AGNI 98
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
You’re Pinocchio, I’m Geppetto, and We Dance
by Ramón Isao
As Evident by Her Numinous Flaws
Honey Valley
Didi
Essays
A Poetry Reading in Diyarbakir
Being With
Afterlives
by Sarah Khatry
My Misogyny
by Mara Naselli
Zugunruhe
Hybrid
Le jour
Poetry
In Which My Horns Were Forged, Not Given
by Ruth Awad
Creation Myth for Bald Girls
by Ruth Awad
First Philosophy
O
by Leila Chatti
Untitled 1975–86
Omaha Divorce
Time Can’t Erase, Together
Poem in Which I Have Doubts and Then Some Faith
Poem in Which I Try to Be Social
Rind
by R. K. Fauth
Insatiable
by R. K. Fauth
An October Almanac
Maria Nepomuceno—Out of the window 3 (2021)
To Hear, at This Window, Bare-Throated Bellbirds
A White Horse Is Not a Horse
by Angelo Mao
Blueberry Picking
by Sharon Olds
I Remember It
by Sharon Olds
Not Writing
by Sharon Olds
Every Poem I Write to You Is an Aubade
The Immortal Marsyas
Biographia Literaria
Paradise Lost
Afternoon with Afternoon in Naples with a Black Maid by Paul Cezanne, by Katana Smith
by Katana Smith
The Kiss
by Katana Smith
The Hush
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
An Underworld
The Sound of Children Screaming Has Been Removed
Consequences. AGNI 98 fronts the world as we find it, parsing enigmas and celebrating the drive to engage necessary truths. Essays by Mara Naselli and Peter Balakian take on misogyny and cultural suppression. Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Rochelle Hurt, jason b. crawford, and Sharon Olds probe the surprising energies of duress, while stories by Lucy Sweeney Byrne and Mylene Fernández Pintado (in Dick Cluster’s translation) test commitments to decisions made. Cover artist Eva Lundsager sets the tone, finding motion in landscapes at the edge.
| Editors | Sven Birkerts | ||
| William Pierce | |||
| Senior Editor | Shuchi Saraswat | ||
| Senior Fiction Editor | Mary O'Donoghue | ||
| Senior Poetry Editor | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | ||
| Poetry Editor | Jessica Q. Stark | ||
| Nonfiction Editor | Kelle Groom | ||
| Editor at Large | Julia Brown | ||
| Reviews Editor | Rachel Mennies | ||
| Blog Editors | Ryan Choi | ||
| Grace Singh Smith | |||
| Asst. Fiction Editors | Ben Black | ||
| Amber Caron | |||
| Ariel Courage | |||
| Assoc. Poetry Editor | Esteban Rodriguez | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editors | Dorsey Craft | ||
| Jenny George | |||
| Rachel Mennies | |||
| Newsletter Founder | Alison Lanier | ||
| Newsletter Introductions | Arielle Kaplan | ||
| Social (Facebook) | Effie Sapuridis | ||
| Blog Assistant | Cynthia Ayeza | ||
| Social (Twitter) | Esteban Rodriguez | ||
| Arielle Kaplan | |||
| Social (Instagram) | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Ariel Courage | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Cynthia Ayeza | ||
| Rachel M. Dillon | |||
| Ifeanyi Ekpunobi | |||
| Eitan Sengupta | |||
| Michael Campbell | |||
| Gene Wang | |||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Contributing Editors | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Jennifer Alise Drew | |||
| 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 | |||
| Typesetting & Design | Gian Lombardo / Quale Press |