Welcome to the AGNI 91 poetry launch! (There’s also an all-genre page and a page of videos by our editors.)
We’re excited to present the first issue that we edited together as part of the newly expanded masthead. Early in our editorial process, it became clear that we shared a mutual understanding: we valued poetry written by poets from all walks of life, and, perhaps more important, we were sensitive to poems that energized us through a speaker’s use of rhythm, form, and imagination. Wide-ranging in aesthetic and theme, the poems and translations in AGNI 91 are committed to a singular music and an essential vision that arrive like visitations across time and distance from one solitude to another. We are honored and delighted to build a doorway for this gathering.
—The Poetry Editors
AGNI 91‘s full roster of poetry is available online for the next three months. Please know that, as always, this issue lives first and best in print. Buying it is just one of the ways you can support our work.
Benjamin S. Grossberg’s poem “In the Late Days of the Republic”
Katherine Fallon’s poem “Glacial”
Heather Sellers’s poem “Accidental Practitioners”
Anya Silvers’s poem “To the Poet”
Alice Pettway’s poems “The Dead of Winter” and “Sacrifice”
Will Cordeiro’s poem “Unregenerate Pastoral”
Cynthia Manick’s poem “There Are No Unsacred Spaces”
Gina Franco’s poem “We Want Everything of Value to Be Eternal”
Kate Li’s poem “As Relic, As Remnant”
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Every Part of the Animal****”
Dawn Tripp’s poems “Looking for Arrowheads,” “The Gate,” and “Night in August”
Christine Gosnay’s poem “I Can’t Remain Here”
Leslie Sainz’s poems “Mal de Ojo” and “Sonnet for Obatala”
Laura Villareal’s poem “Mother // Monster”
Mairead Small Staid’s poems “Demeter, Midwinter” and “Watching the Eclipse with Weldon Kees”
Sasha West’s poem “The Long Emergency”
Glenn Shaheen’s poem “Generation Loss”
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Alen Hamza’s poem “Action at a Distance”
Steven Sanchez’s poem “Ode to Syphilis”
Emily Mohn-Slate’s poem “People at Yellow Lights Scrolling”
Benjamin Gucciardi’s poems “Outside Tallahassee” and “The Invisible Hand Knocks Twice”
D. Nurkse’s poem “Our Defeat”
Jackie Craven’s poem “Under a Calder Mobile, August 1959”
Mervyn Seivwright’s “Manhood’s Gambit” and “Chess Piece Patterns”
Jay Wickersham’s poem “My Great-Grandfather’s Chair”
Richard Tillinghast’s poem “Early Church”
**Sandra McPherson’s poem “Class Art / Art Class: Sutter Psych Hospital****”
Colin Channer’s poems “The Fat Man Spoke of Fish” and “The Fixed Mutability of Things”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem “Wanderer’s Night Song (II),” translated by James Richardson
