Poetry

July 2014 Poetry Feature

July 23, 2014 Poetry

Upcoming print issues of The Common will feature poems by Will Schutt, Patrick Pritchett, and Kevin C. Stewart.

May 2014 Poetry Feature

May 23, 2014 Poetry

It’s time for our monthly poetry feature! Today, we are publishing eight new poems from The Common print contributors.

April 2014 Poetry Feature

April 23, 2014 Poetry

For this month’s poetry feature, we’re publishing five new poems from The Common print contributors.

Shook Music

April 1, 2014 Issue 07, Issue 07 Poetry, Poetry

By LESLIE MCGRATH

Follow me, Imagineers! We’ll make noise

from these dread instruments, shook music

loud as the hell we’ve climbed from, visible

only to the i in piano, the eye in the oboe.

In Praise of Prey

April 1, 2014 Issue 07, Issue 07 Poetry, Poetry

By LESLIE MCGRATH

The rhythm of predation is a sine wave.

Between predator and prey it winds

like a whip-crack in slow motion.

When an Old Classmate Learns I Am a Lesbian

April 1, 2014 Issue 07, Issue 07 Poetry, Poetry

By JULIE MARIE WADE

“Oh my God! I knew it! I always knew it. I was like Julie is so gay, & people were like oh, whatever, you just think everybody’s gay because it’s an all-girls school, but I knew I wasn’t gay, & I knew most of those girls weren’t gay, so I was like fuck you, Jasmine, go suck on one of your Jolly Rancher rings! Do you remember those?