“My Sentimental Afternoon” by Leila Chatti is a stirring poem that prompts deep consideration. Read the Issue 27 poem now:

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Celebrate the wisdom of old age with Trey Moody's (Trey Moody) poem 'Call and Response,' recently published in Issue 27.

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Are you looking for some new spring reading? Good news!

Michelle Lewis, Kevin Dean, and Matthew Lippman, contributors to our newest issue—Issue 27—recommend the novels, poetry, and essay collections that have been getting through the season!

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Woot woot! Excited that my story has been published by The Common today

Translated by Jay Boss Rubin #SokoLaSamaki #TheFishMarket 💃🎉

'How at first, at birth, there is nothing, really, almost nothing, and how slowly it develops after that, all the years when there is no visible shadow on the ground behind us.'

Read Sven Birkerts' Issue 27 essay: thecommononline.org/thirty-seven-t…

Don't miss Cortney Lamar Charleston's Issue 27 poem, which reflects on Ida B. Wells' defiance of the hatred that gripped Memphis at the time of the People's Grocery lynchings

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“The smell of fish at the ferry landing is so different than how they smell at home, stored away in the freezer.”

Read Jay Boss Rubin's translation of Esther Karin Mngodo's 'The Fish Market,' from the Swahili.

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Excerpt from James Richardson's Issue 27 poem, 'Around Sunset.'

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'Sixteen years married, I had not expected anything like this coffeehouse encounter...'

David Meischen's Issue 27 essay 'I Am, I Said' is a rawly honest and touching reflection on the messiness of coming out mid-life. Read online now:
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Check out the beautiful art by Michael Adonai that we have in our newly published Issue 27.

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'I’m always on the verge of arriving home.'

Charisse Baldoria remembers her earliest years as a pianist and the art of suspending desire in a new dispatch from Manila.

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Keep an eye out for 'Rabbit' in Issue 27th's release! Jade Song writes about a romance between two different boys, primarily within a school setting.

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Don't know where to start with reading Issue 27?

Check out R. Zamora Linmark’s selections of Hawai’i Creole English poetry!

The three poems are excerpted from EH, NO TALK LI'DAT, a forthcoming anthology centered on the Pidgin language.

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Don't miss our latest podcast release! Amanda Mei Kim speaks on “California Obscura,' examining the long history of farmworker resistance and labor movements in the area, which crossed divides of race, ethnicity, and origin.

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Teachers, share The Common Young Writers Program with your creative writing students! We are still open to applications for this summer.

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“Symphony of the South” by Tahir Annour, translated by Mayada Ibrahim is featured in our new Issue 27 portfolio of Arabic Stories from Chad, South Sudan, & Eritrea. Read the piece and others in the portfolio now:

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Jesus descends from the heavens to visit a rural town in Georgia in Issue 26 poem 'Aubade, Carrington Woods' by Kerry James Evans.

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Find Sarabande Books, Restless Books, Terrain.org, Full Stop, Kenyon Review, WordsWithoutBorders, The Common & more publishers in this year’s #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

'in the coachella valley / movement does not equal mobility'

Heartfelt Issue 26 poem 're(education)' by Lizbeth Luevano explores the poet's experiences in Coachella Valley, where 'land and labor exploitation are irrevocably intertwined'.

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Gabriela Ybarra Lemmons's Issue 26 poem 'Retoño,' featured in our farmworker portfolio, captures the fierce beauty of harvest season.

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