AGNI publishes poetry, short fiction, and essays featuring a new generation of writers and visual artists. Literature for literature's sake is not what AGNI is about. Rather, AGNI sees literature and the arts as part of a broad, ongoing cultural conversation that every society needs to remain vibrant and alive.

For thirty-five years, AGNI has brought its readers the best national and international writing from established as well as emerging writers. In 2001 PEN America awarded Founding Editor Askold Melnyczuk its lifetime achievement award for magazine editing, saying, "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" and "a beacon of international literary culture." Ha Jin (1999 National Book Award), Jhumpa Lahiri (2000 Pulitzer Prize), and Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted) are but a few who appeared in their pages first or early on, alongside already famous names such as Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, Derek Walcott, Robert Pinsky, and Sharon Olds. Housed at Boston University and now edited by essayist and literary critic Sven Birkerts, AGNI publishes two 240-page issues annually.

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