AGNI (magazine)  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. Its coeditors are Sven Birkerts and William Pierce. "AGNI" was founded in 1972 at Antioch College by former undergraduate Askold Melnyczuk. After a brief residency in New Jersey, "AGNI" moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Sharon Dunn joined Melnyczuk as co-editor in 1977. From 1980 to 1987 Dunn was the magazine's editor, first in Cambridge, then for three years in Western Massachusetts. In fall of 1987 Melnyczuk resumed editorship, and "AGNI" relocated to Boston University, later moving into the former offices of "The Partisan Review" at 236 Bay State Road. In July 2002 Sven Birkerts assumed the editorship, and after fifteen years as senior editor, William Pierce joined Birkerts as coeditor in 2019. The magazine receives support from the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, "AGNI" relies on funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mass Cultural Council, and individual donors. "AGNI" publishes two 240-page print issues annually. Each issue includes thirty to forty contributors, with a minimum print run of 2,500. "AGNI" has subscribers across the United States and in many other countries. It is carried by university and public libraries, and is distributed to independent and chain bookstores within the U.S. and Canada. "AGNI Online," an electronic extension of the print magazine, features new writing each week: reviews, blog posts, and interviews, as well as a small selection of each print issue's stories, poems, and essays. "AGNI" has featured writers from Afghanistan, Mexico, Uganda, South Africa, India, Malaysia, China, South Korea, Egypt, Russia, Nigeria, Djibouti, The Gambia, Syria, Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Brazil, and many other countries, along with translations from Urdu, Dutch, Latin, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Chinese, Turkish, Greek and ancient Greek, Hebrew, Albanian, Old English, Polish, Italian, Slovenian, French, Latvian, and more. According to the magazine's website, “At AGNI we see literature and the arts as integral to the broad, engaged conversation that underwrites a vital society.