New from Fence BOOKS
Phantom Captain
by Kim Rosenfield
Selected for the 2023 Ottoline Prize
- " . . . what does it mean that I can't take a lifetime
- in this aggravating acceleration
- to say what I must"
New from Fence BOOKS
Thieves: A Novel
by Valerie Werder
Listen to the author read from the opening pages:
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The 2023 Fence / Rae Armantrout T-shirt
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But Also This—Correspondences for Etel (Excerpts)
David Buuck | March 1, 2024
And then came the arrests. Came the tear gas, the percussion grenades, the pepper spray, the wooden bullets, the LRAD declaration of unlawful assembly, the kettling and the batons, came the bicycle scouts having returned from recon to sound the alarm, into the sidestreets, over the fence, be like water, the mad rush of those escaping and those holding the line, shields to the front, came the unmarked vans, the snatch and grab and the zip ties, the whole fucking apparatus, came the smoke from the fire inside the museum gift shop, came the press...
Through January, we will be gathering your responses. Once we have processed and assembled all, we will announce the publication of the collection on our website so you may come and browse.
This could be a poem, a story, a novel, an essay, a video, a movie, a garden, a meal, an experience at a museum, a song, a performance, a photograph. It might be something new or hybrid, an "other" that does not fit nicely into any such container words.
NOTE: FENCE REVEL(ATIONS) isn't a place for self-promotion but a place where you might be a guide for another toward a work they might not otherwise encounter.
We hope you will contribute to the project, and, in so doing, be able to find something among the suggestions to begin the new year with hope and momentum.
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