Join the staff and interns of The Common for our launch of Issue 14! Come to hear readings from our new issue and enjoy wine and cheese in the Mead Art Museum’s beautiful Rotherwas Room.
Free and open to the public – students, parents, and local lit lovers all welcome!
Amherst College
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THERESE GLEASON
Half of Emily’s autumnal garden is sunlit at midmorning, but the little apple and pear trees in the orchard down the hill are shrouded in shadow, and I think of my face as equinox: how I woke last April to thorny vines in my neck coiling up my ear canal, with a numb tongue and drooping left lip and eye
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NEWS AND EVENTS
The Common has announced Ben Tamburri ’27 as the 2026-27 David Applefield '78 Fellow, marking the fourth year of the fellowship at Amherst College’s award-winning, open-access literary journal.
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