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Some Do

November 5, 2017 Issue 14, Issue 14 Poetry, Issues, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By MATT SALYER

Check me on fleek like the night
kitchen mothers, pucker and hum some; come,
I like to liquor louche; let’s watch the flock
of spring-heeled bound as borough cabs
exhaust their carbon phantoms like a gauche
of fuck. Do you unzoo, unrouge
to rat as white, what roughshod? Do.
I want the carnal as straight metacognition,

March 2017 Poetry Feature

April 20, 2017 Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

At The Common we’re welcoming spring with new poetry by our contributors. (Be sure to listen to the audio link to Megan Fernandes’ “White People Always Want to Tell Me…,” read by the author.)

Motel

April 20, 2017 Issue 13, Issue 13 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By ZACK STRAIT

There is a dark blue bible in the nightstand, a pitcher and torch

stamped on the cover in gold. I rub this symbol

with my thumb and I am comforted, knowing another

man was in this room before me, just to

place his light here.

Pegasus

November 1, 2016 Issue 12, Issue 12 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By VALERIE DUFF

Iron mallet, shield of glass. Our
genesis a crucible of gas
and condensation shot straight through the aorta

Wythe County in July

November 1, 2016 Issue 12, Issue 12 Poetry, Poetry

By DOLORES HAYDEN

Stare…

—Walker Evans’ advice to young artists

So here’s a board-and-batten house—
a wall of planks with ragged ends
behind the windows’ splitting sills—

January 2016 Poetry Feature

January 29, 2016 Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

New Work for the New Year

This month we welcome Cassandra Cleghorn to our pages, presenting poems included in her first book, Four Weathercocks, which will be published by Marick Press in March. We’re also happy to be welcoming back TC contributors David Lehman, Jonathan Moody, and Sylvie Durbec. Lehman’s new book is Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World. Jonathan Moody won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Prize for his collection Olympic Butter Gold, published in November 2015. The book includes five poems first published in The Common. Jean Follain Prize-winner Sylvie Durbec’s poem “Shining Red in the Torrent” is offered here in its entirety, translated by Denis Hirson. An excerpt from the poem was published in The Common Issue 10.

Braintree

November 1, 2015 Issue 10, Issue 10 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By JEN JABAILY-BLACKBURN

All of this was farmland once. When they came to build the incinerator, my father dressed like a masked outlaw. His friends carried six-foot pencils.

In the Dirt

November 1, 2015 Issue 10, Issue 10 Poetry, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By GRANT KITTRELL

I took a drive out to The Gallimaufry Goat Farm and was
struck by the vast assortment of goat life in one place.
Goats who’d go shock-still when startled, like a bolt
through the head, fall stiff as taxidermy to the ground.

Tree of Life

November 1, 2015 Issue 10, Issue 10 Poetry, Issues, Podcasts & Audio, Poetry

By BRUCE BOND

After Terrence Malick

When the dinosaur, at the dawn of mercy,
lifts his hoof from the throat of his rival
whose pulse you see, whose eye tells you seas
have parted into the ken of separate selves—

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.

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Some Do

March 2017 Poetry Feature

Motel

Pegasus

Wythe County in July

January 2016 Poetry Feature

Braintree

In the Dirt

Tree of Life

Bone Almanac

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