from True Confessions (and brief dreams) in a Time of Pandemic

By Boyer Rickel | August 9, 2020

Missionaries (1962) The doorbell would ring, and my mother and I would slink into the living room trying to muffle our giggles until, peeking out the kitchen window, we’d see the backs of their white short-sleeved shirts as they walked toward the street and their next stop. We’d been on their list my whole life, […]

Excerpt from Whorl

By Cort Day | May 18, 2020

The headache is the limit, the circle, the disk. The black horizon. Sometimes it’s a dull, red glow, soft latitudes of pain. Or a field of searing, orange craters. They burst open through the dark. Or, with a gentler hurt: tall, blowing vanes of magnetized color. Sometimes it’s still. Maybe then, it sleeps. When it […]

A Natural History of Cruising

By Christopher Schmidt | August 13, 2020

* * An attractive figure rounds the corner. Is he? Yes, very. Your gaze locks in his. The moment dilates. Take in the hooded eyes, the aquiline nose. Zero the body. You feel a flush of arousal, a stirring below. Your pulse grows palpable. The mouth wets but you can’t swallow. * * […]

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SCREEN SHOT: A NEW FENCE SERIES

Post Vision©

By Dalia Neis | June 22, 2020

Screen Shot is a space for writers to investigate the relationship between language and film, from narrative viewing experiences to Zoom meetings and Instagram stories. We are committed to discovering writers who use words as a tool for exploring the event of cinema, video, and the spectacle of our lives....

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FENCE BOOKS

Fence Books is scaled down through 2021 while the editor is committed to public service in her home city. During this time we are publishing The Ottoline Prize, and seeking fiscal sponsorship for our two other book prizes: The Fence Modern Poets Series and the Fence Modern Prize in Prose. Contact the editor with questions and ideas.

FENCE DIGITAL

Multimedia electronic poetry, fiction, and hybrid works that reify the emergent “thingness” of the digital

THE CONSTANT CRITIC

Timely Criticism and Reviews of Print and Digital Poetry.

ELECMENT

A place of variousness: creative-critical engagements with poetry and the poetry-adjacent arts

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