The Common: A Modern Sense of Place: Issue 02

Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to recapture an old idea. The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, and images that embody particular times and places both real and imagined; from deserts to teeming ports; from Winnipeg to Beijing; from Earth to the Moon: literature and art powerful enough to reach from there to here. In short, we seek a modern sense of place.

Issue 02

October 25th, 2011

Featuring fiction by Martha Cooley, Katia Kapovich, Jessie Marshall, and Susan Stinson.

Poetry by Marie Gauthier, Jennifer Habel, Hollie Hardy, Stephen Haven, Elizabeth Hazen, Major Jackson, Cralan Kelder, Susan Kinsolving, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Rosanna Oh, Nathaniel Perry, Jacquelyn Pope, Corinna McClanahan Schroeder, Tom Sleigh, Daniel Tobin, Cody Walker, and Timothy Watt.

Essays by J. Malcolm Garcia, Phillip Lopate, and Sarah Luria and Daniel Jackson.

Collaborative work with prints by Teresa Villegas and bilingual folktales by Ilan Stavans.

The octagonal houses of Orson Squire Fowler, curated by Michael Kelly.

Translations of Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Hester Knibbe, and Juan Rulfo.

And a look at the drawings of Ingres with Esther Bell.