Number 35 / Spring 2019
Edgar Garcia / Tess Brown-Lavoie
Ariana Reines / Erica Hunt / Suzi Garcia
Blake Butler / Laura Sims / Wendy C. Ortiz
Rachel Levitsky / James Tate / Desirée Alvarez
Amy Lawless / Sam Truitt / David Blair
Leah Dworkin / Abby Minor / Bonnie Chau
Read a letter (of sorts)
from Fence editor Rebecca Wolff
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PUNDIT: What do you recall about the darkness? THE OLDEST LIVING ASTRONAUT: Absolutely everything. Between commercials for brain insurance, the only major news channel still remaining reports the discovery of a significant new planet: one, they say, that on its surface looks exactly like our own. It seems ridiculous at first, seeing photos so much like those we have come to know as Earth presented onscreen as somewhere else, somewhere unknown, and alongside infographics that explain its present distance of hundreds of millions of light years away from where we are; and yet the longer that we look and […]
Read More1. HI Hi, I’m a new self-driving car. I drove all the way to this poem. I love this poem b/c I ♥ collaborative spaces where team members can work in teams to innovate and discover applications. Hi, is it done yet? Can I touch it? I pray for the poem to get bigger & discover life- saving applications. Hi, hi team! Look, this is my team. The team is standing on a most amazing pile of garbage, the team has redecorated libraries for the future. Hi, I’m a new poet. I the poet am a team I’m applying to all […]
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Cooked Water
Something hard pressed to be stopped. Look. A train rolls by the window and the birds at home on the […]
Three Poems from Four Personal Addresses
It’s the door, and beyond it is the paradise of the heart. Our things—and everything is ours—are interchangeable. And the door is a door, the door of metonymy, the door of legend. A door to keep September gentle. A door that invites fields to begin their wheat.
Purple Berries
One day a child showed up in my house. He came up to my chin, not a baby at all. […]
