Podcasts & Audio

Ode to the First Boy Who Made Me Feel It

October 29, 2018 Issue 16, Issue 16 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By DOROTHY CHAN

Oh, how I crave Bloody Marys at night, tomato and vodka,
kick of Tabasco, spices make everything in life a hell
of a lot better, or at least a hell of a lot more interesting,
and I think that’s what we’re aiming for, and maybe what
I really want is tomato soup, like Andy Warhol used to request

Red Light Roses

October 29, 2018 Issue 16, Issue 16 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By JILL MCDONOUGH

Josey picks me up at work in a car we bought
together, car she dug out of frozen slush for hours.
She picks me up and gives me roses. Valentine’s Day.

Breaking Night

October 16, 2018 Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By WILLIE PERDOMO

In that year of a shot to the head where were you the first time you broke night?

When you break night, you learn that one puff, under the right circumstance, can give you the right perspective.

You learn to pick up stories that fall & slip on the right side of knowing.

January’s Child

April 30, 2018 Issue 15, Issue 15 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By RANDOLPH THOMAS

When winter set in, they came
to see us with their baby,
a beautiful child about a year old
who was learning to walk
and stepped proudly
across our living room,
waved her fists and hands
and shook her straw colored hair.

Wetland

April 30, 2018 Issue 15, Issue 15 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry, Poetry Recordings

By MORIEL ROTHMAN-ZECHER

Darkness, my sibling,
I have a story to tell you

Last shabbes I was chased by the law into Bed
Stuy streets for passing out pamphlets
decrying America’s uncles.

Bobber

April 30, 2018 Issue 15, Issue 15 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry, Poetry Recordings

By RICHARD HOFFMAN

The two tall boys, brothers, both
with wire-rimmed glasses, with wicker
creels, fly-fishing gear, and vests
with patches of sheepskin shearling
dotted with troutflies, worked their way
downstream in their rubber waders.

Tesserae Poetry Feature: Part One

April 13, 2018 Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

The Common brings you a special two-part series as a preview to Tesserae: Poetry Of Community – A Reading & Celebration Of Immigrants & New Americans, coming up on Sunday, April 22 3:30–5pm at The Parlor Room in Northampton, MA; free admission.

Part One – featuring poems by Kirun Kapur, María Luisa Arroyo, and Ocean Vuong.

February 2018 Poetry Feature

February 23, 2018 Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

un/bodying/s

Poetry by TODD HEARON
Music by GREGORY W. BROWN

“I have made
an elegy for myself it
is true”

Geoffrey Hill, i.m., 1932 – 2016

1. The Meeting of the Waters

Sempiternal waters, sing-
ly sing, gush glottal-less & all
onomatopoetical your
triphthong’s liquid pluraling
through rock & ruck & rill

Contributors in Conversation: Antonio Monda and Ian Bassingthwaighte

December 10, 2017 Podcasts & Audio

In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 08 contributors Antonio Monda and Ian Bassingthwaighte read and discuss their stories “Am I Speaking to Hyman Roth?” and “Reichelt’s Parachute.”

Contributors in Conversation: Ishion Hutchinson and Jonathan Gerhardson

December 6, 2017 Podcasts & Audio

In this episode of The Common’s Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 08 contributors Ishion Hutchinson and Jonathan Gerhardson read and discuss their poems “Trouble on the Road Again,” “Vers de Société,” and “Shy Mother.”