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,” […]
Fence Social
Fence Magazine and BooksFence is committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate with, and bedevil all the systems that bring new writing to light. A robust history of FENCE awaits you below on this page, from initial spark as an idea to its […]
The Fence Calendar
An ever-updated calendar of all significant dates and times for all those who find themselves anywhere closely or loosely in the orbit of Fence. You can subscribe to this google calendar feed as well — just click or tap this sentence. ↓ ∞ ↓ ∞ ↓ ∞ ↓ ∞ ↓ ∞ ↓ ∞ ↓ To […]
Photowali Didi
If you listen closely, you can hear a frail ringing noise, like when the television would run out of programming late at night in the ‘80s. Only much softer. It keeps me up. At two in the morning the choral music starts again. My mother complained about it at lunch yesterday. She said, ‘the mosque […]
Secret Fence Page for Thieves….
To receive your discounted copy of Thieves, please head to PayPal and send a payment to Fence Magazine, Incorporated @fencefencebooks for $9.50, including the phrase mentioned in the email you received as a note where it says “what’s this for.” Your discounted copy will be sent to the address provided to us by PayPal.
A Fence Interview with Debut Novelist Valerie Werder, author of Thieves
On the eve of the publication of THIEVES: A NOVEL, author Valerie Werder and Fence Editorial Co-Director Jason Zuzga connected to discuss the origins and complex life of this work. JZ: You were working in the art world when you wrote Thieves—how did your experiences lead to the writing of the novel? VW: I wrote […]
Thieves
Valerie is an art worker in the big city. Literally the product of an American childhood in a small place where she learned to value objects and their promise, Valerie now lives and works in a storm of things, many of which are commodities—including herself. While unhappily but compliantly selling paintings at a high-pressure art […]
Alternative Arrangements
This essay also appears in print on page 211 in the Forum pages of Issue #40. There is a form, that is not form, and that can be found in many collections of American poetry. This not-form is the arrangement. Rooted in the Romantic fragment, French prose poetry, palimpsestic modernism, Benjamin’s Arcades, Queneau’s Cent […]
A History of Fence
Including Essays by FENCE Editors and Selected Articles and Interviews In 2009, FENCE published a two-volume anthology entitled A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS. They are available, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, through Small Press Distribution. The editors of FENCE up to that point in time contributed essays about their experiences working on the magazine, all of […]
from Logophobe
To download and read “from logophobe” by the Blunt Research Group–as intended by the author(s)–with correct pagination and lineation as a pdf from the Fence issue #40 forum, please click on the below blue text. Lower-quality (in terms of the pdf) images can be seen below the link. blunt-proofs-bluntresearch-40
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