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Jennifer Acker

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Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, The Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and organizes LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband. The Limits of the World is her debut novel.

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November 2025 Poetry Feature: My Wallonia: Welcoming Dylan Carpenter

DYLAN CARPENTER
I have heard the symptoms play upon world’s corroded lyre, / Pictured my Wallonia and seen the waterfall afire. // I have seen us pitifully surrender, one by one, the Wish, / Frowning at a technocrat who stammers—Hör auf, ich warne dich! // Footless footmen, goatless goatherds, songless sirens, to the last, Privately remark—
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“A downpouring of immense darkness began . . . There was scarcely anything left of body or mind by which one could say, “This is he” or “This is she.” —Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse”
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“When a relationship deepend, it feels like the melting of a stream. Wider, more fluid, sounding of happy birbles. Our life together has an openness and receptivity absent from the middle years. We laugh more readily at our foibles; we don't hesitate to ask each other for help.”
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“Convalescence is learning to become kin not only with uncertainty but also with boredom, the frustration of non-doing”
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