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August 18, 2020
Film Review: Losing Ground
HANNAH GERSEN
Losing Ground wasn’t the first thing I watched, but it was the movie that got me hooked on the channel, for the way it brought me into what felt like a lost world.
Losing Ground wasn’t the first thing I watched, but it was the movie that got me hooked on the channel, for the way it brought me into what felt like a lost world.
August 17, 2020
Reading Black Voices: TC Staff Picks IV
TC STAFF
This is the third in a series of features highlighting the Black writers our editors and staff have been reading. To read The Common’s statement in support of the nationwide protests against anti-Black racism, white supremacy, and police brutality, click here.
This is the third in a series of features highlighting the Black writers our editors and staff have been reading. To read The Common’s statement in support of the nationwide protests against anti-Black racism, white supremacy, and police brutality, click here.
August 14, 2020
August 2020 Poetry Feature: Raisa Tolchinsky
RAISA TOLCHINSKY
These poems are a way of writing into the imagined life where I became a boxer instead of a poet & scholar. Through this work I am also asking: how does the poem function as a body? How does the page function as a ring?
These poems are a way of writing into the imagined life where I became a boxer instead of a poet & scholar. Through this work I am also asking: how does the poem function as a body? How does the page function as a ring?
August 13, 2020
Resources to help you plan for the fall semester
We know this fall’s going to be a weird one. We’re here to help with your classroom (or home school) planning! Here’s one thought: Give your students a break from the screen by putting print issues of The Common in their hands– just $20/student: Two issues for each student, free desk copies for teachers (that means you too, parents!),
Anzhelina Polonskaya: Russian Poetry in Translation
ANZHELINA POLONSKAYA
O rose of ash, /
you enter from worlds of mourning, /
into bright sadness, /
and no one can rip out your thorns. / The convoy never sleeps! – enveloped by silence / the night before the execution. / But a song wafts from somewhere far away, / the festivities continue.
O rose of ash, /
you enter from worlds of mourning, /
into bright sadness, /
and no one can rip out your thorns. / The convoy never sleeps! – enveloped by silence / the night before the execution. / But a song wafts from somewhere far away, / the festivities continue.
August 12, 2020
Ice Cave, Late March
AURORA SHIMSHAK
I create an occasion for my grandmother. I don’t call it anything, but it’s an occasion nonetheless. For the occasion we travel in her car to the park she shared with me when I was small.
I create an occasion for my grandmother. I don’t call it anything, but it’s an occasion nonetheless. For the occasion we travel in her car to the park she shared with me when I was small.
August 11, 2020
Excerpt from Private Means
CREE LeFAVOUR
Her very ability to offer the reward when others could not inflamed her well-developed sense of existential hypocrisy, of how claustrophobically fucked the world had become. This claustrophobic feeling, since the girls left in the fall, had driven her to fill her waking moments with work.
Her very ability to offer the reward when others could not inflamed her well-developed sense of existential hypocrisy, of how claustrophobically fucked the world had become. This claustrophobic feeling, since the girls left in the fall, had driven her to fill her waking moments with work.
August 7, 2020
Friday Reads: August 2020
Curated by ISABEL MEYERS
Welcome back to Friday Reads! After a brief hiatus, we are returning with selections from former TC interns that have educated and entertained them during quarantine. To find out what our former editorial assistants have been doing to pass the long days inside, read on.
Welcome back to Friday Reads! After a brief hiatus, we are returning with selections from former TC interns that have educated and entertained them during quarantine. To find out what our former editorial assistants have been doing to pass the long days inside, read on.
August 5, 2020
Amplifying Black Voices on TC Online II
This is the second installment of an online series highlighting work by Black authors published in The Common. To read The Common’s statement in support of the nationwide protests against anti-Black racism, white supremacy, and police brutality, click here. How Do You Get to Harlem? by Tyree Daye Tyree Daye is the author of poetry collections River Hymns, a 2017
July 31, 2020
July 2020 Poetry Feature: Steven Leyva and Elizabeth Scanlon
STEVEN LEYVA
Get down to the smallest birthright / I cannot claim: say beignets / and doesn’t the stutter of hot oil start / to sizzle the small plates of memory? / Faces powdered with sugar, no thought /
to whose ancestors cut which cane, sing /
a hymn of “mmm, mmm, mmm.” /
Jackson square hangs its portraits...
Get down to the smallest birthright / I cannot claim: say beignets / and doesn’t the stutter of hot oil start / to sizzle the small plates of memory? / Faces powdered with sugar, no thought /
to whose ancestors cut which cane, sing /
a hymn of “mmm, mmm, mmm.” /
Jackson square hangs its portraits...
