Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winner, former Poet Laureate, and Editorial Board member for The Common, celebrated his 90th birthday on March 1. Here are photos from his birthday celebration at Amherst College.
A Beautiful Birthday Cake
Richard Wilbur Reads
Irina Troconis, Catherine Ciepiela and Max Kaisler
Photos by: Eric Crawford.
NEW AND EVENTS
We are pleased to announce that The Common is among the 99 literary nonprofit organizations to be presented with a 2025 Literary Magazine Fund Grant by the Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund, in conjunction with the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses.
NEWS AND EVENTS
The Common has announced Kei Lim ’25 as the 2025-26 Literary Editorial Fellow, marking the sixth year of the fellowship at Amherst College’s award-winning, open-access literary journal.
NEWS AND EVENTS
Award-winning, international literary journal The Common announced today that Aidan Cooper '26 will be the third recipient of the David Applefield ’78 Fellowship.
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