AGNI 100 + AGNI 101 · Checked 2026-11-10
Complete official contents for two consecutive issues, including print-only titles, translation credits and art features. Six selected close readings; inaccessible or image-only texts remain bibliographic records.
2 issues · 93 bibliography entries · 6 close readings
Proesy research interpretation
The opening uses third-person present tense and stays close to a young character’s sensory perceptions. Smell becomes a generator of imagined narratives rather than atmospheric decoration.
Reading / revision question
Could one sensory detail organize a scene’s thinking and movement instead of simply decorating it?
Proesy research interpretation
The essay opens with a meeting in a Berlin café, then moves into migration, belonging and political violence. Numbered sections and short separated passages connect bodily experience with civic argument.
Reading / revision question
Which lived scene gives your argument its stakes? Does each shift between scene and reflection change what the reader understands?
Proesy research interpretation
Publication, author and poetry classification are verified in the official issue contents. This entry is bibliographic only; no craft claim is made without a completed close reading.
Reading / revision question
Read the original alongside another poem in the issue before proposing a recurring formal tendency.
Proesy research interpretation
A speaker invites the reader onto a stage and asks them to wear the poet’s body as a coat. Imperatives make reading an uncomfortable bodily participation rather than distant viewing. The final needle and forceps return responsibility to the reader. This theatrical address differs from the sensory third-person opening of Resin and Wood.
Second-person address · Theatrical extended metaphor · Embodied reading
Reading / revision question
What role does your reader occupy: witness, participant, opponent? Rewrite four lines with direct address, then decide whether the changed relationship earns its discomfort.
Proesy research interpretation
The essay sets ancient Lycian myths beside geological accounts, a family reunion and contemporary earthquake damage. Historical scale and intimate experience interrupt each other. Its questioning of the stories attached to catastrophe is enacted through those shifts, not delivered as a detached thesis.
Historical / personal braiding · Documentary reference · Myth and material loss
Reading / revision question
List the strands of your essay. At each transition, name what the new strand makes impossible to ignore in the previous one.
Proesy research interpretation
The opening places a girl in a birdcage inside a wide city morning: birds, sleeping people, drivers, cleaners and smells. Long accumulating sentences widen the scene before attention contracts to Florence and her remembered mother. The impossible bodily premise is embedded in concrete urban routines, not introduced with an explanatory fantasy system.
Third-person present · Metamorphosis · Panoramic opening
Reading / revision question
Try opening with the surrounding system before narrowing to your character. Which sensory detail makes your unusual premise materially believable?
Proesy research interpretation
A general reflection on the boundary between order and wilderness turns into a flower box erupting with rats. Bodily comparisons and rapid movement overturn the narrator’s attempts at control. Dialogue with Chuck slows the scene while repetition exposes fear; the argument begins in a physical encounter rather than a prefabricated lesson.
Generalization into scene · Repeated animal imagery · Dialogue under stress
Reading / revision question
Find the event that tests your essay’s opening belief. Give that event a full scene before explaining what it means.
The official issue contents include fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translations. This is a verified fact about issue 100, not a promise about submission eligibility.
The two prose readings make sensory or bodily experience structurally consequential, but two texts are too few to call this a journal-wide preference.
Both issue contents document fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated works and art features. That verifies editorial range in these issues, not open submission categories or a guarantee of fit.
Florence’s panoramic metamorphosis opening and Resin and Wood’s close sensory focus offer contrasting approaches within fiction. Do not convert a shared sensory vocabulary into a single rule for narrative distance.
Six selected readings across two issues are not representative of the journal’s full history. Good Riddance is published as an image on the publisher page and remains bibliographic only here. Print-only titles link to the official contents, not invented full-text URLs. No poem-level awards or winner comparison has been verified. Check current official AI-assistance restrictions before revising a submission with AI.
93 of 93 entries · Award context is recorded separately
William Pierce
Alana Franasiak
Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Colin Winnette
Anna Badkhen
Wiam El-Tamami
Margaret Everton
Shara Lessley
Margaret Todd Maitland
Katie Marya
janan alexandra
Elizabeth Barnett
Rick Barot
Rosebud Ben-Oni
DeeSoul Carson
M. Cynthia Cheung
Nicole Cooley
Maggie Dietz
Harriet Jae
Erika Meitner
Athena Nassar
Danielle Pieratti
Colin Pope
Kevin Prufer
E. I. Pruitt
Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Heidi Seaborn
Heidi Seaborn
Alessandro Vitali
Elinor Ann Walker
Gail Wronsky
Gail Wronsky
Chitra Ganesh
Preti Taneja
Sven Birkerts
Delia Maria Davis
Elizabeth Evans
Silja Liv Kelleris
Gabrielle McClellan
Alp Türkol
Sonya Bilocerkowycz
Brandi Bird
Graison Gill
Emily Hipchen
Vedran Husić
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Debra Nystrom
Angela Pelster
Amy Beeder
CooXooEii Black
MICHAEL CHANG
Chim Sher Ting
David Hernandez
Shireen Madon
Kristina Martino
Jared Jimenez Maxilom
Jarrett Moseley
Hera Naguib
Hera Naguib
Hoa Nguyen
Hoa Nguyen
Jake Phillips
Robert Pinsky
Khadijah Queen
Khadijah Queen
Jackie Sabbagh
Sappho Stanley
Vanessa Stauffer
David Joez Villaverde
Jim Whiteside
Jim Whiteside
Jess Yuan
Malak Mattar