Conversations
Danielle Mckinney, Table for Two (detail), featured in AGNI 103
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Rewriting the Script of Matrescence Memoir: A Conversation with Erica Stern
I felt like my son’s birth destroyed the narrative I’d heard about giving birth and becoming a mother, and I had to recreate a story for myself. So I wanted the form to reflect that muddling . . .
The Complexity of the Human Heart: A Conversation with Marie Howe
Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.
No Language Feels Small When You’re in It: A Conversation with Poet-Translators David Keplinger and Patrick Phillips
I came to translation by chance. I don’t speak Danish. That I am now referred to as a Danish translator still comes as a shock. I first encountered Nielsen’s work in Copenhagen . . .
Writing to Remember the Tulsa Race Massacre: A Conversation with Rilla Askew and Clemonce Heard
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs’s conversation with award-winning writers Rilla Askew and Clemonce Heard took place over Zoom on November 17, 2021, almost six months after the massacre’s centennial.
The Editors Come Forward for the Virtual Launch of AGNI 91
An enthusiastic addendum to the Virtual Launch of AGNI 91. The editors of AGNI’s spring 2020 issue step forward to give a sense of the spirit behind the magazine.
From the Archive
Creature of Habit: An Interview with Jill McCorkle
Interview with Ernesto Cardenal
Living on That Land: A Conversation with Elana Bell
It seems pretty obvious that it’s best to live as if the future doesn’t exist. We’re all just scratching our marks, leaving our prints, putting our thumbprints down—and maybe someone will see them once in a while. But the point is to make use of your thumb while you have it.