The Common: Issue #4

Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to recapture an old idea. The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, and images that embody particular times and places both real and imagined; from deserts to teeming ports; from Winnipeg to Beijing; from Earth to the Moon: literature and art powerful enough to reach from there to here. In short, we seek a modern sense of place. Issue 04 was published in the Fall of 2012. Original Fiction by Jennifer Haigh, Robert Earle, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Sunetra Gupta Poetry by Kelwyn Sole, Robert Berold, Angifi Proctor Dladla, Ingrid de Kok, Ari Sitas, Yvette Christiansë, Karen Press, Makhosazana Xaba, Finuala Dowling, Kobus Moolman, Lesego Rampolokeng, Liesl Jobson, Rustum Kozain, Mxolisi Nyezwa, Gabeba Baderoon, Fiona Zerbst, Alan Finlay, Khulile Nxumalo, Malika Ndlovu, Vonani Bila, Haidee Kruger, Nadine Botha, Katharine Kilalea, and Genna Gardini Essays by Robbert Bagg and Nicola Waldron Images and Artwork by Amy Sande-Friedman, Bartow + Metzgar, and Peter Matthews