AGNI 99
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
Essays
Poetry
Art Feature
To Never Have Risked Our Lives: A Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing
Editor’s Note
Fiction
Poetry
All of our places remain. Contributors struggle with displacement and “home,” belonging and having to establish, resisting and being able to simply be. Partly devoted to a major new portfolio of writing from the Central American and Mexican diasporas, AGNI 99 unites around bewilderment and the force of clarity—discovering how we landed here and acknowledging where we stand. Geography extends beyond the folio, in poems by Mosab Abu Toha and Mercè Rodoreda (trans. Rebecca Simpson); fiction by Steven Archer and Urvi Kumbhat; essays by Lia Purpura and Marion Winik; and more. Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Guatemala’s “accident painter,” sets the vivacity and tumble right in front of us, on the cover.
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 | George Estreich | ||
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 (X) | Esteban Rodriguez | ||
Arielle Kaplan | |||
Social (Instagram) | Rachel Dillon | ||
Editorial Assistants | Elizabeth Callahan | ||
Cerissa DiValentino | |||
Katie Priest | |||
Louise Moran | |||
Gene Wang | |||
Ifeanyi Ekpunobi | |||
Cynthia Ayeza | |||
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 |