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Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, El fracaso de los texeles / The Failure of the Church Women (detail), 2004, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection, featured in AGNI 99

Fifty Mothers

Essay from AGNI 99 by Preeti Vangani
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Preeti Vangani

Preeti Vangani is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions, 2019), winner of the RLFPA Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poem-a-Day,The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, AGNI, and elsewhere, and in 2021 her debut short story received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers. Based in San Francisco, she teaches in the MFA writing program at University of San Francisco. (updated 4/2024)

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