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Common Place Poetics is delighted to propose a reading featuring poets who have contributed to our intimate journal. Common Place is a seasonal publication of poetry and poetics, co-edited by Samira Abed, Scout Turkel, and Hannah Piette. Founded in 2024, we have published five “seasons” of poetry and poetic prose: https://commonplacepoetics.com. This coming spring, we will celebrate two years of Common Place. Our journal asks, how is poetry a method for living, and how is living a method for poetry? We maintain that poetry turns both toward and against everyday life for its materials. Common Place gathers writing which engages this dialectical condition.
Our participating writers will read from poems that speak to these questions. Of special importance to our journal is “conversation." Poetry allows and necessitates lively correspondence. The poets who have so far contributed to Common Place have entered into conversation with one another through their writing — this reading and gathering will concretize that exchange.
