This year has brought us at AGNI a deeply earned occasion for happiness: our fiftieth anniversary. As reviews editor, I wanted to work out what a “reading” or celebration, as part of the year’s rejoicing, might look like in reviewing. I’m thrilled to bring you, today, into that space: a folio of four AGNI 95 contributors responding to, and celebrating, other work in the issue.

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WBUR CitySpace hosted an evening of readings and music in celebration of AGNI. Three-time U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky emceed, with performances by Teju Cole, Victoria Chang, Jo Ann Beard, Chanda Feldman, Caren Beilin, Robert Pinsky himself, and the Boston-based, cross-cultural music project Meridian 71, led by Giuseppe Paradiso.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

after Agnes Martin Agnes must have wanted me to see innocence or happiness when looking at this painting. But all I see is the gathering of pink at the bottom. For every woman, there is a man who is nearby. Every woman has asked a tree a question. If you ask a tree too many questions, it will fall down. You can hear a tree take its last breath, it sounds like gurgling.

Our building floated heavily through the cold On shifts of steam the raging coal-fed furnace Forced from the boiler’s hull. In showers of spark The trolleys flashed careening under our cornice. My mother Mary Beamish who came from Cork Held me to see the snowfall out the window — Windhold she sometimes said, as if in Irish It held wind out, or showed us that wind was old. Wind-hole in Anglo-Saxon: faces like brick,

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

Throughout 2022, AGNI and Brookline Booksmith are celebrating AGNI’s 50th with a series of six intimate virtual conversations, all on Mondays at 8 PM Eastern. Each will pair one of the journal’s editors with a contributor whose work defines, for them, the ever-evolving AGNI aesthetic.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

CitySpace celebrates cutting edge conversations, adventurous art, innovative ideas. CitySpace is WBUR on stage. Convening leaders in all fields for an array of offerings — readings, interviews, debates, conversations, panels, podcasts, performances, story slams, theater, comedy, book clubs, demonstrations — CitySpace is the destination to be inspired, to be entertained, to be educated. Be part of the intimate audience or listen to the broadcast.

Jump down to our latest news! The Launch of AGNI 100 On Monday, October 28th, at 7:00 p.m., we will release AGNI 100 with in-person readings by Elisa Gabbert, Maggie Dietz, Lynette Ng, and Aidan Rooney, plus a musical performance by Gabriella Simpkins. Our release party will follow. Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Free and open to the public, and accessible. Past Events, 2024 The Launch of To Never Have Risked Our Lives: An AGNI Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing

Brookline Booksmith & AGNI celebrate 50 years of the magazine with a series of virtual events.

Brookline Booksmith & AGNI celebrate 50 years of the magazine with a series of virtual events.

Brookline Booksmith & AGNI celebrate 50 years of the magazine with a series of virtual events.