AGNI 46

AGNI 46

Our Twenty-fifth Anniversary issue, dedicated to first publications by new authors. Mary Sullivan, Tiffany Meyers, Derek Webster, Humair Yusuf, Traci Sobocinski (winner of the 2001 PEN New England Discovery Award), Meg Tyler, et al. Plus poetry by James Laughlin and Rafael Campo, a conversation between Sven Birkerts and Saul Bellow, and fiction by Percival Everett.

Editor’s NoteFictionPoetryConversationsReviewsFirst Publications

Editor’s Note

AGNI at Twenty-Five
by Askold Melnyczuk

Fiction

Finem respice
by Percival Everett

Poetry

Drafts of “The Tooth”
by Sophie Cabot Black
The Tooth
by Sophie Cabot Black
A Poet’s Education
by Rafael Campo
An Honest Heart—A Knowing Head
by James Laughlin
Drafts of “Question for the Director of Recycling”
by David Rivard
Question for the Director of Recycling
by David Rivard
Grandpa Paul
by Charles H. Rowell
Window
by Charles H. Rowell
The Opening
by Drew Swinger

Conversations

A Conversation with Saul Bellow
by Sven Birkerts
Interview with James McMichael
by Sue D. Burton
Translated by James McMichael
Portrait of the Artist as Invisible Man: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell
by Thomas Sayers Ellis

Reviews

Hypnogogic Poetry
by Annie Finch
From Baghdad to Bohemia
by Jeff Galbraith
Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End
by John Lane
Jeredith Merrin’s Shift
by Mary Maxwell
The Humanist’s Muse
by Drew Swinger
Two Seconds
by George Weld

First Publications

Fiction
Jason
by Christopher Chesak
July
by Beth Chimera
Ese
by Gac Kim
The Difference between Us
by Jeannette Lareau
Saltimbocca
by Tiffany Meyers
from On Being an A-merican
by Nhi Nguyen
Loving Mr. H
by Shelley Salamensky
What Is An Omniscient Narrator?
by Traci Sobocinski
Belvedere
by Tammy Spurgeon
The Whole Sky Is Mine
by Mary Louise Sullivan
Incapable of Love
by Humair Yusuf
Poetry
Faith
by Jeremy Countryman
Siamese
by Jacqueline De Angelis
Things no one knows
by Jacqueline De Angelis
How To Kiss with Confidence
by Karen Helfrich
Influencing Factors
by Karen Helfrich
Convalescence
by Remy Holzer
Same Time Next Year
by Remy Holzer
When We Spoke Last
by Remy Holzer
beside still waters
by Mark Lamoureux
poem to be accompanied by galaxie 500
by Mark Lamoureux
A Record of Loving Water
by HeidiLynn Nilsson
*@#&!
by Browning Porter
Chinese Tortoise in Harvard Yard
by John David Scully
Action-Packed Sonnet
by Prageeta Sharma
Boon
by Prageeta Sharma
In This Shifting Apartment
by Prageeta Sharma
Performance
by Prageeta Sharma
Tradership
by Prageeta Sharma
The Clearing
by Meg Tyler
Odalisque
by Derek Webster