"the common"′s partnership with amherst college extends beyond the administration. the english department, creative writing center, and student-run prose and poetry magazine "circus" have all collaborated with "the common" in the past for events, public readings, book fairs, and writing workshops. additionally, some professors at the college, including william pritchard and pulitzer prize winner richard wilbur, have served on the editorial board. since the magazine's founding, jennifer acker has periodically worked as a professor at the college, teaching some "the common"′s pieces, among others. with this support, "the common" launched its first issue, 01, in april 2011. the magazine has published seventeen issues to date, with an eighteenth expected in october, 2019.