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July 29, 2020
Statue
LISA WILLIAMSON ROSENBERG
As a little Black girl, you have not asked this question. The thing you think most about this statue outside the American Museum of Natural History is that there are never fewer than three pigeons roosting on it. There is always one on the highest spot.
As a little Black girl, you have not asked this question. The thing you think most about this statue outside the American Museum of Natural History is that there are never fewer than three pigeons roosting on it. There is always one on the highest spot.
July 27, 2020
Reading Black Voices: TC Staff Picks III
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.
July 22, 2020
Notes on Camp: 2020
VAL WANG
It was to be my first experience of summer camp, that quintessential American rite-of-passage. It would also be the first of many lessons in what summer camp reveals about what it means to be American – lessons that have come flooding back to me this summer.
It was to be my first experience of summer camp, that quintessential American rite-of-passage. It would also be the first of many lessons in what summer camp reveals about what it means to be American – lessons that have come flooding back to me this summer.
July 20, 2020
Amplifying Black Voices on TC Online
This is the first installment of an online series highlighting Black authors published in the 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.
July 17, 2020
July 2020 Poetry Feature: Loren Goodman
LOREN GOODMAN
In these last hours / Of the Passover Seder / It is said by the higher / Chasidic Scholars that time / Loses its essence and that /
We are at least once, with /
The help of memory (at this /
Time “even the future can be /
Remembered”) able to defeat / It. Something to do /
With the wine.
In these last hours / Of the Passover Seder / It is said by the higher / Chasidic Scholars that time / Loses its essence and that /
We are at least once, with /
The help of memory (at this /
Time “even the future can be /
Remembered”) able to defeat / It. Something to do /
With the wine.
July 16, 2020
Review: The Illness Lesson
ETHAN CHATAGNIER
The events of Clare Beams’ debut novel, The Illness Lesson, start with the founding of a school for girls in 19th-century New England, but the novel begins just before that with an omen. A flock of mysterious red birds visits the Massachusetts estate of Samuel Hood.
The events of Clare Beams’ debut novel, The Illness Lesson, start with the founding of a school for girls in 19th-century New England, but the novel begins just before that with an omen. A flock of mysterious red birds visits the Massachusetts estate of Samuel Hood.
July 15, 2020
Goddamn
MORIEL ROTHMAN-ZECHER
The chunk of the ball / On the cracked blacktop / And our torsos so covered / In sweat nearby the sea / Swells and the smell seeps / Into our hair and the air / Turns into night all around us / And the pebbles of the ball / Still tickle our palms as smoke / Trickles into our lungs...
The chunk of the ball / On the cracked blacktop / And our torsos so covered / In sweat nearby the sea / Swells and the smell seeps / Into our hair and the air / Turns into night all around us / And the pebbles of the ball / Still tickle our palms as smoke / Trickles into our lungs...
July 13, 2020
Reading Black Voices: TC Staff Picks II
TC EDITORIAL STAFF
This is the second 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 second 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.
July 9, 2020
George Seferis: Poetry in Translation from Greek
GEORGE SEFERIS
When I close my eyes, I find myself in an expansive darkness / the color of dawn; I sense it on your fingertips. / Forget the lie that helped you live. / Bare your feet, bare your eyes— / very few things remain when we've bared ourselves / but in the end we can see them exactly as they are.
When I close my eyes, I find myself in an expansive darkness / the color of dawn; I sense it on your fingertips. / Forget the lie that helped you live. / Bare your feet, bare your eyes— / very few things remain when we've bared ourselves / but in the end we can see them exactly as they are.
July 3, 2020
Weekly Writes Summer 2020 – Poetry or Prose
For the first time ever, Weekly Writes is offering both poetry AND prose, in two separate programs. What do you want to write this summer? Pick the program, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a weekly dose of writing inspiration in your inbox!
