Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convirtiéndose en characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection, featured in AGNI 99
Against Rhetoric
Issam Zineh
Issam Zineh is assistant poetry editor of AGNI and has been on the editorial team since 2024. He is the author of Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022; the87press [UK], 2026), a Trio House Press Editors’ Selection and finalist for the Housatonic Book Award and Balcones Prize for Poetry. A public health care worker, he lives on Paskestikweya land. Visit him at www.issamzineh.com. (updated 9/2026)
Read Zineh’s entry in AGNI’s “In Discussion: AGNI 95 Reviews AGNI 95”
Read Jacques J. Rancourt’s review of Zineh’s “N. Oxford Avenue” in the folio “AGNI 95 Reviews AGNI 95”
Zineh edits the ongoing series Notes from the Sphere.