For AGNI’s 50th: A Virtual Conversation Series
In 2022, AGNI and Brookline Booksmith celebrated AGNI’s 50th anniversary with a series of six intimate virtual conversations, all on Mondays at 8 PM Eastern. Each paired one of the journal’s editors with a contributor whose work defines, for them, the ever-evolving AGNI aesthetic.

> Monday, April 25th at 8 PM ET          Coeditor Sven Birkerts launched off the series with National Book Award finalist Joan Wickersham, whose genre-switching books foreground exploration and language.

> Monday, May 23rd at 8 PM ET          Poetry Editor Jessica Q. Stark sat with poet Shangyang Fang, whose unflinching lines fuse history, imagination, and indictment.

> Monday, June 20th at 8 PM ET          Editor-at-Large Julia Brown engaged story-writer Sara Majka, a stylist with a gift for moving nonchalantly into bouts of surprise.

> Monday, July 25th at 8 PM ET           Senior Poetry Editor Jennifer Kwon Dobbs met with Kimiko Hahn, whose poetry triangulates toward social justice with a keen focus on the multiple implications of our words.

> Monday, September 19th at 8 PM ET          Senior Fiction Editor Mary O’Donoghue talked with novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin, whose fiction shocks realities into fabulisms.

> Monday, October 17th at 8 PM ET          The chief editors of AGNI from its founding in 1972 to the present held a roundtable on the history of the magazine and lit mags’ place in the wider literary ecology: founder Askold Melnyczuk, former editor Sharon Dunn, and coeditors Sven Birkerts and William Pierce, moderated by associate editor Shuchi Saraswat.