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, […]
The Escombros Bug
It was November 1999, 78 degrees, and dust clung to each drop of sweat that seeped from Gloria’s forehead as she forced a shovel into stubborn earth. She felt like Pete’s lackey, digging for the bomb shelter. The site reeked of ammonia–her husband had softened the caliche with buckets of his own piss before taking […]
The Fence Shop
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The Representation of Light Penetrating Mud
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Representation-of-Mud-Spanish-and-English-Alternating.mp3 Absence gives form to all shapes—Theodora Blüht Sand and mountains in the center. The future rises before the fjord. Mercilessly. Stones in the cemetery—the expectation. Shadows, swifter than life. Genuflection. Skin in a symbolic state. The brow performing in a muscular cavity. Bird […]
Kingdom of the Wounded
Melody and Erica found the purple castle the night before, hidden in some cedar trees, while they were on acid. Melody’s ex-boyfriend Amos was in there, they said. Amos had been dead over a year. His blood still stained the beige carpet in Dario’s house, where we bought our drugs. We told each other that […]
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,” […]
Duty So Great
On the basis of what I took to be his vandalized spirit, he could have been my father. “Can you help me?” he said. “Follow me,” I said, absent the intonation of a leader. I wanted to go to the top—but this man, he looked as though he had fallen. (On his jeaned knee, some […]
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