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AGNI 86

Contents
Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryArt Feature

Editor’s Note

Derek Walcott at BU: A Sorting
by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

The Velveteen Lover, or How Androids Become Real
by Julianna Baggott
Bending the Map
by Amber Caron
Once More Before It’s Too Late
by Patrick Dacey
Discharge Planning
by Perri Klass
How the Mind Can Exist in a Physical Universe
by Stefani Nellen
Winterlight
by Kent Nelson
The Influence of the Sixties on the Seventies
by Nick Papandreou
I Want My Car
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A Little Bit of Wickedness
by Liza Ward

Essays

Later
by Lucy Biederman
The Great Meal
by Jung Hae Chae
Mutatis Mutandis
by Chad Davidson
Thieves
by Donald Quist
Traveling in Bardo
by Ann Tashi Slater

Poetry

Saturn’s Country
by William Archila
Walking the Ruined City
by Peter Balakian
Gueule de Bois
by Judith Baumel
Bloodworm Baltimore French Fry
by Bruce Beasley
Costumes
by Bruce Cohen
Sarajevo,
by Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Rudolph’s Tears
by Richard D’Abate
A Small Metamorphosis or The Power of Seeing
by Alicia Elkort and Jennifer Givhan
One by One
by Alicia Elkort and Jennifer Givhan
Winter Documentary
by Dore Kiesselbach
Mutabor: Speedlooker
by Karl Kirchwey
Driving Through Utah, Listening to the Radio
by Sophie Klahr
Bossa Nova
by Brian Jerrold Koester
I Shall Name the Worms
by Hailey Leithauser
Strawberry Moon
by Jennie Malboeuf
Crying in the Cab Away from You
by Jill McDonough
Dog Days
by Bern Mulvey
To the Ashes
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel
While She Sleeps
by John Rybicki
The Melancholy of Shadows at Dawn
by Ravi Shankar
The Utopian
by Ravi Shankar
Magpie
by Natalie Shapero
You Heard It Here First
by Natalie Shapero
Eulogy for the Gladioli
by Eva Skrande
Fisherman
by Eva Skrande
Bear
by Maggie Smith
Walking the Dog
by Maggie Smith
Wild
by Maggie Smith
“Love Is Blue”
by William Wenthe
Still Life: Stevens’s Wallet on a Key West Hotel Dresser
by David Wojahn

Art Feature

Thought Samples from the Memory of a Drawing Man (essay)
by Mensur Demir
Translated from the Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian by Mirza Purić
Visible Cities
by Mensur Demir
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The diverging scales of public and private. Standing back and then homing in, architect and former graffiti artist Mensur Demir builds a space for poems by David Wojahn, Peter Balakian, Sophie Klahr, Natalie Shapero, and many others. Ruminations on shoplifting, Spoleto, and the cultural nuances of eating (by Donald Quist, Chad Davidson, and Jung Hae Chae) play against fraught interiors in the fiction of Julianna Baggott, Kent Nelson, and Perri Klass, to name just some.

Editor
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Senior Editor
William Pierce
Poetry Editor
Sumita Chakraborty, Lynne Potts
Fiction Editor
William Giraldi, Mary O'Donoghue
Nonfiction Editor
Jennifer Alise Drew
Blog Editor
David Ebenbach
Social (Twitter)
Rachel Mennies
Newsletter Director
Alison Lanier
Marketing/social (facebook)
Daniel Pritchard
Manuscript Reader
Brian Burt
Galley Editors
Lindsay Guth, Beth Romano
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren
Editorial Assistants
Audrey Poe, Aanchal Narang, Leone Brander, Anna Hundert, Meagan Reilly, Christian Wessels, Efpraxia Sapuridis
Contributing Editors
Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, William Corbett, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Anne Germanacos, Marie Howe, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Ha Jin, 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
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