AGNI 93

AGNI 93

Unforeseen urgencies, heightened introspections. The long Covid siege has put pressure on everything, not least the expressive arts. AGNI 93, with its unsettling cover and art portfolio by Deepa Jayaraman, channels the mood of the times. The issue includes poetry by Rafael Campo, Hope Wabuke, and others; fiction by Sara Majka, Jamie Figueroa, and Anzhelina Polonskaya (translated by Andrew Wachtel); and an utterly sui generis essay by Gregory Paul Caicco. Variety and intensity are the hallmark—we celebrate the wresting of meaning from loss and distress.

Editor’s Note Fiction Essays Hybrid Poetry Art Feature

Editor’s Note

The Fitful Tracing of a Portal

by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

By the Creeks of Wyoming

by Shoshana Akabas

Lush

by Whitney Collins

Letting the Penguins Out

by Katherine Fallon

Like None Other

by Jamie Figueroa

Netting

by Oluwabambi Ige

The Riverbend Motel

Fade-out

by Anzhelina Polonskaya

Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel

Elephant Seals

by Meghan Louise Wagner

Essays

Mater Marginalia

by Craig Bernardini

Empty House

by Gregory Paul Caicco

Llano, Texas

What We Might Salvage

by Craig Reinbold

by Preeta Samarasan

Hybrid

Calling the Horses Home

by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Camera Obscura

by Natania Rosenfeld

Codicil of Selected Excisions from the Memoir

by Nance Van Winckel

Poetry

Extinction

by Erin Adair-Hodges

Ramine’s Weather Machine

by Yasmine Ameli

Das Gift

Martyrium

by Bruce Beasley

ars poetica

by Despy Boutris

Owl and the Saber

The Lean of a Horse’s Body at Sunset

Blue

by Rafael Campo

The Book of One Hundred Thousand Whys

by Rafael Campo

Sub-pastoral

by Andrew Collard

Melancholy’s Mirror

by Robert Cording

The Uncles

by Liza Katz Duncan

In the Eye of the Beholder

by Malcolm Farley

On the Morning of Your Surgery

by Jen Stewart Fueston

Reliquariana

by John Gallaher

Status

Climate Change, No. 67

by Johan Huybrechts

In the Beginning We Spoke Nothing

Tree Friend

by Matilde Ladrón de Guevara

Translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Pelky and Jake Young

Elegy Told after the Flood

Bermuda Triangle

by David M. de León

Diaspora

by David M. de León

Turn from God and into an Exhibitionist

Sometimes I Dream a Suicide in the Shape of Lake Ontario

Portrait as a Vagrant Walking through Grief to Meet God

by Nome Emeka Patrick

Lorca at Eden Lake

by W. S. Di Piero

To a Friend Sick Again

by W. S. Di Piero

“There are people who upon dying”

by A. E. Quintero

Translated from the Spanish by Whitney DeVos

Little Bear

by Maxine Scates

god, they keep telling me to bleed scriptures from my mouth to find you

by Sharanya Sharma

White Teeth

Untitled (Black on Gray), 1969

by Jim Whiteside

In the Warring Three Kingdoms

Down Below

Art Feature

Pincushion Anatomy (essay)

by Deepa Jayaraman

Spasmic Lineation

by Deepa Jayaraman