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The new issue of “The Common” is here — and uncommonly good
Dear Readers, It's a rainy spring day here in Western Massachusetts, the kind that seems to portend flowers, growth, and green. A perfect day to launch our spring issue, #29! We excited to…
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Self-Doubt with poems by Diane Raptosh, David Tucker, and Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]
My book, Son of a Bird, a Memoir in Prose Poems, was just released from Etruscan Press. I am very excited. I am also enormously grateful to Etruscan Press, which is one of my…
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“Zaftig” [by David Lehman]
The Lehrhaus Zaftig by David Lehman - June 26, 2024 The word means fleshy in a sensual, feminine way,though sometimes it just means extra large.It’s a word you may not know if you’renot from New…
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Donald Platt: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________ Poem Written in Winter after Midnight at a Gas Station in Poe, Ohio Death has always been here in the blind spot of my driver’s side wing mirror…
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Allan Bloom on Higher Ed. Today
I asked President Cuckold about antisemitic campus violence last year, and what did he do? He shrugged. Were any of the victims covered by LGBTQ+ proteection? Did they wear skullcaps? Masks? Well, he hadn't…
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May [poem by Tom Disch]
May Such beauty, you sayLet us stop & admireA moment, a dayThe fields & the fire God the great spiderHas caught you again — by Tom Disch
