A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.

You can familiarize yourself with the magazine by ordering a recent print issue or by perusing the writing that appears here. This site includes selected pieces from our decades of print issues and everything we’ve published at AGNI Online since its inauguration in 2002.

A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.

AGNI is an American literary magazine founded in 1972 that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, interviews, and artwork twice a year in print and weekly online from its home at Boston University.

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Publisher’s description: AGNI discovers stories, poems, and essays that map our pressured interiority and respond in necessary ways to the bedeviled state of the world. Even as we focus on writers most haven’t heard of, seven of our contributors have gone on …

2025年2月2日 · At AGNI we see literature and the arts as integral to the broad, engaged conversation that underwrites a vital society. Our poets, storytellers, essayists, translators, and artists lift a mirror to nature and the social world.

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 ...

AGNI is a literary magazine housed at Boston University and known “among readers around the world,” as the writers group PEN put it, “for publishing important new writers early in their careers, many of them translated into English for the first time.”

2024年9月5日 · “Known for publishing important new writers early in their careers” (PEN), AGNI discovers stories, poems, and essays that map our pressured interiority and respond in necessary ways to the bedeviled state of the world.