Cliff Forshaw transposes Dante’s Inferno to Hull, England.
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August 2015 Poetry Feature
This month we are welcoming newcomer Maurice Emerson Decaul (whose work will also appear in Issue 10 this fall) and welcoming back Tess Taylor, Luisa A. Igloria, Cliff Forshaw, and Valerie Duff.
May 2015
Please enjoy five new poems by our contributors.
September 2014 Poetry Feature
Please enjoy these new poems by five new contributors to The Common.
March 2014 Poetry Feature
Celebrate the advent of spring with new poems by seven of our spectacular contributors.
March 2013 Poetry Feature
This month’s poetry feature showcases work from new books by our contributors.
From Vandemonian
Tasmania: fragments from a story
THE MAN
The Governor built his prisons,
but he built his chapels, too.
Now the Lamb of God beams down
in light that’s brightly stained,
right foreleg implausibly curled
around a regimental flag.
Angkor
All day those stones have writhed with myth,
roots have snaked necks, have had the cheek
to prod gods and kings, crack armies, cities, ships;
mocked Shiva, made him sprout arthritic wrists.