The Common: Issue 10

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 pieces of literature 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.

Contents
"The Common Statement" by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
"Unwinding" by Nick Fuller Googins
"Biarritz" by Dwyer Murphy
"from The Folly" by Ivan Vladislavic
"Key Concepts in Ecology" by Michelle Ross
"The Bone Church" by Aaron Steven Miller
"On Grief" by Gbolahan Adeola

Essays
"Siena" by Katherine Dykstra
"Puppetmaking" by Aurelia Wills
"Driving to Malaga" by Todd Hearon
"He's-at-Home" by Ben Shattuck

Art
"Millennium Camera" by Jonathon Keats
"The Story Behind the Scenes" by Morgan Adams
"Three Poems" by Mazen Kerbaj

Poetry
"In The Dirt" by Grant Kittrell
"In That City, In Those Circles" by Lawrence Joseph
"Warriors in Art" by Rob Welburn
"I Had Seven Handkerchiefs" by Sylvie Durbec (Translated by Denis Hirson)
"from Shining Red in the Torrent" by Sylvie Durbec (Translated by Denis Hirson)
"Civil Service" by Colin Channer
"Braintree" by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
"Postmark" by Didi Jackson
"In 1988" by David Lehman
"Volunteer" by David Lehman
"Legend" by John Freeman
"Reader/Writer" by Denise Duhamel
"Because of Global Warming," by Luisa A. Igloria
"Crescent City" by Maurice Emerson Decaul
"Pizza with Light Bulb" by Zeina Hashem Beck
"The Battle for Leningrad Begins" by Jonathan Fink
"Imitation" by Jonathan Fink
"Tree of Life" by Bruce Bond

New Poems from China?Translated by Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi
"You Might Have Been My Brother" by Tang Danhong
"1967" by Yang Jian
"Longing, a Lion" by Zheng Min
"Coins Tossed in All Directions" by Mo Fei
"The Eyewitness" by Yu Nu
"III. The USA" by Li Yongyi