The Common: Issue #6

The Common #6

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 06 Published in the Fall of 2013.

Original Fiction by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Megan Staffel, Jamie Edgecombe, Tyler Sage, Helen Hooper, and Hisham Bustani

Poetry by Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, Maria Stepanova, Ron Welburn, Maria Terrone, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Paula Bohinck, Jeffrey Harrison, Oliver de la Paz, Brendan Galvin, Denise Duhamel, L.S. Klatt, Peter Filkins, Joshua Mehigan, Andrea Scott, David Gavin, and William Wenthe

Essays by Benjamin Anastas, Rowan Moore Gerety, Eleanor Stanford, Leigh Newman

Images and Artwork by Luis Callejas with an introduction by Scott Geiger and Esther Bell

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2013

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.