AGNI 98

AGNI 98

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.

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysHybridPoetryArt Feature

Editor’s Note

Looking Out for Humanity
by William Pierce

Fiction

Hard Water
by Mylene Fernández Pintado
Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster
You’re Pinocchio, I’m Geppetto, and We Dance
by Ramón Isao
Mister Nowakowski
by Max Kruger-Dull
As Evident by Her Numinous Flaws
by Shauna Mackay
All That Hunger, All That Thirst
by Subraj Singh
Honey Valley
by Lucy Sweeney Byrne
Didi
by Hantian Zhang

Essays

A Poetry Reading in Diyarbakir
by Peter Balakian
Being With
by Emmanuel Iduma
All Things Considered
by Rae Katz
Afterlives
by Sarah Khatry
My Misogyny
by Mara Naselli
Zugunruhe
by Kathryn Nuernberger

Hybrid

Le jour
by Sabrina Fountain

Poetry

Creation Myth for Bald Girls
by Ruth Awad
In Which My Horns Were Forged, Not Given
by Ruth Awad
First Philosophy
by Joshua Bennett
It Runs in the Family
by Joshua Bennett
Myth
by Leila Chatti
O
by Leila Chatti
Untitled 1975–86
by jason b. crawford
Untitled 1975–86
by jason b. crawford
Omaha Divorce
by Adam O. Davis
Time Can’t Erase, Together
by Geffrey Davis
Poem in Which I Have Doubts and Then Some Faith
by Denise Duhamel
Poem in Which I Try to Be Social
by Denise Duhamel
Insatiable
by R. K. Fauth
Rind
by R. K. Fauth
An October Almanac
by Brendan Galvin
Maria Nepomuceno—Out of the window 3 (2021)
by Rochelle Hurt
To Hear, at This Window, Bare-Throated Bellbirds
by Christopher Kondrich
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
by Kwame Opoku-Duku
Biographia Literaria
by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Paradise Lost
by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Immortal Marsyas
by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Danubian Principalities’ Horse
by George Seferis
Translated from the Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg
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
by William Snyder
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Matthew Tuckner
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Matthew Tuckner
From the Future
by Tomas Venclova
Translated from the Lithuanian by Diana Senechal
Notes on Xenophon
by Tomas Venclova
Translated from the Lithuanian by Diana Senechal
An Underworld
by Benjamin Voigt
The Sound of Children Screaming Has Been Removed
by Benjamin Voigt

Art Feature

Reflections on Painting (Essay)
by Eva Lundsager
Under Constant Still
by Eva Lundsager