AGNI. AGNI has been around for 17...

AGNI. AGNI has been around for 17 or 18 years now, continually championing the new and the fine in poetry and mainstream short fiction. The magazine’s regular “Feature Poet” section has become practically a prelude to first book publication. The attention paid to contemporary poetry in translation extends the already wide range of subjects, styles, and sensibilities.

A few years ago, AGNI established its offices at Boston University; this coincided with a great enlargement of the magazine’s attentions and concerns. While maintaining a firm (and in some ways even stronger) connection with its roots, AGNI is also, through essays, reviews, editorials and symposiums, very engaged with examining the social and political world.

Thus we have had, recently, Allen Grossman on nuclear violence, Noam Chomsky on Latin America, Andre Schiffrin on American publishing, Sissela Bok on political corruption, Susan Suleiman’s memoir of World War II, and more--alongside an undiminished complement of poetry and fiction. It’s a highly unusual combination, one well worth paying attention to.

AGNI, Boston University Creative Writing Program, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215; $7 per issue, $12 for two issues.