AGNI 24 and 25
Contents
Editor's Note
Fictions
Yodeling
from Dig
Sister
The Music Student
Babylove
No Friends, All Strangers
by Lucy Honig
Quicksand
by Diane Lefer
Birthday
Advancing La Crosse
The Gorge
The Eloquence of Light
Staying Under
Roof Raising
Night in the Piazza
Poetry
Migration
by Tom Absher
No Aubade
Tellurian
Cézanne: The Ruined Chateau
White Shoulders
by Robert Bagg
Lace
by Eavan Boland
Nocturne
by Eavan Boland
Suburban Woman: A Detail
by Eavan Boland
Walt Whitman in Ohio
Diaspora
Everybody’s Business
Fishing Trip
To Mary, Who Is Married Now
Two Traveling Women and the Houdini Man
Sisyphus Inverted
Bees, Los Conquistadores
Guest
by Debra Hines
Menses
by Marie Howe
Song of the Spinster
by Marie Howe
The Split
by Marie Howe
The Answer is in the Garden
Ambassador of Imperfect Mood
The Advent of Common Law in Littoral Disputes
Catalpa
by Paul Mariani
Growing Up Ukrainian
The Ordinary Weather of Summer
by Linda Pastan
Man Walking Downstairs Backwards, Turning, Walking Away While Carrying Rock
Woman Turning and Lifting Train
Woman Turning, Throwing Kiss, and Walking Upstairs
7-Eleven
by Karen Propp
Doug
Star
Why Cities Have Farmer’s Markets
On Mallarmé’s Plan
by J. P. White
Stone Work
from Work Sonnets: “Just now it was like I had risen to heaven.”; “Music builds the perfect shelter.”; “How slow the Hired Body moves!”
by Daniel Wolff
One Way the Faithful Learn to Dance
by Gene Zeiger
Featured Poet: Lucie Brock-Broido
Poetry
A Little Piece of Everlasting Life
Autobiography
Constellation of the Birds
I Think Deeply of Ruin
Noctilucent
Put Your Little Shoes Away
AGNI 24/25 is the teeming Fifteenth Anniversary double issue. The work of Lucie Brock-Broido, the feature poet, radiates alongside a sampler of new work by earlier feature poets, such as Melissa Green and Mekeel McBride, and poems by William Logan, Marie Howe, Debora Greger, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eavan Boland, and Linda Pastan. This energy carries over to the fiction in the issue as well. Stories by David Bosworth, Arturo Vivante, Joyce Carol Oates, Marjorie Sandor, and others take us to the center of grief, panic, and compassion.
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Editor
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Fiction Editor
John J. Clayton
John J. Clayton
Contributing Editor
Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts
Managing Editor
Matthew Childs
Matthew Childs
Poetry Readers
Edward Adams
Susan Bartfay
Midge Eiselle
Edward Adams, Susan Bartfay, Midge Eiselle
Fiction Readers
Trish Crapo
Katie Greenebaum
Dan Hayes
Randall Howe
Bill Lawren
Geoff Macdonald
Trish Crapo, Katie Greenebaum, Dan Hayes, Randall Howe, Bill Lawren, Geoff Macdonald
Editorial Assistant
Andi Werblin
Andi Werblin