The Common: A Modern Sense of Place: Issue 02

The Common is published in print biannually from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Ours is a small community with far-reaching ideas. We’re a place of farmers, professors, immigrants, liberals, conservatives, dairy cows, tobacco plants, strip malls, and Victorian and Brutalist architecture. We have a rich literary history and support a vibrant diversity of artists and authors. The Common fosters regional creative spirit while stitching together a national and international community through publishing literature and art from around the world, bringing readers into a common space.


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.