Please join us in greeting new contributors Jane Huffman and Jeff Hipsher.
May 2016 Poetry Feature
May 27, 2016
Poetry
Poetry
April 2016 Poetry Feature
April 22, 2016
Poetry
This month we welcome new contributors Sria Chatterjee, Marc Vincenz, and Laurie Rosenblatt, and we’re happy to publish new work by Ned Balbo once more.
March 2016 Poetry Feature
March 17, 2016
Poetry
Cliff Forshaw transposes Dante’s Inferno to Hull, England.
February 2016 Poetry Feature
February 21, 2016
Poetry
Please join us in greeting new contributors Dolores Hayden and Zack Strait—and a big welcome back to Robin Chapman and Alex Cigale.
January 2016 Poetry Feature
January 29, 2016
Podcasts & Audio, Poetry
New Work for the New Year
This month we welcome Cassandra Cleghorn to our pages, presenting poems included in her first book, Four Weathercocks, which will be published by Marick Press in March. We’re also happy to be welcoming back TC contributors David Lehman, Jonathan Moody, and Sylvie Durbec. Lehman’s new book is Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World. Jonathan Moody won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Prize for his collection Olympic Butter Gold, published in November 2015. The book includes five poems first published in The Common. Jean Follain Prize-winner Sylvie Durbec’s poem “Shining Red in the Torrent” is offered here in its entirety, translated by Denis Hirson. An excerpt from the poem was published in The Common Issue 10.
December 2015 Poetry Feature
December 11, 2015
Poetry, Translation
We are pleased to present the second installment of our two-part feature on New Poetry from China, translated by Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi. Click on the titles below to view bilingual editions of new poetry by Yang Jian, Mo Fei, and Li Yongyi.
November 2015 Poetry Feature
November 20, 2015
Poetry, Translation
We are pleased to present the first installment of our two-part feature on New Poetry from China, translated by Stephen Haven and Li Yongyi. Click on the titles below to view bilingual editions of new poetry by Tang Danhong, Zheng Min, and Yu Nu.
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November 1, 2015
Issue 10, Issue 10 Poetry, Poetry
By DIDI JACKSON
There are days
I go to the mailbox
and find letters
from my dead husband
translating for me his suicide:
the cold blade softened into cursive,
his fear licked onto the stamp,
as the return address: the date of his death.
Braintree
November 1, 2015
Issue 10, Issue 10 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry
| All of this was farmland once. When they came to build the incinerator, my father dressed like a masked outlaw. His friends carried six-foot pencils. |
Civil Service
November 1, 2015
Issue 10, Issue 10 Poetry, Poetry
By COLIN CHANNER
A man-boy of nearly twenty,
slave-dressing in pantaloons
in 1930, slowly reads a Gleaner
from behind a stocky “German”
woman in a fabric shop.
Finds himself in love.
