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.

After a brief residency in New Jersey, AGNI moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Sharon Dunn joined Melnyczuk as co-editor in 1977.

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 addition, AGNI relies on funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mass Cultural Council, and individual donors.

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.

[3] 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.

[6] One of them, Seamus Heaney, wrote that AGNI is “a reader’s delight, a standard achieved, a balance held between service to new writers and fidelity to what’s what in writing itself.” Other prominent writers who have debuted work of note in AGNI include Jhumpa Lahiri, Ha Jin, Mark Doty, Susanna Kaysen, Glyn Maxwell, Sven Birkerts, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Joyce Carol Oates, Derek Walcott, Russell Banks, Brock Clarke, E. C. Osondu, and Cynthia Huntington.