Amy Hempel, Ravi Shankar, Holly Pettit, and Joshua Gidding will read to launch AGNI 70 on Tuesday, December 8th, at 7:00 p.m. A release party follows. Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Comm Ave., Boston. Free and open to the public.
Poetry Daily recently featured Robert Bense’s poem “Morandi,” first published in AGNI 69.
For the fifth year in a row, an AGNI Online story has been named one of the Top Ten Online Stories of the year by storySouth! Read Steinur Bell’s “The Whale Hunter.”
Bruce Smith’s poem “Devotion: Fly” (AGNI 67) and Lia Purpura’s essay “Two Experiments and a Coda” (AGNI 68) have won Pushcart Prizes! They will be reprinted in the 2010 anthology, Pushcart Prize XXXIV.
Eleanor Henderson’s story “The Farms” (AGNI 68) will be reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 2009.
Helen Wickes’s poem “The World As You Left It” will be reprinted in The Best of the Web 2009 (Dzanc Books).
Tom Sleigh’s poem “At the Pool” (AGNI 65) and Derek Walcott’s poem “A Sea-Change” (AGNI 67) will be reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2009. “A Sea-Change” was also reprinted in the October 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Founding Editor Askold Melnyczuk’s most recent novel, The House of Widows, has won the Editor’s Choice Award from the American Library Association as one of the outstanding books of 2008!
Harrison Solow’s essay “Bendithion,” accompanied by a music CD in AGNI 66, is reprinted in the 2009 Pushcart Prize anthology. Six other AGNI pieces receive Special Mention: Peter LaSalle’s story “Mendoza-Burke’s Reform,” Lia Purpura’s essay “The Lustres,” and Kenneth Wong’s story “Movie Nights in Rangoon,” from AGNI 65, and from AGNI 66, Margo Berdeshevsky’s story “Pas de Deux, à Trois,” Scott Diel’s essay “69° North 33° East: Running from the Russians,” and Stephen O’Connor’s essay “Milosz’s Choice.”
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