AGNI 96
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
Essays
Poetry
Art Feature
Place and displacement. Essayists Eileen Myles and Jessie van Eerden give visions of terra firma, exploring the space between fixity and mutability, while Teju Cole’s flash stories sketch liminal scenarios that locate the ways mystery attends us. Fiction by Emmelie Prophète (in Aidan Rooney’s translation) and an essay by Sofia Oumhani Benbahmed use settings of conflict and crisis to support a vexing search for identity; poets Michael Torres, Preeti Kaur Rajpal, and Diane Seuss return to moments that promise yet challenge belonging. Then founding editor Askold Melnyczuk and coeditor Sven Birkerts look back on 50 years of AGNI—from conception to full maturity. For a unique and celebratory art feature, we invited inspirations from a roster of former portfolio artists. Their theme: agni, which is to say, fire. The principle of combustion. (Cover art: Anne Neely)
| Editors | Sven Birkerts | ||
| William Pierce | |||
| Associate Editor | Shuchi Saraswat | ||
| Senior Fiction Editor | Mary O'Donoghue | ||
| Senior Poetry Editor | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | ||
| Poetry Editor | Jessica Q. Stark | ||
| Nonfiction Editors | Kelle Groom | ||
| Shuchi Saraswat | |||
| Editors at Large | Julia Brown | ||
| Jennifer Alise Drew | |||
| Reviews Editor | Rachel Mennies | ||
| Blog Editor | Grace Singh Smith | ||
| Asst. Fiction Editors | Ben Black | ||
| Amber Caron | |||
| Ariel Courage | |||
| Assoc. Poetry Editor | Esteban Rodriguez | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editors | Dorsey Craft | ||
| Jenny George | |||
| Newsletter Director | Alison Lanier | ||
| Newsletter Introductions | James Brookes | ||
| Arielle Kaplan | |||
| Social (Facebook) | Effie Sapuridis | ||
| Blog Assistant | Cynthia Ayeza | ||
| Social (Twitter) | Esteban Rodriguez | ||
| Arielle Kaplan | |||
| Social (Instagram) | Ariel Courage | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Taylor Arnette | ||
| Ella Schroeder | |||
| Rachel M. Dillon | |||
| Val Otarod | |||
| Peter Fray-Witzer | |||
| Iris Zheng | |||
| Numertha Geisinger | |||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Advisory Board | 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 |