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.”

At TC, Madison Davis’s Issue 16 essay “Land Not Theirs” was an instant favorite. Relive the piece through an exclusive, online-only audio recording, available now! Don’t miss it in the link above.

Time for an Issue 16 throwback: click the link above to listen to writer Mindy Misener’s recording of her story “Baby Was Not Fine!”

#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.

We’re wrapping up our launch week with a bang: acclaimed journalist Aatish Taseer’s powerful essay “We Shall Be a Country with No History” explores his perception of race in America, and is a definite must-read! Don’t miss it in the link above.

“It was black American writing, and the black American experience more generally, that first alerted me to the presence of history in America. It made the TV-prepared reality I inhabited less flat; it was my first intimation of something tragic and complex at the heart of American life; and, far from turning me away from the society, it made the place more familiar.”

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…”