We celebrate in this double issue the fifteenth anniversary of The Agni Review. I wanted to bring together work that typifies what Agni has been and is foremost—a journal highlighting promising young writers. And, indeed, in this issue there are many fresh voices—Kate Blackwell and Suzanne Gardinier, Wayne Koestenbaum and Marie Howe, to name only a few. It has been a special pleasure to gather a sampler of current work from past Agni Feature Poets. In almost every issue since Agni 4 we have showcased a poet whose work we considered outstanding and who hadn’t yet published a book. So many of our Feature Poets have gone on to those first books, and more: Herbert Morris, Edward Hirsch, Jane Miller, Jordan Smith—again, to name only a few.

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