The Common: Issue #2

The Common #2

by Jennifer Acker (Editor)

Issue 02 was published in the of Fall 2011.

Featuring fiction by Martha Cooley, Katia Kapovich, Jessie Marshall, and Susan Stinson.

Poetry by Marie Gauthier, Jennifer Habel, Hollie Hardy, Stephen Haven, Elizabeth Hazen, Major Jackson, Cralan Kelder, Susan Kinsolving, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Rosanna Oh, Nathaniel Perry, Jacquelyn Pope, Corinna McClanahan Schroeder, Tom Sleigh, Daniel Tobin, Cody Walker, and Timothy Watt.

Essays by J. Malcolm Garcia, Phillip Lopate, and Sarah Luria and Daniel Jackson.

Collaborative work with prints by Teresa Villegas and bilingual folktales by Ilan Stavans.

The octagonal houses of Orson Squire Fowler, curated by Michael Kelly.

Translations of Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Hester Knibbe, and Juan Rulfo.

And a look at the drawings of Ingres with Esther Bell.

216 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2011

About the author

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.