AGNI 100
Contents
Editor’s Note
Essays
Poetry
The marks the world leaves. Our hundredth issue exemplifies the engagement, nuance, and spirit that are AGNI’s trademark. Cover artist Chitra Ganesh starts things off with a playful visual rendering of “Sultana’s Dream,” a 1905 feminist utopian fiction by Rokeya Hossain. Stories by Colin Winnette, Xueyi Zhou, and Monique Schwitter (translated by Susan Bernofsky) follow women’s subversion of the gaze, into places of throttled emotion. A bounty of poets, including Paisley Rekdal, J. P. Grasser, and janan alexandra, join the formal ingenuities of DeeSoul Carson, Danielle Pierrati, and others to reach a new intimacy with the past. And essayists Wiam El-Tamami, Elvis Bego, and Anna Badkhen bring a rigorous, compassionate seeing to their meditations on loss and conflict. All this and much more.
Editors | Sven Birkerts | ||
William Pierce | |||
Senior Editor | Shuchi Saraswat | ||
Senior Fiction Editor | Mary O'Donoghue | ||
Senior Poetry Editor | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | ||
Poetry Editor | Jessica Q. Stark | ||
Nonfiction Editor | George Estreich | ||
Reviews Editor | Rachel Mennies | ||
Blog Editors | Ryan Choi | ||
Grace Singh Smith | |||
Asst. Fiction Editors | Ben Black | ||
Amber Caron | |||
Ariel Courage | |||
Assoc. Poetry Editor | Esteban Rodriguez | ||
Asst. Poetry Editors | Dorsey Craft | ||
Rachel Mennies | |||
Issam Zineh | |||
Editors at Large | Julia Brown | ||
Jenny George | |||
Newsletter Founder | Alison Lanier | ||
Newsletter Introductions | Arielle Kaplan | ||
Social (Facebook) | Effie Sapuridis | ||
Blog Assistant | Cynthia Ayeza | ||
Social (X) | Esteban Rodriguez | ||
Arielle Kaplan | |||
Social (Instagram) | Rachel Dillon | ||
Editorial Assistants | Lily Seltz | ||
Emma Claire Everett | |||
Patrick Mulqueen | |||
Louise Moran | |||
Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
Ha Jin | |||
Robert Pinsky | |||
Rosanna Warren | |||
Contributing Editors | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
John J. Clayton | |||
Stuart Dischell | |||
Jennifer Alise Drew | |||
Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita | |||
Anne Germanacos | |||
Marie Howe | |||
Alex Johnson | |||
Dana Levin | |||
Fred Marchant | |||
Fiona McCrae | |||
Gail Mazur | |||
Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
E. C. Osondu | |||
Lia Purpura | |||
George Scialabba | |||
Tom Sleigh | |||
Sue Standing | |||
Oksana Zabuzhko | |||
Typesetting & Design | Gian Lombardo / Quale Press |