AGNI 93
Contents
Editor's Note
The Fitful Tracing of a Portal
Fiction
By the Creeks of Wyoming
Lush
Like None Other
Netting
The Riverbend Motel
by Sara Majka
Elephant Seals
Hybrid
Calling the Horses Home
Camera Obscura
Codicil of Selected Excisions from the Memoir
Poetry
Extinction
Ramine’s Weather Machine
Das Gift
by Zain Baweja
Martyrium
ars poetica
Owl and the Saber
by Chee Brossy
The Lean of a Horse’s Body at Sunset
by Chee Brossy
Blue
by Rafael Campo
Sub-pastoral
Melancholy’s Mirror
The Uncles
In the Eye of the Beholder
On the Morning of Your Surgery
Reliquariana
Status
by James Hoch
Climate Change, No. 67
In the Beginning We Spoke Nothing
by Jay Kophy
Tree Friend
Translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Pelky and Jake Young
Elegy Told after the Flood
by Sarah Lao
Bermuda Triangle
Diaspora
Turn from God and into an Exhibitionist
by Zach Linge
Sometimes I Dream a Suicide in the Shape of Lake Ontario
by Peter Mason
Portrait as a Vagrant Walking through Grief to Meet God
Lorca at Eden Lake
To a Friend Sick Again
Little Bear
god, they keep telling me to bleed scriptures from my mouth to find you
White Teeth
by Hope Wabuke
Untitled (Black on Gray), 1969
In the Warring Three Kingdoms
by JinJin Xu
Down Below
by S. Yarberry
Unforeseen urgencies, heightened introspections. The long Covid siege has put pressure on everything, not least the expressive arts. AGNI 93, with its unsettling cover and art portfolio by Deepa Jayaraman, channels the mood of the times. The issue includes poetry by Rafael Campo, Hope Wabuke, and others; fiction by Sara Majka, Jamie Figueroa, and Anzhelina Polonskaya (translated by Andrew Wachtel); and an utterly sui generis essay by Gregory Paul Caicco. Variety and intensity are the hallmark—we celebrate the wresting of meaning from loss and distress.
Editors
Sven Birkerts
William Pierce
Sven Birkerts, William Pierce
Nonfiction Editors
Jennifer Alise Drew
Shuchi Saraswat
Jennifer Alise Drew, Shuchi Saraswat
Poetry Editors
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Ruben Quesada
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Ruben Quesada
Fiction Editors
Julia Brown
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Mary O'Donoghue
Julia Brown, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Mary O'Donoghue
Reviews Editor
Rachel Mennies
Rachel Mennies
Blog Editor
Grace Singh Smith
Grace Singh Smith
Asst. Poetry Editors
Alan Chazaro
Jenny George
Esteban Rodriguez
Jessica Q. Stark
Alan Chazaro, Jenny George, Esteban Rodriguez, Jessica Q. Stark
Asst. Fiction Editors
Ben Black
Amber Caron
Ariel Courage
Ben Black, Amber Caron, Ariel Courage
Asst. Blog Editor
Anna Prawdzik Hull
Anna Prawdzik Hull
Newsletter Director
Alison Lanier
Alison Lanier
Social (Facebook)
Effie Sapuridis
Effie Sapuridis
Blog Assistant
Cynthia Ayeza
Cynthia Ayeza
Marketing
Dan Pritchard
Dan Pritchard
Editorial Assistants
Annaka Saari
Nayereh Doosti
Julia Pike
Nohemi Gamis
David Brinson
Ari Kaplan
Tyler Dunston
Aline Dolinh
Annaka Saari, Nayereh Doosti, Julia Pike, Nohemi Gamis, David Brinson, Ari Kaplan, Tyler Dunston, Aline Dolinh
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Ha Jin
Robert Pinsky
Rosanna Warren
Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren
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
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