A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

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Danielle Mckinney, Mercy (detail), featured in AGNI 103

The Scarecrow

Poetry from AGNI 20 by Jeffrey Gustavson

Published: Apr 15 1984

Jeffrey Gustavson

Jeffrey Gustavson’s poems have appeared in Grand Street, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, AGNI, and elsewhere. (updated 1991)

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