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Friday Reads: April 2015

April 3, 2015 Reviews

By JULIA LICHTBLAU, CYNTHIA HOGUE, KELLY FORDON, ILAN STAVANS, HELEN HOOPER, OLIVIA WOLFGANG-SMITH

This month’s books are full of surprises, for their characters and their readers. Whether it’s a world of whimsy, fantasy, or magic(al realism), or else a microcosm of grief either private (a family home) or public (a busy airport), we’re along for the ride as imagined worlds both playful and harrowing rise and fall on these pages.

Recommended:

Play for Me by Céline Keating, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog by Alicia Ostriker, Munich Airport by Greg Baxter, Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Cold Song by Linn Ullmann

Amherst College (2015)

April 3, 2015 News and Events

Amherst College covers The Common‘s recent NEA literature grant, highlighting The Common in the Classroom.

INDIA New England (2015)

April 3, 2015 News and Events

India New England features The Common in the City 2015.

MassLive (2015)

April 3, 2015 News and Events

MassLive announces that Amherst College will match the NEA’s $10,000 grant to The Common to increase the magazine’s reach to students in 2015.

NEA Grant (2015)

April 3, 2015 News and Events

NEA Grant 2015: In its first year of eligibility, The Common has been awarded a 2014 Artworks Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA funds will help to bring The Common‘s place-based literature into classrooms around the country, to develop and promote its online presence, and to grow its readership. Starting in 2015, The Common will work vigorously to reach more students, of all ages, across the humanities and interdisciplinary fields such as architecture. The Common will also develop and promote its free, multimedia online content to a wider global readership.

The Amherst Bulletin (2015)

April 3, 2015 News and Events

The Amherst Bulletin covers the NEA’s recent $10,000 grant to The Common, highlighting the magazine’s increasing presence in the classroom.

Bone Almanac

April 1, 2015 Issue 09, Issue 09 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By JACQUELYN POPE

That black telephone would ring and ring,
fixed to its wall. It was a ring that roamed
the mind, while night drummed down
its list of last and lost events, circadian
paths that tangled where they tried to pass,
crossed and uncrossed hours.

Some Proof of Love

April 1, 2015 Issue 09, Issue 09 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By JACQUELYN POPE

Dear little day later,

Can’t you keep up?
There is no going back
so don’t insist. The view’s bound
by the block, fenced for now
but then will come
and new alarms
will set off and stop.

The Ice Hotel

April 1, 2015 Issue 09, Issue 09 Poetry, Poetry

By RICHARD MICHELSON

I love you, I say, after the quarrel but before
falling asleep. And within that small victory
I can feel my chest muscles tightening,
as my breath rises before me like a cartoon cloud
awaiting the articulation of the storm.

The First Last Light in the Sky

April 1, 2015 Issue 09, Issue 09 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS

That on the silent horizon, something
Not a sunrise rose, half itself and half
The horizon, dragging its bulk, its lights
And salts, from under shifting sheets of sea,
Leveling the sky into shallow moats
Of sounds, flecks of birds, beginning again
To believe all brief and sideways dreaming