The HYBRID Launch of AGNI 95

On Wednesday, May 11, at 7:00 p.m., AGNI  will launch 95 in a hybrid event with in person and virtual readings by Lynn Emanuel, Yasmine Ameli, David Moloney, Mariana Villas-Boas, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, and Andrew Zubiri, plus a musical performance by Julian Kytasty.

Register to join IN PERSON: https://agni-95-launch.eventbrite.com

Register to join ON ZOOM: https://bit.ly/95-by-ZOOM​​​​​​

For AGNI’s 50th: A Virtual Conversation Series

Throughout 2022, AGNI and Brookline Booksmith are celebrating AGNI’s 50th with a series of six intimate virtual conversations, all on Mondays at 8 PM Eastern. Each will pair one of the journal’s editors with a contributor whose work defines, for them, the ever-evolving AGNI aesthetic.

Upcoming Events:  

> Monday, May 23rd at 8 PM ET          Poetry Editor Jessica Q. Stark sits with poet Shangyang Fang, whose unflinching lines fuse history, imagination, and indictment. 
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> Monday, June 20th at 8 PM ET          Editor-at-Large Julia Brown engages story-writer Sara Majka, a stylist with a gift for moving nonchalantly into bouts of surprise. 
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> Monday, July 25th at 8 PM ET           Senior Poetry Editor Jennifer Kwon Dobbs will meet with Kimiko Hahn, whose poetry triangulates toward social justice with a keen focus on the multiple implications of our words. 
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> Monday, September 19th at 8 PM ET          Senior Fiction Editor Mary O’Donoghue will be in conversation with novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin, whose fiction shocks realities into fabulisms. 
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> Monday, October 17th at 8 PM ET          The chief editors of AGNI from its founding in 1972 to the present will hold a roundtable on the history of the magazine and lit mags’ place in the wider literary ecology: founder Askold Melnyczuk, former editor Sharon Dunn, and coeditors Sven Birkerts and William Pierce, moderated by associate editor Shuchi Saraswat. 
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Past Events:

> Monday, April 25th at 8 PM ET          Coeditor Sven Birkerts launched off the series with National Book Award finalist Joan Wickersham, whose genre-switching books foreground exploration and language.