The Common: Issue #13

by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
“Guy Gever Stands in the Field” by Bethany Ball
“Fallow” by Laura Winther Galaviz
“The Eunuch, the Colombian, & the King” by Menachem Kaiser
“Firsthand Account” by Bruna Dantas Lobato
“Dancing in 4/4 Time” by Max Ross
“Living in the Past” by Sinan Antoon (translated by Maia Tabet)

Essays
“Blood and Every Beat” by Mensah Demary
“Meandering Zone” by Rachel Pastan
“The Radical Familiar: Matisse’s Early Nice Interiors” by Arden Hendrie
“Fraternity” by Zak Breckenridge

Poetry
“We’ll Always Have Parents” by Mary Jo Salter
“The Hotel Belvedere” by Mary Jo Salter
“Motel” by Zack Strait
“Lesson for Cortney” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
“Still Life with Black Boy’s Face Overlaying Project Buildings” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
“The Beauty of Boys Is” by Vievee Francis
“On Leaving the Mountains and Coming to the City I Thought I Left for Good” by Vievee Francis
“Good Boys” by Megan Fernandes
“Twenty Minutes at the Clam Shack” by Cassie Pruyn
“Two Poems in the Courtly Manner” by David Lehman
“Embraceable” by Juan Carlos Marset (translated by Ilan Stavans)
“Obituary” by Robert Cording
“Dead-of-Night Blossoms” by R. Zamora Linmark
“It’s a Nasty Habit and I’m Trying to Quit” by Holly Burdorff
“At Newgrange: The Best Self Is a Tough Sell” by Elizabeth Scanlon
“The Italian Lesson” by Honor Moore
“Passeggiata in Linguaglossa” by Judith Baumel
“On Ice” by Nathaniel Perry
“What’s Goin’ On?” by Jonathan Moody
“On Being Thirty-Six” by Jonathan Moody
“Philoctetes at the Physio” by U. S. Dhuga
“Daedalus in Oxyana” by William Brewer
“Before Vaudeville was the Next Big Thing” by Marc Vincenz

Art
“Under Current: Tidal Pull” by Amanda Valdez

189 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2017

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.