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2010

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Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviewsThe AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction

Fiction

The Pied Piper of Fuckit
by Miles Harvey
Fall
by Kathleen Hill
Bats
by John Kinsella
Over on Madison
by Varsha Kukafka
The Statue Game
by Kuzhali Manickavel

Essays

Hatless
by Marilyn Abildskov
My Father, the Good Bull
by Nin Andrews
Te Fuiste Sin Siquiera Despedirte
by Mark Dow
The Thickness of Soup or Hair
by Mark Dow
On Selfishness
by Sarah Gorham
Flight Jacket
by Dinah Lenney
Miss Schaffzin is a Tall, Thin, Casually Groomed White Female in No Distress
by Eliezra Schaffzin
Lokshen Kugel
by Alisa Wolf

Poetry

A Correction
by Idris Anderson
from Monograph
by Simeon Berry
Lenox Aubade
by Paula Bohince
Milkweed
by Paula Bohince
Course in General Linguistics
by Jaswinder Bolina
The Noodle Maker’s Shop
by Karina Borowicz
What Depresses Me
by Juanita Brunk
In Ordinary Time
by Anthony Carelli
from The World
by M. R. B. Chelko
Left
by Chard DeNiord
Brother Geometry
by Kevin Ducey
Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank
by Carrie Fountain
Theory of Perfection
by Carrie Fountain
Fading Smile: A Triptych
by Mo Fu
Translated from the Chinese by Michael Spence
Breakup
by Faye George
The Swept Stoop
by Faye George
from Le Repos, dans la suite des jours
by Michaël Glück
Translated from the French by Rosanna Warren
Harvest
by Barry Goldensohn
two poems from Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
by Joshua Harmon
On Bitching
by Jeffrey Harrison
Lonely Planet
by David Hellman
Everything I’m About to Tell You Actually Happened
by David Hernandez
Bundesland Bavaria
by Evan Jones
Cavafy in Liverpool
by Evan Jones
Epiphany
by John Kinsella
Masculine/Feminine
by Katherine Larson
Study for Love’s Body
by Katherine Larson
Winter Poet
by Sydney Lea
The Moon Speaks of Polar Bears
by Hailey Leithauser
Delilah
by Primo Levi
Translated from the Italian by Harry Thomas and Marco Sonzogni
Samson
by Primo Levi
Translated from the Italian by Harry Thomas and Marco Sonzogni
Elegy for a Poet Whose Books I Didn’t Think Were Worth Re-reading, Not Until Now
by Timothy Liu
Graph Paper
by Roy Mash
Self-Portrait as the Y-Axis
by Roy Mash
Words in Dreams
by Sandra McPherson
Niagara
by Erika Meitner
The Book of Dissolution
by Erika Meitner
Provision
by Albert Mobilio
How to Eat a Lobster
by Jessica Murray
Hotel Orpheus
by Jason Myers
Ihuatzio, Mexico
by Andrew H. Oerke
from Vivienne’s Recovery
by Chad Parmenter
Banana Boat
by Martha Rhodes
Next Minute
by Martha Rhodes
Echo
by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
The Humpbacks—Neither Nor
by Hoyt Rogers
The Luthier
by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Brouhaha
by Jason Sommer
Twenty-Two
by Dennis Trudell
What They Made from Its Bones
by William Wenthe
Perennial
by Bruce Willard
One Day the Will
by Ryan Van Winkle
Food, Prizes, Tours, Plastic Surgery
by Scott Withiam
First Contact
by Greg Wrenn
Prayer at Ojai
by Greg Wrenn
from Kopenhaga
by Grzegorz Wróblewski
Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda

Conversations

The Prayer of Attention: A Conversation with Yahia Lababidi
by Alex Stein

Reviews

Killer Landscape
by Scott Cheshire
From Dark to Light: The Poems of Pavel Šrut
by Stephan Delbos
Locked Doors and Dungeons
by Miciah Bay Gault
“I am Happiest, Here, Now!”: Arthur Sze’s Poetry of Witness: The Ginkgo Light
by Dana Levin
Frank and the Sinyaya Bluza
by Rachel Mennies
Poet of Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, 1941–2008
by Jeannie Vanasco
“Shard. Shard. Shard.”: Mary Ann Samyn and the Fractured Meditative Lyric
by Anton Vander Zee

The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction

Editor’s Note
The Visual Language of Victor Ekpuk
by William Pierce
Fiction
Knocking Tommy’s Hustle
by Akin Adesokan
A Picture From Ireland
by Victor E. Ehikhamenor
The Harbinger
by Toni Kan
Like God on a Sunday Morning
by Bernard Farai Matambo
Sethunya Is Our Bride
by Wame Molefhe
In Parenthesis
by Maik Nwosu
The Banana Eater
by Monica Arac de Nyeko
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