Fence Magazine and Books

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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POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Collaborative poetry practice improves voice and agile thinking. You can concretely support Fence’s work with 1$ or more. https://t.co/uYouyKCA9P $60 + receives bright butter-yellow letterpress broadside: More: https://t.co/sNPeJzjua7

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SEEKING fearless writers & readers. Support Fence with a few tax-deductible dollars during our year-end fundraising drive: https://t.co/uYouyKCA9P Given the looming Tr*** shenanigans in DC, nonprofits like Fence need your support as they bravely enter the mouth of the shark.

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POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Poetic practice (writers+readers) improves voice & agile thinking. Help Fence survive 2025 w 1$ or more here: https://t.co/uYouyKC2kh ($60+ donors get letterpress broadside w "Kugel Exercises" signed by Wayne Koestenbaum.) https://t.co/nMJefDI0tU

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POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Poetic practice (writers+readers) improves voice & agile thinking. Help Fence survive 2025 w 1$ or more here: https://t.co/uYouyKC2kh ($60+ donors get letterpress broadside w "Kugel Exercises" signed by Wayne Koestenbaum.) https://t.co/nMJefDI0tU

[Fence Magazine and Books @FenceBooks]

SEEKING fearless writers & readers. Support Fence with a few tax-deductible dollars during our year-end fundraising drive: https://t.co/uYouyKCA9P Given the looming Tr*** shenanigans in DC, nonprofits like Fence need your support as they bravely enter the mouth of the shark.

[Fence Magazine and Books @FenceBooks]

POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Collaborative poetry practice improves voice and agile thinking. You can concretely support Fence’s work with 1$ or more. https://t.co/uYouyKCA9P $60 + receives bright butter-yellow letterpress broadside: More: https://t.co/sNPeJzjua7

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Fence says: POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Collaborative poetry practice improves voice and promotes agile thinking. Support Fence’s work: Step right up here, donate a few tax-deductible dollars:https://t.co/uYouyKCA9P New Wayne Koestenbaum broadside HERE:https://t.co/sNPeJzjua7

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Help keep Fence afloat in the sea of words—Aid Fence’s efforts here: https://t.co/uYouyKCA9P 1$ and up welcome and essential. Donors at $60 or more receive our new bright butter-yellow letterpress broadside featuring poetry by Wayne Koestenbaum. https://t.co/4LtsA4cHUk

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KEEP the Language Acrobatic. SEEKING adventurous writers and fearless readers. Please consider donating a few (tax-deductible) dollars or many: https://t.co/uYouyKCA9P Given what’s coming in DC, little nonprofits like Fence need your support more than ever.

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The Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize is OPEN for submissions through the end of this month, or until we receive 700 submissions! 🐚

SUBMIT & read more at https://t.co/HNn5vczgFM! 📖

[The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation @ditrapanofdn]

"You just may not feel like it yes you just don’t feel like it. I’ll be waiting yes I’ve been waiting. I’ll wait. I’m right here."

Beautiful new writing by @walt_knows_best in @FenceBooks https://t.co/HV5O497bT8

[J.D. Hosemann @J_D_Hosemann]

Pleasures prove

[🫧 @emily_sipiora]

I want to be loved like a Walt John Pearce story

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"It will be fine yes it will be fine. Don’t leave yet yes not yet yes not yet. I won’t leave yet not yet yes not yet will you stay a while yes will you stay a while."

Read “Bird Song,” a new story by @waltjohnpearce.

Up now on Fence Steaming: https://t.co/zPE3wsQK07

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COVER REVEAL! ✨ Jennifer Nelson’s On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, winner of the 2024 Ottoline Prize, is available for pre-order now at https://t.co/KctkCeY69K! Out on January 28, 2025.

Cover design by Sharon DeGraw. 🔭

https://t.co/cQvWrN76nY 📖

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FENCE is open for poetry translation submissions through TODAY, November 8 at midnight Eastern, 11:00 PM Central, 9:00 PM Pacific, 2:00 AM in Buenos Aires, 6:00 AM in Algiers & Ljubljana, 7:00 AM in Beirut, 8:00 AM in Nairobi, 3:00 PM in Beijing... 📖

https://t.co/96bxzOBhOm 💫

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Digital Editor @NikSlackman_ speaking with issue 41 contributor Nathan Dragon of @B_Arrangements 💙

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"His narrators daydream themselves into boxers, pumpkins, and drowning victims. Parakeets die like bats, and laborers only know they exist when their workplace’s punch-in clock confirms: 'IN AT ALL.'"

@NikSlackman_ interviews Nathan Dragon

https://t.co/0a5ObUco5U

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Today. 🗳️

(I constructed this ballot box with Amy Sara Carroll’s “Ballad of the Ballot” on p. 76, 77, & 78 of Fence issue number 41.) 📝

https://t.co/4lVrjCXLkA

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“But as I write this I am not a missing person. I am a dreaming person, a thinking person, a speaking person..."

A third post re “the missing pers” of Fence issue number 41. 📖

(I am also a voting person, and I hope you are too. - Lydia, Associate Publicist)