The Common: Issue #3

The Common #3

by Jennifer Acker (Editor)

Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to recapture an old idea. The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, and images that embody particular times and places both real and imagined; from deserts to teeming ports; from Winnipeg to Beijing; from Earth to the Moon: literature and art powerful enough to reach from there to here. In short, we seek a modern sense of place.

Issue 03 was published in the Spring of 2012.

Featuring fiction by Stephen O’Connor, Robin McLean, Gabriel Brownstein, and Katherine Hill;

Poetry by Ishion Hutchinson, Angela Veronica Wong, Amy Lawless, Miguel-Angel Zapata (translated by Loren Goodman and Anthony Seidman), Cynthia Hogue, Karen Chase, Avram Kline, Norman Lock, Tess Taylor, Curtis Bauer, Jane Satterfield, Jock Doubleday, Manohar Shetty, Peter Jay Shippy, Emma Gorenberg, Susan Briante, Michael Joyce, Ben Mazer, Victoria Redel, Denis Hirson, Brad Leithauser, Seth Perlow, and Rachel Hadas;

Essays by Bret Anthony Johnston, Rolf Potts, and Patrick Stine; and

A collection of 18th-century maps curated by Michael Kelly.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2012

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.