Séance So-and-so with your arms at your side — tiny bits of mercury in your mouth. true crime is never as disturbing as the podcast claims. so, someone doesn’t get out alive; big deal. I have an app on my iPhone that alerts me when there’s gunfire — West 4th and whatever – my stomach […]
from the tale in gray [second light after death]
where to let time fly. is the night still weighing on the day. school closed. your teachers jumped on and off stage like monkeys on a hot tin roof. hands banded behind their backs, they were kneeling down before a crowd that circled the school auditorium. a photo of the sick old great man was […]
Fence Editorial Guidelines and Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct for Fence Editors Following is a guide as agreed to by the Editorial Directors and Board of Fence Magazine and Fence Books, for editorial policies as of 2024. ♦ Fence editors will treat each submission with utmost respect and protect the confidentiality and identity of submitters. ♦ Submissions received and in-progress should […]
from the tale in gray [second light after death]
where to let time fly. is the night still weighing on the day. school closed. your teachers jumped on and off stage like monkeys on a hot tin roof. hands banded behind their backs, they were kneeling down before a crowd that circled the school auditorium. a photo of the sick old great […]
The Listening Rooms
BUT ALSO THIS — Correspondences for Etel (excerpts)
Untitled – Etel Adnan, 2014, oil on canvas, 35 x 27 cm. One image is always more than one image — Gerald Murnane Things don’t connect, they correspond — Jack Spicer PART THREE And then came the arrests. Came the tear gas, the percussion grenades, the pepper spray, the wooden bullets, the LRAD declaration of […]
Other places we learned religion
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/other-places-we-learned-religion.mp3 To listen to Afton read her work as below, click on the play button in the black bar above. To see a pdf preserving the horizontal layout and original lineation of the work, please click HERE. OTHER PLACES WE LEARNED RELIGION The color blue LinkedIn suggests that Criminal Cousin One is a kitchen designer, […]
Recent Titles from Fence Books and Fence Digital
Mopes: A Book of Poems in Three Acts by Kenneth Reveiz Straddling the wreckage of late capitalist America, the poems in Kenneth Reveiz’s MOPES arc urgently toward utopia—or at least they do their best. The intimate eros of liberated queerness is interrupted, undermined by a flood of dystopian American violence. The choice to fight for love and […]
Fence magazine issue #40
Fence Issue #40 Winter 2023 Poetry. Fiction. Translation. &. Other. Super-contemporary literary incitements since 1998. Shipping Mid-March 2023 To Libraries, stores, Subscribers, and Members ◊ ◊ ◊ F E A T U R I N G ◊ ◊ ◊ ♦ An Editor’s Note from Issue 40-41 Visiting Editor Edgar Garcia. […]
The 2023 Rae Armantrout Fence T-shirt
The 2023 Rae Armantrout Fence t-shirt, designed by Fence intern Cath Cai, features an excerpt from Armantrout’s poem “Falling (1)” as printed in the first issue of Fence in 1998. Receive yours with a $20 donation or higher. This link will take you to PayPal, where if you click “+Add special instructions to the seller,” […]
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