By DAWN TEFFT
the window is freezing into a lake
and nothing on its surface has vertebrae
Winterhospital
March 5, 2014
Dispatches
Emma Crowe
Acting
February 26, 2014
Dispatches
The crowds are a loaded pincushion
that pricks me as I lean into
the human tide. The rotunda’s marble
Who Do You Write For?
February 20, 2014
News and Events
Event Date:
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
Center for Fiction, NYC
Have you ever read a novel and felt as though the author was speaking directly to you? Or about you? Guernica and The Common contributors come together to read from and discuss fiction they feel was written just for them and who their own work is addressed to, if anyone. Featuring Benjamin Anastas, Dina Nayeri, Kiese Laymon. Moderated by The Common Editor in Chief Jennifer Acker and Guernica Senior Fiction Editor Meakin Armstrong. Click here for more event information and panelist bios.
Find us at:
The Center for Fiction
17 E 47th St,
New York, NY
10017
2 Poems
February 19, 2014
Dispatches
Towards Algiers
The desert scatters
on our feet. It’s the only
surrender that counts,
vast, unobstructed.
Málaga
February 12, 2014
Dispatches, Translation
By JUAN ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ IGLESIAS
Translated by CURTIS BAUER
Todas y cada una de las cosas
del mundo tienen hoy exactitud
matinal. Esta dulce luz de Málaga
declara una vez más la equivalencia
entre la realidad y el paraíso.
Destinados al Olvido? (Destined for Oblivion?)
February 5, 2014
Dispatches, Translation
By JUAN ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ IGLESIA
Translated by CURTIS BAUER
Álvaro Mutis habla lentamente.
Una entrevista en un canal hispano.
Me interesa el desgaste de las cosas.
Mezzogiorno
January 29, 2014
Dispatches
There was a pile of old vines and twigs in the vineyard. We lit a bonfire and the flames licked daylight into the night sky. Next morning there was a gray and black patch of coldashes, perfectly round. It looked hard, like crushed marbles, so I stepped on it. My boot sank deep into tiny feathers. A gray boot and a brow none told me I should have known better.
The Common in the (Eternal) City
January 27, 2014
News and Events
Event Date:
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 – 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU
Join The Common for postcard readings, cocktails/ aperitivos, music, and dancing inspired by a night in Italy!
A Year in Dispatches Reading, AWP 2014, Seattle
January 25, 2014
News and Events
Event Date:
Thursday, February 27, 2014 – 5:30pm – 8:00pm
Location:
McMenamins Six Arms Pub
Join us for a reading (and for drinks!) celebrating work published in The Common‘s Dispatches column this past year; our featured writers will include Katherine Hill, Ira Sukrungruang, Margot Schlipp, Kurt Caswell, Brandi Katherine Herrera, Jeff Muse, and Hannah Gersen. These poems and essays take us coast to coast with their unique evocation of place.
Tour Guide
January 22, 2014
Dispatches
By NINA PURO
Details Concerning the Individual Denizens and Their Residences
In New Mexico, days end with soaking the frijoles for tomorrow. They start with a lump of bacon grease sizzling in a cast-iron pan, with chipping a chunk of green chilé from one of the blocks in the freezer. People like food that hurts them as they eat it. Even the cocoa has chilé in it and a Spanish name and must be beaten to a froth.
