THE VIRTUAL LAUNCH OF AGNI 99

AGNI celebrates its NINETY-NINTH issue with readings by > Issam Zineh: Palestinian-American poet and author of Unceded Land, finalist for the Medal Provocateur, Housatonic Book Award, and Balcones Prize for Poetry. > Marion Winik: Longtime commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered and the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead, awarded the 2019 Towson Prize for Literature and named a best book of the year by PBS NewsHour and The Star-Ledger. > Steven Archer: Fiction writer whose story “Burrowing Creatures” in AGNI 99 is his first publication. > Vanessa Mártir: Founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound movement; essayist whose work in AGNI 99 is a letter to her late Honduran-American mother. > Ruth Awad: Lebanese-American poet and 2021 NEA fellow in poetry; recipient of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry for her collection Set to Music a Wildfire. > Jonathan Diaz: Finalist for the Ninth Letter’s 2023 Literary Award in Poetry and, like Vanessa Mártir, part of this issue’s landmark portfolio described below. The evening will also feature a live performance by singer-songwriter Natalee. The spring issue includes a major portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora writing, edited by AGNI’s associate poetry editor Esteban Rodríguez, AGNI assistant fiction editor Ben Black, and guest editor Jennifer De Leon—in addition to nonfiction by Lia Purpura and Qais Akbar Omar, fiction by Urvi Kumbhat and Aidan O’Brien, and poetry by Mosab Abu Toha, Daniel Borzutzky, and Mercè Rodoreda (in Rebecca Simpson’s translation). Cover art by Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Guatemala’s “accidental painter.”

When 7:00 am on Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Location Online
Contact Name Louise Moran
Contact Email agni@bu.edu
Contact Organization AGNI
Fees Free
Speakers Issam Zineh, Marion Winik, Steven Archer, Vanessa Mártir, Ruth Awad, and Jonathan Diaz