AGNI 90
Contents
Editor's Note
Fiction
An Accident
By Makie Blake
Never the Same Way Twice
By Maud Casey
Tomorrow
Just Visiting
The Eagle over the Funeral in the Shearing Shed
How to Blow Up a Beaver Lodge
By Mary Kuryla
Summer of Lucky
Fine Feathers
The Way We Live Now
Essays
Out of Hand
The Cracked and the Crazed
Having a Cake and Eating It, Too
Summer of ’83
Byron Was Here
Hybrid
Late Night at The Little Star
Poetry
It’s Important I Remember That Thomas Jefferson Was a Rapist—
It’s Important I Remember That History Is All a Big Misunderstanding—
The Ground and the Sky Go Together
from The Umbrian Sonnets
The Kraken’s Lair
The Dream Called Us
By Emily Fragos
Praise for Lukewarm Tortilla Soup & Dog Hair on the Upholstery
By Jenn Givhan
Ghazal: takhulus
In the Freezer
The Secret
Still
Queens of Nights
Coronulinae
By Jenna Le
I Imagine the Butches’ Stripper Bar
The Lies of Love
By David Mura
The Awful Truth
And He Will Guide My Craft
By Kevin Prufer
Fears
By Kevin Prufer
A Little Learning
Il Ratto di Proserpina
By Thom Schramm
The Absent Father
Ode to Kanye West’s Colonized Mind on the Hundredth Recommendation for My Son to Read Richard Wright’s Native Son, the Only Book I Will Never Give Him
By Hope Wabuke
Conservation of Force
By Noah Warren
Amour-Propre
By Noah Warren
The Classical Tradition
By Noah Warren
A Darker Art
Mirrors of experience, refractions of the heart. Imagine assembling a kaleidoscope with a trove of colored gems, then looking into the eyepiece. From the deeply vibrant color fields of artist Laurie Goddard’s cover and portfolio, to—among many riches—moving and finely worked essays by Rilla Askew, Clifford Thompson, and Jodie Vinson; strong-torquing poems by Hope Wabuke, Noah Warren, and Kevin Prufer; and stories by Lavinia Liang, Crystal Wilkinson, and Stephen Dixon, AGNI 90 circles through a vast emotional spectrum and leaves you feeling the world has been mysteriously rearranged.