AGNI 90

Mirrors of experience, refractions of the heart. Imagine assembling a kaleidoscope with a trove of colored gems, then looking into the eyepiece. From the deeply vibrant color fields of artist Laurie Goddard’s cover and portfolio, to—among many riches—moving and finely worked essays by Rilla Askew, Clifford Thompson, and Jodie Vinson; strong-torquing poems by Hope Wabuke, Noah Warren, and Kevin Prufer; and stories by Lavinia Liang, Crystal Wilkinson, and Stephen Dixon, AGNI 90 circles through a vast emotional spectrum and leaves you feeling the world has been mysteriously rearranged.

Editor’s Note Fiction Essays Hybrid Poetry Art Feature

Editor’s Note

I Write This as the Amazon Burns

by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

The Spirit of Entitlement

by Olufunke Grace Bankole

An Accident

by Makie Blake

Never the Same Way Twice

by Maud Casey

Tomorrow

by Stephen Dixon

Just Visiting

by Genevieve Hudson

The Eagle over the Funeral in the Shearing Shed

by John Kinsella

How to Blow Up a Beaver Lodge

by Mary Kuryla

Diary of a Madwoman

by Paula Köhlmeier

Translated from the German by Maria Fink

Summer of Lucky

by Lavinia Liang

Fine Feathers

by Billy O’Callaghan

The Way We Live Now

by Crystal Wilkinson

Essays

Dear Tulsa

by Rilla Askew

Ghost Museum

by Elvis Bego

Out of Hand

by Martha Cooley

The Cracked and the Crazed

by Erica X Eisen

Having a Cake and Eating It, Too

by Becca Rothfeld

Summer of ’83

by Clifford Thompson

Byron Was Here

by Jodie Noel Vinson

Hybrid

Late Night at The Little Star

by Brian Tierney

Poetry

Praise for Lukewarm Tortilla Soup & Dog Hair on the Upholstery

Parting at Changgan

by Li Bai

Translated from the Chinese by Rachel DeWoskin and Kenneth DeWoskin

Enlargement

by André du Bouchet

Translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers

It’s Important I Remember That History Is All a Big Misunderstanding—

by Cortney Lamar Charleston

It’s Important I Remember That Thomas Jefferson Was a Rapist—

by Cortney Lamar Charleston

The Ground and the Sky Go Together

by Heather Christle

from The Umbrian Sonnets

by Jay Deshpande

The Kraken’s Lair

by Kerry James Evans

The Dream Called Us

by Emily Fragos

Lepidopterist

by Gemma Gorga

Translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin

Ghazal: takhulus

In the Freezer

The Secret

Queens of Nights

Still

Coronulinae

by Jenna Le

I Imagine the Butches’ Stripper Bar

by Jill McDonough

The Lies of Love

by David Mura

The Awful Truth

by Erin O’Luanaigh

And He Will Guide My Craft

by Kevin Prufer

Fears

by Kevin Prufer

A Little Learning

by Jayme Ringleb

Il Ratto di Proserpina

by Thom Schramm

The Absent Father

by Matthew Sumpter

Ode to Kanye West’s Colonized Mind on the Hundredth Recommendation for My Son to Read Richard Wright’s Native Son, the Only Book I Will Never Give Him

by Hope Wabuke

Amour-Propre

by Noah Warren

Conservation of Force

by Noah Warren

The Classical Tradition

by Noah Warren

A Darker Art

by Brian Wickers

Art Feature

Present Tense

by Laurie M. Goddard

Shedding Light (essay)

by Laurie M. Goddard