AGNI 92
Contents
Editor’s Note
From the Interregnum
Fiction
Double-Check for Sleeping Children
High Sun
by Vanessa Cuti
Situation Cards
by Chris Eagle
Now Pray: Notes on a Separation
Ivo Of
by Eric Pahre
Oral History of the Lansing Motors Second Annual Truck Touch (as transcribed by Lisa Poole, Assistant Manager)
by Pete Stevens
Essays
John
How to Speak to a Police Officer
by Bailey Gaylin Moore and Donald Quist
Gorky at the Movies
A different kind of elsewhere
by My Tran
Hybrid
The Other Girl
by Nin Andrews
A Brief History of Bang
by Matt Donovan
Conversations with Scott
Ever River
Poetry
Self-Portrait of the Stolen Body
by Aldo Amparán
Walking the Fields
Wall
by Bruce Bond
A Few Men, a Few Ropes, Power Saws
by Abby Caplin
The Desire Path
QVC
Worlds
Extinction Event #6
by Steven Duong
Ode to Adam Rippon’s Butt
A Machine Designed to Hunt Mammoths
Variation on Romance in the Time of Famine
Third Journey
Augur
Fate
Mere Atmosphere
After the Festival
by Matt Morton
Westerly
by Matt Morton
Lament for the Maker
Shower
by JoAnna Novak
Our Lady of the WIC Check
Floating Kayak in a Storm
As If
Kayaderosseras
Birds
by Maya Ribault
Medusa Takes the Stand
Habits of Adornment
The Wreck of the Unnamed
Traces found and brought to light. Disquieting images by cover and portfolio artist Sandra Brewster catch the mood of our times—a mood echoed throughout the issue in work by our most attuned and expressive writers. Stories by Uzma Aslam Khan and Kirstin Allio lay bare the subjective costs of separation, while Bailey Gaylin Moore and Donald Quist offer a unique and relevant dialogue-essay in “How to Speak to a Police Officer.” Other stories, essays, and hybrid pieces discover new urgencies in the perennial, while the energies of invention shine out from poems by Brittany Cavallaro, Benjamin Garcia, Cyrus Cassells, Shara McCallum, and many others.
| Editors | Sven Birkerts | ||
| William Pierce | |||
| Nonfiction Editors | Jennifer Alise Drew | ||
| Shuchi Saraswat | |||
| Poetry Editors | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | ||
| Ruben Quesada | |||
| Fiction Editors | Julia Brown | ||
| Emma Copley Eisenberg | |||
| Mary O'Donoghue | |||
| Reviews Editor | Rachel Mennies | ||
| Blog Editor | Grace Singh Smith | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editors | Alan Chazaro | ||
| Jenny George | |||
| Esteban Rodriguez | |||
| Jessica Q. Stark | |||
| Asst. Fiction Editors | Ben Black | ||
| Amber Caron | |||
| Ariel Courage | |||
| Newsletter Director | Alison Lanier | ||
| Social (Facebook) | Effie Sapuridis | ||
| Marketing | Dan Pritchard | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Contributing Editors | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| 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 | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Tyler Dunston | ||
| Nayereh Doosti | |||
| Anna Schaeffer | |||
| Anna Prawdzik Hull | |||
| Ari Kaplan | |||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk |