The Common: A Modern Sense of Place: Issue 03

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 03

April 6th, 2012

Featuring fiction by Stephen O’Connor, Robin McLean, Gabriel Brownstein, and Katherine Hill;

Poetry by Ishion Hutchinson, Angela Veronica Wong, Amy Lawless, Miguel-Angel Zapata (translated by Loren Goodman and Anthony Seidman), Cynthia Hogue, Karen Chase, Avram Kline, Norman Lock, Tess Taylor, Curtis Bauer, Jane Satterfield, Jock Doubleday, Manohar Shetty, Peter Jay Shippy, Emma Gorenberg, Susan Briante, Michael Joyce, Ben Mazer, Victoria Redel, Denis Hirson, Brad Leithauser, Seth Perlow, and Rachel Hadas;

Essays by Bret Anthony Johnston, Rolf Potts, and Patrick Stine; and

A collection of 18th-century maps curated by Michael Kelly.