{{Short description|US magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = The Commonline Journal | image_file = The Commonline Journal.png | image_size = | image_caption = Journal Cover Art | editor = Pikthall | previous_editor = Dennis Paul Wilken, Doug Dramine, Lisa Marie Basile, Richard Wink, Ada Fetters, Rod Tipton, Eli Forrester<ref>{{Cite web|title = Masthead {{!}} Commonline Journal|url = http://www.thecommonlinejournal.com/p/editorial.html|website = www.thecommonlinejournal.com|accessdate =2026-04-13}}</ref> | staff_writer = Ben Sutherland | photographer = Matt Valentine | category = Literary magazine E-journal<ref>{{Cite book|title = Periodicals database {{!}} OCLC WorldCat|oclc = 830033665}}</ref> | frequency = Quarterly / Rolling | publisher = Imperative Papers | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | total_circulation = | founder = | founded = | firstdate = 2007 | finaldate = 2017 | company = | country = United States / United Kingdom | based = Seattle, WA / Norwich, ENG | language = English | website = {{URL|http://www.thecommonlinejournal.com/}} | issn = 2327-364X }}
'''''The Commonline Journal''''' is a literary e-journal of accessible poetry and discourse.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Online periodicals catalog {{!}} U.S. Library of Congress|url = http://lccn.loc.gov/2013201077|website = www.loc.gov| oclc=830033665 |accessdate = 2026-04-13}}</ref>
The publication was developed in 2007 as an interdisciplinary curriculum in hypertextual literary theory by students in the Culture, Text, and Language unit at The Evergreen State College. The journal established its reputation by publishing realist poetry by authors emerging through Web 2.0 networks and turn-of-the-century online magazines.<ref>{{Cite web|title = About {{!}} Commonline Journal|url = http://www.thecommonlinejournal.com/p/organization.html|website = www.thecommonlinejournal.com|accessdate = 2026-04-13}}</ref> It published a range of forms and declared a proclivity for “stark narrative free-verse poetry that is visceral and grounded.”<ref>{{Cite web|title = Submission guidelines {{!}} The Commonline Journal|url = http://www.thecommonlinejournal.com/p/submit.html|website = www.thecommonlinejournal.com|accessdate =2026-04-13}}</ref>
''The Commonline Journal'' featured regular contributions from several Literary Editors including the poets Justin Hyde, Dennis Paul Wilken, Rob Plath, and Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal. Notable contributors to the journal include writers James Robison, Tony O'Neill, Suzanne Buffam, Rebecca Wolff, Ellen Bass, D. M. Aderibigbe, Lyn Lifshin, National Poetry Slam champion Anis Mojgani and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn. <ref>{{Cite web|title = Contributors {{!}} Commonline Journal|url = http://www.thecommonlinejournal.com/p/contributors.html|website = www.thecommonlinejournal.com|accessdate = 2017-04-14}}</ref>
The journal published its final issue in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Journal listing {{!}} Doutrope Digest|url = http://duotrope.com/listing/2386|website = www.duotrope.com|accessdate = 2017-04-14}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.thecommonlinejournal.com/}}
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