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2025

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Contents

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryReviewsBlog

Editor’s Note

Submit to Proximity: An AGNI Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color
Keeping AGNI Whole
by agnimag
The Launch of AGNI 101
by agnimag
The Launch of AGNI 102
by agnimag

Fiction

Poetry Lesson
by Katie Shireen Assef
Hardest
by Philip James Shaw

Essays

Details of a War: Gaza, October 2024 - February 2025
by Nahil Mohana
Translated by Katharine Halls

Poetry

Love the Animals
by Khadijah Queen
Chant of Immediate Threats
by Mai Der Vang
Node: When in the end
by Mai Der Vang

Reviews

Placenta-Book: On Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
by Patrick Autréaux
Translated from the French by Tobias Ryan
A Local Struggle: On Danielle Legros Georges’s Last Chapbook
by Michael McGillicuddy
Do Not Despair: On Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems
by Askold Melnyczuk
Pavese’s Hard Labor: On the Risks and Afterlives of Translation
by Yogesh Patel
Ledia Xhoga’s Misinterpretation: A Guide to the Intimacy of Language and Translation
by Suzana Vuljevic

Blog

Bone-Tongued
by Nina Murray
I Think I Jumped a Timeline To Wake You Up
by Rosebud Ben-Oni
On the Train
by Taije Silverman
On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game
by Slava Faybysh
Once I Thought I Could Save People
by Jen Siraganian
Pause—Don’t Look Away
by janan alexandra
Self-Portrait with Blade of Grass
by David Hernandez
Talking Trash
by Nicole Cooley
The Consolation of Byron
by Margaret Everton
The Refrigerated Thought: On Time and Writing
by Delia Maria Davis
The X-Ray at 130
by agnimag
Topographies of the Silk Roads
by M. Cynthia Cheung
What Remains To Be Said
by Yahia Lababidi
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