The Common (Magazine)
Encyclopedia
The Common is a nonprofit biannual magazine based at Amherst College
in Amherst, Massachusetts. The magazine publishes stories, poems, essays, and images centered around "a modern sense of place."
Professors at the College, including William Pritchard and Pulitzer Prize
winner Richard Wilbur
, serve on the editorial board. The Common launched its first issue, 01, in April 2011.
, Fiona Maazel
, and Sabina Murray
, poems by Rafael Campo
, Don Share
, Honor Moore
, and Mary Jo Salter
. Its prototype issue included a piece by Jim Shepard. The magazine has also published the work of debut writers, poets, and photographers. The magazine's running sections, in print and on its website, are Dispatches (short missives evoking a particular place and edited by Hannah Gersen), Reviews, and Features. Poetry Editor John Hennessey, Associate Fiction Review Editor Elizabeth Byrne, and Editor Jennifer Acker oversee the content of The Common.
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
in Amherst, Massachusetts. The magazine publishes stories, poems, essays, and images centered around "a modern sense of place."
History
The Common's prototype issue, 00, appeared in October 2010. In early 2011, editor Jennifer Acker obtained an investment from Amherst College in a literary magazine focused on the motif of place in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual arts. The magazine is published by The Common Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. At the magazine's inception, Amherst College provided an on-campus office, a website, funding for start-up costs, and the budget for a staff of student interns. The College hosts The Common's offices in its Robert Frost Library.Professors at the College, including William Pritchard and Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winner Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....
, serve on the editorial board. The Common launched its first issue, 01, in April 2011.
Content and Editors
The Common has published new fiction by Lauren GroffLauren Groff
Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an MFA in fiction....
, Fiona Maazel
Fiona Maazel
Fiona Maazel is a writer and freelance editor. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times, Tin House, Bomb, Fence, The Mississippi Review, The Common, The Yale Review, Anthem, The Village Voice, N+1, and on salon.com.She is a 2008 National...
, and Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray is an award-winning Filipina American screenwriter, and a novelist currently a Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.-Background and career:...
, poems by Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo Pomar was President of El Salvador 12 February 1856 - 1 February 1858. Campo was elected president on 30 January 1856. He turned over power to his vice president, Francisco Dueñas, on 12 May of the same year, but resumed the presidency on 19 July...
, Don Share
Don Share
Don Share is an American poet. He is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee.-Career:Share was Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University from 2000 until 2007...
, Honor Moore
Honor Moore
Honor Moore is an American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays.She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; two works of nonfiction, The White Blackbird and The Bishop's Daughter; and the play Mourning Pictures, which was produced on Broadway and...
, and Mary Jo Salter
Mary Jo Salter
Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...
. Its prototype issue included a piece by Jim Shepard. The magazine has also published the work of debut writers, poets, and photographers. The magazine's running sections, in print and on its website, are Dispatches (short missives evoking a particular place and edited by Hannah Gersen), Reviews, and Features. Poetry Editor John Hennessey, Associate Fiction Review Editor Elizabeth Byrne, and Editor Jennifer Acker oversee the content of The Common.