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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire
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2026

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Contents

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviewsReverb

Editor’s Note

The Launch of AGNI 103

Fiction

Wedding
by Ahmed Awny
Translated from the Arabic by Wiam El-Tamami

Essays

The Crossing
by Muhammad al-Zaqzouq
Translated from the Arabic by Wiam El-Tamami
The Invisible Belt
by Purple Saxifrage

Poetry

A Minibus of Volunteers
by Dmitry Blizniuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by Sergey Gerasimov
Fuckery
by Hayan Charara
I Think of My Mother, I Think of Maureen
by Denise Duhamel
Squinting to See the Faces
by Denise Duhamel
Mihalis Katsaros in the Craving Clutch of the Moon
by George Kalamaras
“If war”
by Maksym Kryvtsov
Translated from the Ukrainian by Larissa Babij
Explaining the Joke
by Campbell McGrath
Pleistoscene
by Laura Sheahen
The Rapture is Happening Slowly, One at a Time, to Everyone
by Jeff Whitney

Conversations

Rewriting the Script of Matrescence Memoir: A Conversation with Erica Stern
by Elizabeth Brogden

Reviews

Angel with a Flower on Her Chest
by Seán Carlson
Hurling On for Fame: John Berryman’s Uncollected Dream Songs
by Mark Neely

Reverb

A Cold Halo of Calm
by Purple Saxifrage
Memory of Translation
by Maria B. Olujic
Posthumous Regrets
by Mark Polizzotti
Resisting Perfection
by Krista Timeus Cerezo
The Cooperage
by Melissa Green
Tracing the Going Morning
by Katherine Indermaur
What the Poet Taught Me
by Rachel Basch
You Are Not the Choir—or, Seeing the Matrix
by Sarah Rose Nordgren
“The Border Moves Through Us”: From Minneapolis, 2026
by agnimag
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