AGNI celebrates its ONE HUNDRED FIRST issue with readings by > Kazim Ali: In more than twenty volumes of poetry, novels, essay collections, and cross-genre texts, Ali “confronts philosophical quandaries capable of leading readers into their own reveries of the sublime” (Publisher’s Weekly). > Rosebud Ben-Oni: The author of several collections, including If This Is the Age We End Discovery (Alice James Books, 2021), a finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. > Debra Nystrom: Nystrom’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Slate, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Her essay in AGNI 101, “Burning Ring,” is part of a memoir-in-progress. > Xueyi Zhou: Born and raised in Foushan, China, Zhou’s fiction has appeared in Guernica, Waxwing, The Best Small Fictions 2022, and other publications. The evening will also feature a musical performance by Matt Yurdana and George Estreich from Mule on Fire. The spring issue includes fiction by Haytham el-Wardany (in Katharine Halls’s translation), Elizabeth Evans, and Alp Türkol; nonfiction by Sarah Rose Nordgren, Sonya Bilocerkowycz, and Graison Gill; and poems by Robert Pinsky, Amy Beeder, Hoa Nguyen, Hera Naguib, and Jackie Sabbagh. Cover artist Malak Mattar’s paintings and sketches depict life in Gaza.