In a time of fiefdom and hubris and fill-in-your-blank, it is good to read AGNI.

If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.

"Gaza—We Are Not All One" by Najlaa Attallah (trans. from the Arabic by Andrew Leber) is our latest Dispatch from Palestine. Read it here 👇

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day

Let us speak of this & help @robertmacfarland.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @tempestwilliams.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @elizkolbert.bsky.social Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

We’re alarmed and outraged that two of our key partners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna, have been arrested in Jerusalem for the crime of selling books.

The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by Israeli security forces. Mahmoud and Ahmad Mina have been taken to custody. Anyone who’s visited Palestine knows how serious this is for freedom of speech and cultural organising in Palestine and Israel.

Guys, WIRED has been scooping every other publication and has been bravely covering this assault on our government, our Constitution, and on the rule of law. They are worth your attention and support.

Well this was satisfying.

Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act. She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Thanks to the Museum of Fine Arts for asking me to write this essay, response to Rana Begum’s site-specific installation. www.mfa.org/article/2025...

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Grateful to have this poem featured on @poetrydaily.bsky.social ! Originally published in @agnimagazine.bsky.social

My land is renowned for the anemone; its bright red heralds the spring. In a realm of bright blossoms and rebirth, the sun ravels its golden chains across the sea, playing mischievous games with the waves. ~"Anemones" by Haya Abu Nasser is our latest Dispatch from Palestine

Or rather, warplanes split the air and the dawn slumped in flame. Or rather, you can steal bodies without being called a thief. - A Gazan Child Plays on an Occupied Beach by Ayesha Asad @agnimagazine.bsky.social

👀 ICYMI 👀 Our online Submission Manager closes from December 15th through January 15th. Looking for a reason to submit? This is it! Send us your work by TOMORROW at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time. https://buff.ly/3BiRUyd

1/? In 2015, a Syrian military photographer, code named Caesar, escaped the country with tens of thousands of photos he'd smuggled from a notoriously sadistic prison... www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o...

Congratulations to AGNI contributor Sofi Stambo, winner of the 2024 @literaryhub.bsky.social Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories, A Bunch of Savages, to be published in spring 2026. https://buff.ly/4fzeZeV

⚠️ AGNI's submission period closes in one week! ⚠️ We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” Learn more here👇

To our new followers: we've been organizing for Palestinian families in Gaza since July of this year. We are closing in on 2,000 workshop participants (since we started keeping track). Can you help us achieve our goal this long weekend of 100 new sign-ups? We have 12 workshops and 1 trans. consult ⬇️

This powerhouse poem by DeeSoul Carson will blast off your Monday (any day, really!): agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/good-...

Do you know what Project Esther is? It’s a plan to crush Palestine solidarity, smear activists as terrorists, and revive McCarthyism—wrapped in the guise of fighting antisemitism. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...

Follow and check out workshops by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , sign up to do a workshop, or visit their online bookstore in partnership w/ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social !

Today marks day 60 of Laila Soueif's hunger strike and day 20 of our consecutive one-day hunger strikes in solidarity with her. Today I start a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with Laila, a 68-year-old Math professor and one of the revolutionary icons of Egypt’s left. 🧵

Amazon workers in 20 countries are going on strike on Black Friday. Don’t cross the picket line.

Framing matters. It’s not a “refugee crisis”, it’s a humanitarian crisis. Refugees don’t create the problem, inhumanity does.

Hello everyone. This is mosab abu toha. I had this account months ago and i will start posting here soon. Please spread the word.

This era is strange because it is both socially/culturally regressive, yet technologically accelerationist. Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal. I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.

Each cabinet pick is a new fresh hell so here’s a poem from @agnimagazine.bsky.social 100 (!) about birds’ nests made from detritus, extreme weather, + swimming at summer camp. Remember ‘buddy check’? Let’s re-implement buddy check for the next few years maybe for, like, everything? #ecopoetry

AGNI has landed & we see blue skies ahead! 💙🌤️ We invite our contributors to comment & share the issue(s) of the magazine where our skyline can find your work!👇

The brown hen is blown toward the chopping block and the red-handled ax. The sea is rubbed bare in spots, the sky El Greco blue between the forking clouds. ~from "Vendaval" by Jennifer Barber AGNI 47 & 56

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

Since the Cercador Prize isn’t here yet, I’ll do the honors… The committee awards the 2024 prize to Thomas Bunstead for his translation of ‘The Book of All Loves’ by Agustín Fernández Mallo, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

everyone say hi to @agnimagazine.bsky.social !! add us to all yr lit mag lists !!

AGNI Magazine is on Blue Sky! I love these lines from Paisley Rekdal's poem, "My Brother": "I want a brother to walk with me now through these woods, to stare with me into Death’s eyes, those glassy, winking flames." Read the full poem here: agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/my-br...

@agnimagazine.bsky.social is now here! give ‘em (us) a follow! 🔥

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

"For the first time in U.S. history, there will be a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel." Contact your Senators ASAP to ask them to support Senator Sanders's resolution to block a $20 billion weapons shipments to Israel. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/ema...

This is happening now in Beirut. X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.

Now boycott Tesla.

Media-making is a key facet of effective movements--AND we're entering an even more dangerous time for media-makers. We (Lara Witt & I) wrote about some ways to prepare, from ramping up media literacy, to uplifting movement history & creativity, to relationship-building. truthout.org/articles/her...

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. —Robert Hass #fromthearchive poems.com/poem/meditat...

Muting the cynical forecasters because what is it good for but getting you to stop doing something you need to do? Why tell me no one is going to do anything about X or Y? Unless you want me to stop. Because you also want to stop. Which I don’t want.

Nasser Rabah (one of the winners of our Flash Fiction prize + the author of the beautiful poem "Amjad" + a funny sweet person), has a book forthcoming from City Lights. You can pre-order the book directly from the publisher at a 30% discount: citylights.com/general-poet...