The Common: Issue #10

by Jennifer Acker

Contents
“The Common Statement” by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
“Unwinding” by Nick Fuller Googins
“Biarritz” by Dwyer Murphy
“from The Folly” by Ivan Vladislavić
“Key Concepts in Ecology” by Michelle Ross
“The Bone Church” by Aaron Steven Miller
“On Grief” by Gbolahan Adeola

Essays
“Siena” by Katherine Dykstra
“Puppetmaking” by Aurelia Wills
“Driving to Malaga” by Todd Hearon
“He’s-at-Home” by Ben Shattuck

Art
“Millennium Camera” by Jonathon Keats
“The Story Behind the Scenes” by Morgan Adams
“Three Poems” by Mazen Kerbaj

Poetry
“In The Dirt” by Grant Kittrell
“In That City, In Those Circles” by Lawrence Joseph
“Warriors in Art” by Rob Welburn
“I Had Seven Handkerchiefs” by Sylvie Durbec (Translated by Denis Hirson)
“from Shining Red in the Torrent” by Sylvie Durbec (Translated by Denis Hirson)
“Civil Service” by Colin Channer
“Braintree” by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
“Postmark” by Didi Jackson
“In 1988” by David Lehman
“Volunteer” by David Lehman
“Legend” by John Freeman
“Reader/Writer” by Denise Duhamel
“Because of Global Warming,” by Luisa A. Igloria
“Crescent City” by Maurice Emerson Decaul
“Pizza with Light Bulb” by Zeina Hashem Beck
“The Battle for Leningrad Begins” by Jonathan Fink
“Imitation” by Jonathan Fink
“Tree of Life” by Bruce Bond

New Poems from China
Translated by Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
“You Might Have Been My Brother” by Tang Danhong
“1967” by Yang Jian
“Longing, a Lion” by Zheng Min
“Coins Tossed in All Directions” by Mo Fei

“The Eyewitness” by Yu Nu
“III. The USA” by Li Yongyi

Unknown Binding

Published October 1, 2015

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.