Fence Magazine & Books
@fencebooks.bsky.social
an independent 501c3 not-for-profit literary magazine & press publishing poetry, prose, art, criticism \ “new” books that age well + “old” books that feel “new”
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We’re truly delighted to share the cover of THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR by Kathryn Cowles (@kathryncowles.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series!
Cover design: Sharon DeGraw 💌
Pre-order today: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🌠
Cover design: Sharon DeGraw 💌
Pre-order today: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🌠
We’re honored & grateful to announce that Fence received a 10K grant from NYSCA to support our literary efforts in 2026!
Simultaneously, we recognize that this grant only funds less than 10% of our budget, and that we depend on you to sustain our continued publishing: fenceportal.org/support/. 💌
Simultaneously, we recognize that this grant only funds less than 10% of our budget, and that we depend on you to sustain our continued publishing: fenceportal.org/support/. 💌
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We’re honored & grateful to announce that Fence received a 10K grant from NYSCA to support our literary efforts in 2026!
Simultaneously, we recognize that this grant only funds less than 10% of our budget, and that we depend on you to sustain our continued publishing: fenceportal.org/support/. 💌
Simultaneously, we recognize that this grant only funds less than 10% of our budget, and that we depend on you to sustain our continued publishing: fenceportal.org/support/. 💌
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One of the more formally inventive entries in the autofiction canon, this 2023 release from @fencebooks.bsky.social challenged and delighted me. If you like reading oddball fiction about the art world, this is for you.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One of the more formally inventive entries in the autofiction canon, this 2023 release from @fencebooks.bsky.social challenged and delighted me. If you like reading oddball fiction about the art world, this is for you.
We’re so delighted to announce that wonderful poet and lovely Fence person Amy Beth Sisson will curate and edit a series of visual poetry for Fence’s online publication, Steaming! Look forward to these arrangements at fenceportal.org/steaming-2/. 🌠
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
We’re so delighted to announce that wonderful poet and lovely Fence person Amy Beth Sisson will curate and edit a series of visual poetry for Fence’s online publication, Steaming! Look forward to these arrangements at fenceportal.org/steaming-2/. 🌠
Gillian Osborne reviews Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer (Ed. Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, & Daniel Benjamin) for THE CONSTANT CRITIC...
Read more at: fencedigital.com/2025/11/17/c.... ✉️
Read more at: fencedigital.com/2025/11/17/c.... ✉️
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Gillian Osborne reviews Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer (Ed. Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, & Daniel Benjamin) for THE CONSTANT CRITIC...
Read more at: fencedigital.com/2025/11/17/c.... ✉️
Read more at: fencedigital.com/2025/11/17/c.... ✉️
…from Kathryn Cowles’s introduction to THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR. This winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize will be out in now just less than a month: Dec. 9th, 2025! @kathryncowles.bsky.social
Pre-order today at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... 🪽
Pre-order today at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... 🪽
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
…from Kathryn Cowles’s introduction to THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR. This winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize will be out in now just less than a month: Dec. 9th, 2025! @kathryncowles.bsky.social
Pre-order today at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... 🪽
Pre-order today at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... 🪽
I visited Duchess Coffee / Antidote Books in Brattleboro, Vermont earlier this week; Antidote Books honors an impressive selection of small press poetry in their inventory, including a few Fence books! Thank you for your warm welcome & lovely experience. 🍂
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November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I visited Duchess Coffee / Antidote Books in Brattleboro, Vermont earlier this week; Antidote Books honors an impressive selection of small press poetry in their inventory, including a few Fence books! Thank you for your warm welcome & lovely experience. 🍂
duchesscoffeeco.com ☕️
antidotebooks.com 📖
duchesscoffeeco.com ☕️
antidotebooks.com 📖
“This project has changed the way I walk through the city."
Read & observe Amanda Deutch’s words & cyanotypes; some feature poems from her forthcoming debut with Fence Books: new york ironweed, winner of the 2025 Ottoline Prize! 🌾
sonnetlandscapes.com/2025/10/21/b... 🪻
Read & observe Amanda Deutch’s words & cyanotypes; some feature poems from her forthcoming debut with Fence Books: new york ironweed, winner of the 2025 Ottoline Prize! 🌾
sonnetlandscapes.com/2025/10/21/b... 🪻
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“This project has changed the way I walk through the city."
Read & observe Amanda Deutch’s words & cyanotypes; some feature poems from her forthcoming debut with Fence Books: new york ironweed, winner of the 2025 Ottoline Prize! 🌾
sonnetlandscapes.com/2025/10/21/b... 🪻
Read & observe Amanda Deutch’s words & cyanotypes; some feature poems from her forthcoming debut with Fence Books: new york ironweed, winner of the 2025 Ottoline Prize! 🌾
sonnetlandscapes.com/2025/10/21/b... 🪻
From the archives: an excerpt of "From the Melody" by Tomaž Šalamun, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry.
Fence Winter/Spring 2022, pp. 99–100.
Read the full poem in our digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
Fence Winter/Spring 2022, pp. 99–100.
Read the full poem in our digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
From the archives: an excerpt of "From the Melody" by Tomaž Šalamun, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry.
Fence Winter/Spring 2022, pp. 99–100.
Read the full poem in our digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
Fence Winter/Spring 2022, pp. 99–100.
Read the full poem in our digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
✨ OPEN CALL FOR TRANSLATION SUBMISSIONS! ✨ Fence is open for submissions for issue number 44, & today we’re highlighting the opportunity for translators to submit their work to this open call!
Our submission window closes in two days: on November 1st, 2025.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌌
Our submission window closes in two days: on November 1st, 2025.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌌
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
✨ OPEN CALL FOR TRANSLATION SUBMISSIONS! ✨ Fence is open for submissions for issue number 44, & today we’re highlighting the opportunity for translators to submit their work to this open call!
Our submission window closes in two days: on November 1st, 2025.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌌
Our submission window closes in two days: on November 1st, 2025.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌌
From the Fence archives: two excerpts from Clayton Eshleman’s “The Magical Sadness of Omar Caceres,” Fence Spring/Summer 2004, pp. 13–14.
Access the full poem via our Exact Editions digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
Access the full poem via our Exact Editions digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
From the Fence archives: two excerpts from Clayton Eshleman’s “The Magical Sadness of Omar Caceres,” Fence Spring/Summer 2004, pp. 13–14.
Access the full poem via our Exact Editions digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
Access the full poem via our Exact Editions digital archive: shop.exacteditions.com/fence
We’re truly delighted to share the cover of THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR by Kathryn Cowles (@kathryncowles.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series!
Cover design: Sharon DeGraw 💌
Pre-order today: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🌠
Cover design: Sharon DeGraw 💌
Pre-order today: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🌠
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We’re truly delighted to share the cover of THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR by Kathryn Cowles (@kathryncowles.bsky.social), winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series!
Cover design: Sharon DeGraw 💌
Pre-order today: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🌠
Cover design: Sharon DeGraw 💌
Pre-order today: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 🌠
Happy publication day to the wonderful Sara Jaffe: HURRICANE ENVY (Rescue Press) features “Dogpatch” (FENCE Spring/Summer 2014) & “Earth to You” (Fence Steaming, October 2024)! ⛅️
fenceportal.org/earth-to-you... 🌎
fenceportal.org/subscribe/ 👀
rescuepress.co/books/p/hurr... 📖
fenceportal.org/earth-to-you... 🌎
fenceportal.org/subscribe/ 👀
rescuepress.co/books/p/hurr... 📖
October 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Happy publication day to the wonderful Sara Jaffe: HURRICANE ENVY (Rescue Press) features “Dogpatch” (FENCE Spring/Summer 2014) & “Earth to You” (Fence Steaming, October 2024)! ⛅️
fenceportal.org/earth-to-you... 🌎
fenceportal.org/subscribe/ 👀
rescuepress.co/books/p/hurr... 📖
fenceportal.org/earth-to-you... 🌎
fenceportal.org/subscribe/ 👀
rescuepress.co/books/p/hurr... 📖
Fence Steaming just published the wonderful poet/artist M.L. Martin’s “Gilcrease Exhibition/Expedition Map”... 👀
fenceportal.org/gilcrease-ex...
fenceportal.org/gilcrease-ex...
October 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Fence Steaming just published the wonderful poet/artist M.L. Martin’s “Gilcrease Exhibition/Expedition Map”... 👀
fenceportal.org/gilcrease-ex...
fenceportal.org/gilcrease-ex...
We’re excited & honored to announce that Lit New York State awarded Fence a 2025 Advancement Regrant to improve our website capacity, accessibility, design, & technology integrations!
www.litnys.org/advancement 🌦️
fenceportal.org 👀
www.litnys.org/advancement 🌦️
fenceportal.org 👀
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We’re excited & honored to announce that Lit New York State awarded Fence a 2025 Advancement Regrant to improve our website capacity, accessibility, design, & technology integrations!
www.litnys.org/advancement 🌦️
fenceportal.org 👀
www.litnys.org/advancement 🌦️
fenceportal.org 👀
Read Ray McDaniel’s 2017 review of Derrick Austin’s TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions Ltd., 2016) on Fence Digital.
& look for a review from the Constant Critic—republished from the archive, or just published—every other Friday this fall!
fencedigital.com/2025/10/10/c... 🍁
& look for a review from the Constant Critic—republished from the archive, or just published—every other Friday this fall!
fencedigital.com/2025/10/10/c... 🍁
October 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Read Ray McDaniel’s 2017 review of Derrick Austin’s TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions Ltd., 2016) on Fence Digital.
& look for a review from the Constant Critic—republished from the archive, or just published—every other Friday this fall!
fencedigital.com/2025/10/10/c... 🍁
& look for a review from the Constant Critic—republished from the archive, or just published—every other Friday this fall!
fencedigital.com/2025/10/10/c... 🍁
Our warm, tremendous congratulations to lovely and visionary Fence person, Amy Beth Sisson, who won Lambda Literary's 2025 J. Michael Samuel Prize, which honors emerging LGBTQ writers over the age of 50!
lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/5-qu... 🍄
lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/5-qu... 🍄
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Our warm, tremendous congratulations to lovely and visionary Fence person, Amy Beth Sisson, who won Lambda Literary's 2025 J. Michael Samuel Prize, which honors emerging LGBTQ writers over the age of 50!
lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/5-qu... 🍄
lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/5-qu... 🍄
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“There was laughter in the night, an unseasonable cold, and the beautiful sadness of lost roads and pine trees. I might tell Frank that I too have always lived near water and have seen the moon like a dead man in the river.” —Christopher Chambers, “What About This” @fencebooks.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“There was laughter in the night, an unseasonable cold, and the beautiful sadness of lost roads and pine trees. I might tell Frank that I too have always lived near water and have seen the moon like a dead man in the river.” —Christopher Chambers, “What About This” @fencebooks.bsky.social
We’re pleased to feature Adam Munsey Tobin reading his poetry at the Fence issue number 42 launch party on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at the Poets House in New York City. Find Adam’s poems on pages 27 through 29 of Fence issue number 42!
Find the full recording on fenceportal.org… ⛅️
Find the full recording on fenceportal.org… ⛅️
October 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We’re pleased to feature Adam Munsey Tobin reading his poetry at the Fence issue number 42 launch party on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at the Poets House in New York City. Find Adam’s poems on pages 27 through 29 of Fence issue number 42!
Find the full recording on fenceportal.org… ⛅️
Find the full recording on fenceportal.org… ⛅️
Fence is open for submissions for issue number 44, & today we’re highlighting the opportunity for writers/etc. to submit their work to “Other”!
Jason Zuzga writes this working definition / list of possible "Other" material in BEST OF FENCE... 🦩
fence.submittable.com/submit 🏞️
Jason Zuzga writes this working definition / list of possible "Other" material in BEST OF FENCE... 🦩
fence.submittable.com/submit 🏞️
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Fence is open for submissions for issue number 44, & today we’re highlighting the opportunity for writers/etc. to submit their work to “Other”!
Jason Zuzga writes this working definition / list of possible "Other" material in BEST OF FENCE... 🦩
fence.submittable.com/submit 🏞️
Jason Zuzga writes this working definition / list of possible "Other" material in BEST OF FENCE... 🦩
fence.submittable.com/submit 🏞️
Fence received this notice from Miranda González at AWP, & we’re submitting each and every Fence book to www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com to ensure that, if Anthropic unlawfully mined any Fence books to train their AI, Fence authors will receive compensation from the settlement.
September 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Fence received this notice from Miranda González at AWP, & we’re submitting each and every Fence book to www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com to ensure that, if Anthropic unlawfully mined any Fence books to train their AI, Fence authors will receive compensation from the settlement.
Fence is open for submissions for issue number 44, & today we’re highlighting the opportunity for translators to submit their work to this open call!
Translation Editor Cole Swensen will consider & select translation submissions for publication, focusing on poetry.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌞
Translation Editor Cole Swensen will consider & select translation submissions for publication, focusing on poetry.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌞
September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fence is open for submissions for issue number 44, & today we’re highlighting the opportunity for translators to submit their work to this open call!
Translation Editor Cole Swensen will consider & select translation submissions for publication, focusing on poetry.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌞
Translation Editor Cole Swensen will consider & select translation submissions for publication, focusing on poetry.
fence.submittable.com/submit 🌞
“And there is here a productive kind of disharmony [...] a making of good trouble..."
Read Adam Day’s excellent review of Jennifer Nelson’s ON THE WAY TO THE PAINTINGS OF FOREST ROBBERIES for Action, Spectacle! 💡 action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
Read Adam Day’s excellent review of Jennifer Nelson’s ON THE WAY TO THE PAINTINGS OF FOREST ROBBERIES for Action, Spectacle! 💡 action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“And there is here a productive kind of disharmony [...] a making of good trouble..."
Read Adam Day’s excellent review of Jennifer Nelson’s ON THE WAY TO THE PAINTINGS OF FOREST ROBBERIES for Action, Spectacle! 💡 action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
Read Adam Day’s excellent review of Jennifer Nelson’s ON THE WAY TO THE PAINTINGS OF FOREST ROBBERIES for Action, Spectacle! 💡 action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
We're so grateful that Poetry Daily chose Jericho Jennifer Nelson's expansive & intimate "So Grateful I Turn to the Art" for their September 14, 2025 feature! 🌲 @henkaipantomime.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social
spare.poems.com/poem/so-grateful-i-turn-to-the-art ⛅️
spare.poems.com/poem/so-grateful-i-turn-to-the-art ⛅️
September 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We're so grateful that Poetry Daily chose Jericho Jennifer Nelson's expansive & intimate "So Grateful I Turn to the Art" for their September 14, 2025 feature! 🌲 @henkaipantomime.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social
spare.poems.com/poem/so-grateful-i-turn-to-the-art ⛅️
spare.poems.com/poem/so-grateful-i-turn-to-the-art ⛅️
FENCE & FUTUREPOEM will share table 327 at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st from 10 AM through 6 PM! @futurepoem.bsky.social
Find this festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall & surrounding venues; it's free & open to the public! See you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org 🌦️
Find this festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall & surrounding venues; it's free & open to the public! See you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org 🌦️
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
FENCE & FUTUREPOEM will share table 327 at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st from 10 AM through 6 PM! @futurepoem.bsky.social
Find this festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall & surrounding venues; it's free & open to the public! See you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org 🌦️
Find this festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall & surrounding venues; it's free & open to the public! See you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org 🌦️
Amanda Deutch’s NEW YORK IRONWEED won the 2025 Ottoline Prize, & is forthcoming from Fence Books this winter. 🌀
Pre-order NEW YORK IRONWEED, here: www.cbsd.com/9798989978526/new-york-ironweed, & look forward to our cover reveal this month! 🌾
Pre-order NEW YORK IRONWEED, here: www.cbsd.com/9798989978526/new-york-ironweed, & look forward to our cover reveal this month! 🌾
September 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Amanda Deutch’s NEW YORK IRONWEED won the 2025 Ottoline Prize, & is forthcoming from Fence Books this winter. 🌀
Pre-order NEW YORK IRONWEED, here: www.cbsd.com/9798989978526/new-york-ironweed, & look forward to our cover reveal this month! 🌾
Pre-order NEW YORK IRONWEED, here: www.cbsd.com/9798989978526/new-york-ironweed, & look forward to our cover reveal this month! 🌾