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AGNI
A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire
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2009

Online Exclusives

Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryReviews

Fiction

Watchers
by Scott Cheshire
Twenty Years Back
by Durjoy Ghosh
Knappenstrasse
by Karl Harshbarger
Obituary
by Ihab Hassan
Sometimes She Wondered What Would Happen
by Anthony Varallo
The Boy
by Anthony Varallo
The First Days
by Anthony Varallo

Essays

Bits
by Sven Birkerts
Dinner with Strangers
by Greg Bottoms
Snooking
by Andrew Furman
The Annoying Lacuna: One Unofficial History of the Oulipo
by Christopher Higgs
Aphorisms
by Yahia Lababidi
Running My Mouth
by Sara McKinnon
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
by Rebecca Nemser
The Wages of Sin Is Laughter
by Alexander Nemser
Creation
by M. Lynx Qualey
Kissing Wayne Newton
by Ellen Slezak
AWP Chicago: A Gamer’s Notes
by J. S. Tunotre

Poetry

Biography I
by Seth Abramson
We Caught Snakes
by R. S. Armstrong
Drying Out
by James Arthur
Song of the Species
by James Arthur
At the Loose Noose
by Kevin Barents
At Broad Channel
by Ryan Black
A Homecoming
by Daniel Bosch
My Dog Earl
by Daniel Bosch
Desert
by Annie Boutelle
What Are We Waiting For?
by Nicholas Bradley
Andalucian Pastoral at the Grave of Ariel
by Kara Candito
Pete
by Victoria Chang
Japanese Buffet
by Bruce Cohen
Unofficial Life
by Bruce Cohen
Letters from the Dead
by Peter Cooley
Care
by Carol Ann Davis
In the School of Empty Hands
by Carol Ann Davis
At 78, Maurita Discovers the Waterslide
by Gary Dop
“I scanned my photograph . . .”
by Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
“My mama asked after your death . . .”
by Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska
“The word apple doesn’t contain in it any truth”
by Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska
“This is the first line . . .”
by Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska
Nostalgia
by Nava EtShalom
A Year or More
by Kerry James Evans
A Belly Dancer’s Death
by György Faludy
Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Sohar
You Went to Sicily
by György Faludy
Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Sohar
Why Did the Kissing Start?
by Chris Forhan
After Lady with a Parasol
by Matthew Gavin Frank
Quim-Quams
by Stuart Friebert
Narcissist’s Daughter
by Wendy J. Herbert
Emblem 107: On Love
by Richard Hoffman
Emblem 152: On Human Life
by Richard Hoffman
Plain Cotton Panties
by Adam Houle
Fat Man
by Hilary S. Jacqmin
The Limey
by Hilary S. Jacqmin
Aine and the Earl of Desmond
by Janet Jennings
Servants
by Richard Jones
After Another Argument I’ve Come to Regret
by Keetje Kuipers
Slow Burn
by Sydney Lea
Miss Zucchini Blossom
by Sonja Livingston
from Paradise, Attained by Touch
by Robert Lunday
If I Am a Total Washout as a Lover (And I Am)
by Anthony Madrid
The Milk One
by Anthony Madrid
The Middle Way
by Erica McAlpine
Greatest Show on Earth
by Jen McClanaghan
Birding the I-4 Corridor
by Mark McKain
Butterfly Count
by Mark McKain
Self-Portrait
by Andrew H. Oerke
Rules of the Game
by Ricardo Pau-Llosa
*
by Simon Perchik
*
by Simon Perchik
Homecoming
by Stephanie Pippin
Phaedra
by Stephanie Pippin
Owl and Flock
by Mark Rudman
New Delights
by Silke Scheuermann
Translated from the German by Chris Michalski
Whispering Villages
by Silke Scheuermann
Translated from the German by Chris Michalski
American Liver Mush
by Ravi Shankar
Rough Translation of a Song Sung to Me in the Peloponnesus by a Laconian Shepherd near Mystra in 1970
by Kathryn Starbuck
18th Century Remains
by Tess Taylor
Tenderfoot
by Chase Twichell
Always Waiting for the Train
by Liliana Ursu
Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
Piaţa Ovid
by Liliana Ursu
Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
Waiting for Hurricane Isabella to Pass
by Liliana Ursu
Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
Misc. poem (ones)
by Daneen Wardrop
Misc. poem (tree)
by Daneen Wardrop
Instructional Ghazal
by David Welch
Pietas
by Philip White
On a Greek Vase
by Marc Woodworth
Sanatorium Juqueri
by Kelleen Zubick

Reviews

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Lindisfarne
by Drew Johnson
What Is George Scialabba Good For?
by Mark Oppenheimer
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