The Common

"Silent, you walked next to me. / And I was there to comfort you"

Rhyming across different times, Peter Campion's new Issue 31 poem "Both Sides of Winter" looks at sickness and recovery through each other's twin language-rhythms. Read the full piece below:

Both Sides of Winter PETER CAMPION Silent, you walked next to me. / And I was there to comfort you, / but doing what you had to do / and walking on, you seemed to find / new confidence I want to call / grown up,…

Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. has launched his debut novel, Man, Rubber and the Devil. Set on Liberia's rubber plantations, the novel explores labor, faith, family, exploitation, and resilience through the lives of ordinary workers whose stories are rarely told.

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