AGNI Online

“just the mud / beneath the nails, and just the not-night ground, // and baths and living room scales . . .”

Marlon Brando Considers His Sex Appeal, in Glorious Black and White

A poem by Rachel Dilworth

“’Fess up, honey, what you wouldn’t give / for the fat smugness of my tongue shoved in a cheek . . .”

Vial Trapped in a Fairy Tale

A poem by Suzanne Heyd

“Postpone your / departure, love, this may / be a miracle in the offing.”

Writer’s Rooms, Anthony Caleshu, Photograph by Eamonn McCabe for The Guardian and There’s More to Whaling Than Whales

Two poems by Anthony Caleshu

“On the wall there hang some impediments: a harpoon, a crucifix, maps of the South Pacific and North Dakota . . .”

The World As You Left It

A poem by Helen Wickes

“in the room where the body guys left / a silk rose, there's the unkind note \ on the dresser top . . .”

Amongst the Cares

A poem by Jonathan Rice

“Afterwards she scoured her thighs / with handfuls of dried grass, discarding them clutch by clutch / at the roadside.”

Fact

A poem by Kevin McFadden

“Still we mustn’t forget / in truth’s pursuit / that facts should be more / than found or checked; / they must be produced”

strokes

A poem by Dick Lourie

“it strikes me that I don’t look at photo / albums except here ‘that’s you Dad and your / kids . . .’”

Natasha

A story by David Galef

“Call me Pygmalion or just an interferer.”

AGNI News and Events

NEPC’s annual celebration of AGNI:
On Tuesday, October 21st, at 7:00 p.m., the New England Poetry Club will host an all-AGNI reading at the Cambridge Public Library, Central Square branch. Todd Hearon, Emily Scudder, and Dzvinia Orlowsky will read from their work. Free and open to the public.

For the fourth straight year, an AGNI Online story has been named one of the Top Ten Online Stories of the year by storySouth. Congratulations to Matthew M. Quick, author of “Do Not Hate Them Very Much”!

Poetry Daily featured David Rivard’s essay “A Note on Stephen Berg’s Rimbaud,” which appears in AGNI 67.

Harrison Solow’s essay “Bendithion,” accompanied by a music CD in AGNI 66, has won a Pushcart Prize and will be reprinted in the 2009 anthology.

Tom Sleigh, AGNI poet and contributing editor, is the 2008 winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award for his collection Space Walk.

Alex Lemon’s poem “from Hallelujah Blackout,” first published in AGNI 65, will appear in Best American Poetry 2008.

Song in Four Parts with Jeanette McDonald Closeup

A poem by Julie Sophia Paegle