AGNI

http://www.bu.edu/agni/

Magazine

Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Translation, Visual Art

1972

Boston, MA

Sven Birkerts

Editor

Our mission statement: AGNI is an arts organization committed to nurturing a vital cultural conversation by (1) publishing a twice-yearly magazine and twice-monthly web magazine that test the edges of contemporary literature; (2) searching for and supporting emerging writers across a full spectrum of identities; (3) developing a cosmopolitan perspective through emphasis on translation; and (4) building and sustaining an audience for this work and hosting public events to foster community. More conversationally: In awarding the founder of AGNI a lifetime achievement award for magazine editing, PEN American Center wrote, "Among readers around the world, AGNI is known for publishing important new writers early in their careers… AGNI has become one of America's, and the world's, most significant literary journals." Ha Jin (1999 National Book Award), Jhumpa Lahiri (2000 Pulitzer Prize), and Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted) are a few who appeared in our pages first or early on, alongside already-famous names such as Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, and Seamus Heaney. In 2014 Patrick Modiano became the sixth AGNI writer to go on to win the Nobel Prize, and in 2016 the Pulitzer in poetry went to Peter Balakian, whose work has appeared in the magazine more than a dozen times. His winning collection, like dozens of new books each year, contains writing that we’re proud to have published first. AGNI was founded in 1972 and is now housed at Boston University.

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