The Common: Issue No. 18

by Jennifer Acker (Editor)

Stories set in a haunted museum and on a rooftop in wartorn Iraq, essays on recreating the past, Ama Codjoe’s DISQUIET Prize-winning poem “Burying Seeds,” and more poems by Gail Mazur, Colin Channer, Chloe Martinez, and R. Zamora Linmark.

207 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

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.

Reviews

[Bonisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Favorites:

- Three Walks, Ben Shattuck
- LDR, Bernard Ferguson
- All I Have Is What I Have Given Away, Susan R. Troccolo
- Eclipsed, Jessamyn Hope
- Daybreak, J.J. Starr

[Mia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed a few of the stories and essays. Most were just okay for me though.