Don’t miss the exclusive, online-only recording of Ananda Lima’s Issue 17 poem “Translation,” up on our website today!

Want more Issue 17 content? Pass some time this summer by listening in on this exclusive recording of Jennifer Jean’s poem “Malibu Beach.”

#TBT to 2018 DISQUIET Literary Prize award-winner Kristina Faust’s Issue 16 poem “Offstage, Christ,” which now lives on through an exclusive, online-only poetry recording! Relive the piece through the recording in the link above.

Next up for Issue 17 launch week, we’re spotlighting former TC editor Diana Babineau’s poem “What My Father Said,” a poignant reflection on childhood, identity, and privilege.

“…Like here, where everyone / looks the same as everyone / else but me, my siblings. / Like here, in his pale arms holding / me as I cry stupidly over / what he had to endure—the horror / of losing your wallet…”

“What did I know of skylines, / of a sea of brown faces not in a field, / but walking down Lenox Avenue?”

2019 Whiting Award-winner Tyree Daye writes about memories of Harlem in this brand-new poem for Issue 17. Check it out in the link above, and keep an eye out on our social media for more launch week favorites!

A good day is a day

without bad news.

Sometimes everything turns out fine—

no news,

no fiction.

Three thousand steps to the supermarket

frozen chickens

like dead stars

gleam after death.

All you need is

mineral water,

I only

need my mineral water.

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