Jane’s outburst to Rochester: “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?”
August 9, 2023
Two Poems by Michael Mercurio
MICHAEL MERCURIO
The Silver Top no longer sits / adrift in a field of periwinkle / gravel; I’ve heard it’s reborn, / polished chrome and all, some- / where new.
The Silver Top no longer sits / adrift in a field of periwinkle / gravel; I’ve heard it’s reborn, / polished chrome and all, some- / where new.
August 4, 2023
The Common Magazine Announces Fourth Literary Editorial Fellow
NEWS AND EVENTS
The Common, the award-winning, international literary journal based at Amherst College, has announced its fourth Literary Editorial Fellow: Olive Amdur ’23.
The Common, the award-winning, international literary journal based at Amherst College, has announced its fourth Literary Editorial Fellow: Olive Amdur ’23.
The Common Magazine Announces 2023-24 Thomas E. Wood ’61 Fellow
NEWS AND EVENTS
The Common, the award-winning, international literary journal based at Amherst College, has announced its sixth Thomas E. Wood ’61 Fellow: Sarah Wu ’25.
The Common, the award-winning, international literary journal based at Amherst College, has announced its sixth Thomas E. Wood ’61 Fellow: Sarah Wu ’25.
August 3, 2023
Translation: Excerpt from A SPACE BOUNDED BY SHADOWS
EMINE SEVGI ÖZDAMAR
The man started talking in Turkish, ‘Mari doesn’t live in Paris anymore.’ ‘Oh, oh!’ ‘She met someone two months ago and left for Canada with him. I live here now.’ ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘she was my best friend in Istanbul. Oh, dear, have I come too late, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh?’ Then I went silent.
The man started talking in Turkish, ‘Mari doesn’t live in Paris anymore.’ ‘Oh, oh!’ ‘She met someone two months ago and left for Canada with him. I live here now.’ ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘she was my best friend in Istanbul. Oh, dear, have I come too late, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh?’ Then I went silent.
July 31, 2023
Review: Poems of Encounter in Dipika Mukherjee’s Dialect of Distant Harbors
Review by LYNNE MCENIRY
Through experiences both lived and dreamed, her poems invite the reader to discover beauty, danger, and heartbreak by exploring new worlds and revealing heart-stopping moments of intimacy.
Through experiences both lived and dreamed, her poems invite the reader to discover beauty, danger, and heartbreak by exploring new worlds and revealing heart-stopping moments of intimacy.
