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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

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2010

Online Exclusives

Contents

Fiction Essays Poetry Conversations Reviews The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction

Fiction

The Pied Piper of Fuckit

by Miles Harvey

by Kathleen Hill

by John Kinsella

Over on Madison

by Varsha Kukafka

The Statue Game

by Kuzhali Manickavel

Essays

by Marilyn Abildskov

My Father, the Good Bull

Te Fuiste Sin Siquiera Despedirte

The Thickness of Soup or Hair

by Sarah Gorham

by Dinah Lenney

Miss Schaffzin is a Tall, Thin, Casually Groomed White Female in No Distress

by Eliezra Schaffzin

Poetry

by Idris Anderson

from Monograph

by Simeon Berry

by Paula Bohince

by Paula Bohince

Course in General Linguistics

by Jaswinder Bolina

The Noodle Maker’s Shop

by Karina Borowicz

What Depresses Me

by Juanita Brunk

In Ordinary Time

by Anthony Carelli

from The World

by M. R. B. Chelko

by Chard DeNiord

Brother Geometry

Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank

by Carrie Fountain

Theory of Perfection

by Carrie Fountain

Fading Smile: A Triptych

Translated from the Chinese by Michael Spence

The Swept Stoop

from Le Repos, dans la suite des jours

by Michaël Glück

Translated from the French by Rosanna Warren

by Barry Goldensohn

two poems from Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie

by Joshua Harmon

by Jeffrey Harrison

by David Hellman

Everything I’m About to Tell You Actually Happened

by David Hernandez

Bundesland Bavaria

Cavafy in Liverpool

by John Kinsella

Masculine/Feminine

by Katherine Larson

Study for Love’s Body

by Katherine Larson

The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears

by Hailey Leithauser

Translated from the Italian by Harry Thomas and Marco Sonzogni

Translated from the Italian by Harry Thomas and Marco Sonzogni

Elegy for a Poet Whose Books I Didn’t Think Were Worth Re-reading, Not Until Now

Self-Portrait as the Y-Axis

Words in Dreams

by Sandra McPherson

by Erika Meitner

The Book of Dissolution

by Erika Meitner

by Albert Mobilio

How to Eat a Lobster

by Jessica Murray

Ihuatzio, Mexico

by Andrew H. Oerke

from Vivienne’s Recovery

by Chad Parmenter

by Martha Rhodes

by Martha Rhodes

by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

The Humpbacks—Neither Nor

by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

by Jason Sommer

by Dennis Trudell

What They Made from Its Bones

by William Wenthe

by Bruce Willard

One Day the Will

by Ryan Van Winkle

Food, Prizes, Tours, Plastic Surgery

by Scott Withiam

from Kopenhaga

by Grzegorz Wróblewski

Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda

Conversations

The Prayer of Attention: A Conversation with Yahia Lababidi

Reviews

Killer Landscape

by Scott Cheshire

From Dark to Light: The Poems of Pavel Šrut

by Stephan Delbos

Locked Doors and Dungeons

by Miciah Bay Gault

“I am Happiest, Here, Now!”: Arthur Sze’s Poetry of Witness: The Ginkgo Light

Frank and the Sinyaya Bluza

by Rachel Mennies

Poet of Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, 1941–2008

by Jeannie Vanasco

“Shard. Shard. Shard.”: Mary Ann Samyn and the Fractured Meditative Lyric

by Anton Vander Zee

The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction

Editor’s Note

The Visual Language of Victor Ekpuk

by William Pierce

Fiction

Knocking Tommy’s Hustle

by Akin Adesokan

A Picture From Ireland

by Victor E. Ehikhamenor

Like God on a Sunday Morning

by Bernard Farai Matambo

Sethunya Is Our Bride

by Wame Molefhe

The Banana Eater

by Monica Arac de Nyeko

2010

Online Exclusives