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AGNI
A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire
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2008

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Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversations

Fiction

The Whale Hunter
by Steinur Bell
A Friday Desdemona
by Margo Berdeshevsky
Blinkered
by Colin Fleming
Natasha
by David Galef
Wayward Children and Their Guardians
by Thomas Gough
City of Bridges
by Rebecca Hall
The Coffin Makers of Ghana
by Matt Rager
Agosti
by D. E. Steward
Advent: A Traveler’s Tale
by Girija Tropp
Old and New Style
by Paul West
The Beast
by Anne-E. Wood

Essays

See Me Slant: Poetry Considers Her Mother
by Kim Dana Kupperman
Trust and the Cowboy
by Ashley McCullough
The Men from Town
by Ryan Van Meter
Terra Sancta, or On Learning to Read the Signs
by Kimberly Meyer
Going Nowhere
by Sam Pickering
So Long, Studs
by Richard Stern
Lucky at Cards
by Emily Stone

Poetry

Stock Market Cycle (Stock Market Blues, Not Yet?, Jump!)
by Nin Andrews
Un cheval de race
by Charles Baudelaire
Translated from the French by Allen Hagar
I Don’t Fear Death
by Sandra Beasley
Love Poem for Wednesday
by Sandra Beasley
My God
by Sandra Beasley
Against a Kaleidoscope, 5″ x 7″
by Erin M. Bertram
The Gospel of Thomas: Through the Open Wound
by Erin M. Bertram
Traveling by Train
by Malachi Black
To the Man Who Stole the Trees We Planted in Memory of My Brother-In-Law Who Killed Himself Earlier in the Spring
by Jenny Browne
Landscape with a Very Fat Man, Seated
by Paula Closson Buck
What They Had Come For
by Paula Closson Buck
The Aerodynamics
by Rick Bursky
The Forties
by Trent Busch
There’s More to Whaling Than Whales
by Anthony Caleshu
Writer’s Rooms, Anthony Caleshu, Photograph by Eamonn McCabe for The Guardian
by Anthony Caleshu
Racism
by Bruce Cohen
Mockingbird
by Wyn Cooper
After the Chinese
by Steven Cramer
On a Line By Brian Phillips
by Diana Der-Hovanessian
Marlon Brando Considers His Sex Appeal, in Glorious Black and White
by Rachel Dilworth
Evander Holyfield’s Left Ear Remembers June 28. 1997
by Gary Dop
Venery
by CJ Evans
Everyone knows everything already.
by Don Gilliland
Flamingos Feed Far in the Shadows
by Mary Gilliland
Poem
by Don Gilliland
The monocle is a circle the eye is a circle
by Heather Green
Refusal
by Lilah Hegnauer
Flipbook
by David Hernandez
Supermarkets This Large
by David Hernandez
Vial Trapped in a Fairy Tale
by Suzanne Heyd
Educations
by Katherine Hollander
Care of the Body
by Karen Kevorkian
Recognition Failure Horror
by John Kinsella
Introduction
by Andrew Kozma
Sunnyside Road
by Timothy Liu
Sweet Salvage
by Sara London
strokes
by Dick Lourie
Fact
by Kevin McFadden
Ram’s Horn and Citron, Tinder and Carillon
by Leslie McGrath
First Snowfall
by Wesley McNair
The Shore Party
by Tomas Q. Morin
O, What a Beautiful Morning
by Robert Nazarene
from Fairy Tale: Cottage
by Stephen O’Connor
Song in Four Parts with Jeanette McDonald Closeup
by Julie Sophia Paegle
Osteria by the Sea
by Umberto Piersanti
Translated from the Italian by M. F. Rusnak
Second Line
by Iain Haley Pollock
I Try to Hear the Island Disappearing
by Gretchen Steele Pratt
Amongst the Cares
by Jordan Rice
Jerry Lee Lewis Plays “That Lucky Old Sun” at Bad Bob’s Vapors Club, Memphis, Tennessee
by Bobby C. Rogers
Protea
by Michael Rutherglen
Spoon, or A convenient place setting
by Kent Shaw
Wind Gift
by William Stafford
Gossip
by Alison Stine
Susurrus of Sheets, Goodbye
by Terese Svoboda
What the Sky Is Like
by Alpay Ulku
Kindness
by Tim Upperton
Duel after the Masquerade
by Charles Vallely
Goldsmith and Charity
by William Wenthe
The World As You Left It
by Helen Wickes
Keeping Up Appearances
by Sarah Wolfson
Letter Home
by Sarah Wolfson

Conversations

“Worth Taking the Trouble to Say”: A Conversation with James McMichael
by Mark Dow
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