AGNI 95
Contents
Editor's Note
Interiors
Fiction
Next of Kin
The River Is a Man
Cyborg's Brother
There Is Nobody Here but Us
Essays
The past is gone and you can't get it back
by Nin Andrews
Pacing Tigers
Dear Person Who I Loved, Back When I Mistook Letters for Love
by Carrie Cogan
Florida, Farewell
Three Horses
by Sarah Gorham
Postcards of the Night Sky
by Kelle Groom
Shelf Life
Hybrid
Manual for a Galactic Alter Ego
Poetry
At the Autoimmune Retreat
Exposures
by Emma Aylor
Speaker
by Emma Aylor
Lowrider
by Jan Beatty
Winter Photographs
by Don Bogen
from Therapon III
by Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick
Catalytic Converters
by Fleda Brown
Happiness (from the Innocent Love Series), 1999
Perfect Happiness (from the Innocent Love Series), 1999
Two Stories
Long Tall Fence
Week 24: Pomegranate
Un-epithalamium
by Liza Flum
Where Corn Husks Crosshatch Fields
by K. A. Hays
Hollowed
Sonnet Ending in Response of a Four-Year-Old Told to Stop Banging His Fork on the Table
from Heartwood
Chagall's A Wheatfield on a Summer's Afternoon at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bitch under a Tree Eating Wendy's
Such Love
Translated from the Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and Yuliya Musakovska
sometimes conversation is unnecessary
by Lynette Ng
The Holding At Graylock
by D. Nurkse
The North
by D. Nurkse
Camouflage
Poem Not Intended to Stand in Contrast to Anything for Once
Place Names
Magical Thinking
by Ellen Rogers
Self-Portrait as Midwest Dawn
by Bruce Snider
When people traveled to the worry well
look, Lord
Art Feature
You broke the ocean in half to be here...
by Andrea Chung
Sugar Sea: On Artist Andrea Chung (essay)
Conflicts and reckonings. Flags held and changed and changed again, in Ukrainian poet Yuliya Musakovska’s “Such Love” (translated with Olena Jennings) and Robert Pinsky’s “Place Names.” Journeys at the edge of competing intentions, in stories by Koye Oyedeji and Mariana Villas-Boas. Prose from the multiplicities of self by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Kelle Groom, and Khairaini Barokka. And poems that reexamine the surface, by Victoria Chang, Kimiko Hahn, Charlie Clark, and D. Nurkse. Artist Andrea Chung tears through the cover.
Editors
Sven Birkerts
William Pierce
Sven Birkerts, William Pierce
Associate Editor
Shuchi Saraswat
Shuchi Saraswat
Senior Fiction Editor
Mary O'Donoghue
Mary O'Donoghue
Poetry Editors
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Jessica Q. Stark
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Jessica Q. Stark
Nonfiction Editors
Jennifer Alise Drew
Shuchi Saraswat
Jennifer Alise Drew, Shuchi Saraswat
Editor at Large
Julia Brown
Julia Brown
Reviews Editor
Rachel Mennies
Rachel Mennies
Blog Editor
Grace Singh Smith
Grace Singh Smith
Assoc. Poetry Editor
Esteban Rodriguez
Esteban Rodriguez
Asst. Poetry Editors
Dorsey Craft
Jenny George
Dorsey Craft, Jenny George
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
Newsletter Introductions
James Brookes
James Brookes
Social (Facebook)
Effie Sapuridis
Effie Sapuridis
Blog Assistant
Cynthia Ayeza
Cynthia Ayeza
Social (Twitter)
Esteban Rodriguez
Ari Kaplan
Esteban Rodriguez, Ari Kaplan
Social (Instagram)
Ariel Courage
Ariel Courage
Editorial Assistants
Taylor Arnette
Ella Schroeder
Jacqueline Guzman
Carolynn Mireault
Iris Zheng
Zoe Stonetree
Ash Anderson
Taylor Arnette, Ella Schroeder, Jacqueline Guzman, Carolynn Mireault, Iris Zheng, Zoe Stonetree, Ash Anderson
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