The Common: Issue #9

by Jennifer Acker

Contents
“The Common Statement” by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
“Between the Lines” by Sujata Shekar
“God’s Fingernail” by Masha Hamilton
“Leaving Walter” by Lori Ostlund
“Protection” by Paola Peroni
“The Electric City” by Kashana Cauley
“The King of Bubbles” by Edie Meidav
“Detail from Post Blue Six” by Carolyn Kuebler

Bombay/Mumbai: India from Inside and Out
Essays & Recipes

“The Kindness of Strangers” by Nonita Kalra
“Papad” by Suketu Mehta
“Where Does the Time Go?” by Amit Chaudhuri
“Jesse Owens, Mr. Harris, and Me” by Nina McConigley
“Mom’s Dal” by Nirmala Swamidoss McConigley
“Pomfret Chutney Masala” by Bijoya Chaudhuri
"Bhel Puri” by Jehangir Mehta

Art
“The Sense in Turning Away” by Teju Cole
“The Dictator’s Bedroom” by Ileana Selejan

Poetics (Fragments/Fragmentos)

“What Always Pulls At Me” by Luis Muñoz (Translated by Curtis Bauer)
“Poetry Never Stops Defining and Redefining Its Terrain” by Luis Muñoz (Translated by Curtis Bauer)

Poetry
“The First Last Light in the Sky” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
“The Ice Hotel” by Richard Michelson
“Some Proof of Love” by Jacquelyn Pope
“Bone Almanac” by Jacquelyn Pope
“From Eidolon” by Sandeep Parmar
“Midnight, and people I love are dying,” by Robin Chapman
“Storm” by Will Schutt
“Tiny Sun” by Margot Douaihy
“On Being A Vine” by Rae Paris
“Basta” by Sara London
“The Post-Graduates” by Peter Jay Shippy
“Postcolonial Chicken” by John Matthias
“Two Flat Tires” by Kevin C. Stewart
“‘I Went Sick as a Child...’” by Arseny Tarkovsky (Translated by Valzhyna Mort)
“Yelabuga” by Valzhyna Mort
“Lottery Ticket and Fuck All” by Michael Catherwood
“Hellgrammite Cloud” by Gary Metras
“Dante Or, The End of Poetry” by Patrick Pritchett

202 pages, Paperback

Published April 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.