The Common
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The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"Multiplying outward at the stupid root of all of this / Decadence! O Walloon Swallow, fly, fly from that precipice."
For this month's poetry feature, Dylan Carpenter brings us to consider the absurdities of our time, with a voice mythological in tone. Read below!
For this month's poetry feature, Dylan Carpenter brings us to consider the absurdities of our time, with a voice mythological in tone. Read below!
November 2025 Poetry Feature: My Wallonia: Welcoming Dylan Carpenter
DYLAN CARPENTER <br> I have heard the symptoms play upon world’s corroded lyre, / Pictured my Wallonia and seen the waterfall afire.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Multiplying outward at the stupid root of all of this / Decadence! O Walloon Swallow, fly, fly from that precipice."
For this month's poetry feature, Dylan Carpenter brings us to consider the absurdities of our time, with a voice mythological in tone. Read below!
For this month's poetry feature, Dylan Carpenter brings us to consider the absurdities of our time, with a voice mythological in tone. Read below!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"Sometimes, we are relegated to pinholes. We attach one thing to another. We don’t get to breathe."
During a visit to an onsen town, Tola Sylvan meditates on wintering, perception, and femininity as armor and ornament. Check out her dispatch below!
During a visit to an onsen town, Tola Sylvan meditates on wintering, perception, and femininity as armor and ornament. Check out her dispatch below!
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TOLA SYLVAN <br> here is the outside of myself, my hardshell exterior, with its wily and yet decipherable messages
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"Sometimes, we are relegated to pinholes. We attach one thing to another. We don’t get to breathe."
During a visit to an onsen town, Tola Sylvan meditates on wintering, perception, and femininity as armor and ornament. Check out her dispatch below!
During a visit to an onsen town, Tola Sylvan meditates on wintering, perception, and femininity as armor and ornament. Check out her dispatch below!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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