The Common: Issue #12

by Jennifer Acker

New fiction by Emily Chammah, Elvis Bego, Sean Bernard, Vladislava Kolosova, Elizabeth Poliner, Joseph Kertes, and Clare Beams.

Poetry by Erica Dawson, Max Freeman, Dolores Hayden, Valerie Duff, Denise Duhamel, Julie Marie Wade, Ishion Hutchinson, Wyatt Townley, Peter Schmitt, Timothy Liu, J. D. McClatchy, Karen Chase, Robert Bagg, and Kevin O'Connor.

New poetry translations from Serhiy Zhadan (translated by Ostap Kin) and Humberto Ak'abal (translated by Loren Goodman).

Essays by Anna Badkhen, Ralph Sneeden, W. Ralph Eubanks, and Susan Straight.

Collage by Akwe Amosu.

Art by Rico Gatson.

219 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2016

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.