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2 Mar 2025
"When he returned to the surface, his ears popped, and he swore he could hear the sky."
A heartbreaking story about the assemblage of relationships we have with nature and each other, Shane Castle's "Ponderosa" is not to be missed. Check it out below!
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23 Feb 2025
"It was beetles, pine-bark beetles—thousands, maybe millions, gnawing their way through the brittle red bark of his trees. No, he said as if to someone."
In Shane Castle's "Ponderosa," the trees are everything — and they're in danger. Read below!
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22 Feb 2025
Issue 28 poem "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Matthew Tuckner (@tuckner_matthew) contrasts a romantic memory with the stark, industrial imagery of a superfund site.
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16 Feb 2025
Zoraida Burgos’s latest poems in Issue 28 span the ecology of relationships and language. Translated by Peter Bush, these pieces are live on The Common.
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10 Feb 2025
I have read @commonmag since its very first issue, so it's especially sweet to see my conversation with @jarsofshine and @gustav_parker in these pages. Such fun discussing their poetry and experiences in the U.S. and Ireland: thecommononline.org/home-and…
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9 Feb 2025
"We thought our need was for the wild summer blackberries. But we were foraging for another memory to sustain us through the evil days to come."
Read @zackstrait's Issue 28 poem "Roadside Blackberries," a beautiful piece with an ominous undertone.
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2 Feb 2025
"How wonderful, how the earth offers such goodness to us without cost. And how awful."
Read more from @zackstrait's Issue 28 poem "Roadside Blackberries."
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1 Feb 2025
"There are no paths on the asphalt. Only / a longing for wings."
Dive into Maria Josep Escrivà's (@MjEscriva) luscious poetry in our Issue 28 selection of her work.
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31 Jan 2025
What do you do when you don't want to cook dinner but you still "Gotta Eat"?
Discover the cookbook that gives you some answers—and two other bite-sized book recs—in the January "What We're Reading" column!
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28 Jan 2025
@commonmag weighs in on Proper Imposters and G v P, which is out today: "Each author manages, at various times, to pierce through narrative’s typical strictures into the world of dreams, where fantastical images diagnose with overwhelming clarity the ills of our time."
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28 Jan 2025
"Danger, as in strangers, men or women; / as in twisters at night when you couldn’t / see them coming"
Don't miss Angie Macri's forceful and resounding Issue 28 poem "Dominus."
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26 Jan 2025
"If you’ve never starved, the story will never seem plausible, even as fiction."
Tina Vallès' timeless story "Forever Red," published in Issue 28's Catalan Portfolio, finds at the intersection of one family's poverty, grief, and memory an apple tree.
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25 Jan 2025
Enjoy Maria Josep Escrivà's (@MjEscriva) contemplations on temporality and nature in our Issue 28 sample of her poetry.
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24 Jan 2025
Don't know where to start with your 2025 reading goals?
Check out "What We're Reading" in the January edition of the column for three bite-sized book recs from @AdrienneSu , Afton Montgomery, and Hema Padhu!
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23 Jan 2025
Need help with accountability? Look no further! TC's Weekly Writes program is here to help you. The program costs just $25 for 10 weeks (that’s only $2.50 per week!). This fee includes one free submission to TC via Submittable after program completion.
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23 Jan 2025
Get a glimpse into THE OLD CURRENT, Brad Leithauser's first new poetry collection in over a decade, with this sample of three poems in our January poetry feature.
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22 Jan 2025
Weekly Writes Vol. 9 kicks off on January 27, just in time to help you stay accountable for your New Year’s resolutions and 2025 goals! Sign-ups close up this Sunday.
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"From beyond the waves, looking back at the shore, civilization betrays itself."
Explore the mysteries of a fiery mountainside in @ChristyTending 's lyrical new Dispatch from Japan.
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