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2026

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Contents

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviewsReverbProximity: A Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color

Editor’s Note

The Launch of AGNI 103
by agnimag
The Launch of AGNI 104
by agnimag
The Launch of Proximity: A Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color
by agnimag

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
Honoring the Opaque: Strategies for (Not) Translating Queerness
by Hoyoung Moon
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
Exit Poll
by Cortney Lamar Charleston
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
Sea Lung
by Pura López Colomé
Translated from the Spanish by Hillary Gulley
Explaining the Joke
by Campbell McGrath
Pleistoscene
by Laura Sheahen
De Re Publica
by Rosanna Warren
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
Notes from the Sphere: A Series
by Issam Zineh
Notes from the Sphere: Translating Two Sonnets from Mercè Rodoreda’s World of Ulysses
by Rebecca Simpson
Notes from the Sphere: Urdu, Khalida Hussain, and Me
by Farah Ali
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
“But is he even real?” AI Meets Creative Nonfiction
by Mary Cappello
“The Border Moves Through Us”: From Minneapolis, 2026
by agnimag

Proximity: A Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color

Fiction
The Reply
by Choi Eunyoung
Translated from the Korean by Sung Ryu
Flower and Pot
by Wiam El-Tamami and Vidhi Doshi
Body Sovereign
by Verdell Walker
Essays
It and I
by Deepa Bhasthi
Flower and Pot: A Note on Process
by Wiam El-Tamami and Vidhi Doshi
Close Range
by Leila Christine Nadir
Hybrid
Skin without Flesh
by Areej Ashhab
Poetry
母女
by Sophia Chong
Woman, Mouth, Leaf
by Leila Farjami
Stayin’ Alive
by Nathalie Handal
Oldest Daughter Syndrome Abecedarian
by Siobhan Jean-Charles
The Poet Visits Dearfield Because It Is Important They Remember That Drought Happens Every Twenty Years on the Plains
by Sydney Mayes
Almost Aubade—In Which the Lover Does Not See Dawn
by Porsha Olayiwola
Cancel Mother Tongue
by Sharmaine Sun
Art Feature
Chemical Hysterical
by Samira Abbassy
Cross Colour
by Lola Flash
Turbine Bagh
by Sofia Karim
Gut Feelings Meri Jaan x Boomerang
by Jasleen Kaur
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