Listen to Sarah Minor read “The Listening Rooms.” https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Minor_The-Listening-Rooms.mp3 69. The Meaning of Night From her front porch, the woman sees a man walking towards her with an exceptionally tall head. He is wearing a backpack and moving along the sidewalk with a head that is five times the height of a human skull. The […]

I wrote these three poems, and others like them, in collaboration with la smorfia, a southern Italian dream interpretation system. The titles are created using images from recent dreams and the corresponding numbers, as indicated in la smorfia. Instead of using the numbers to play the lotto (the traditional use, which I’ve tried unluckily), the numbers here […]

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Alvarez-Return-to-Tetaroba-Audio-3_15_23-2.13-PM.mp3         w. the burden of history Roberto & I travelled deeper into Mexico | an overnight bus ride from Tucson through Sonora & into Sinaloa | stopping finally at El Fuerte the largest city in the area | & only miles away from Tetaroba el rancho | we took a taxi from el Fuerte to […]

1. Cleavage of              pre-linguistic                             intuitionharnessed bybardistry                   on task for‘the environment’ * People can? or can’t?             choosea sex * Nuclear power (not bombs)– back […]

This is a companion to Fence Issue #40’s forum in print, adding additional writing and thinking to the conversation. Here you can find: “Alternative Arrangements” by Andrea Brady Selections from “The Garden” by Julie Carr “Return to Tetaroba” by Steve Alvarez “The End of Writing / Things I Forgot I Wrote” by Daniel Borzutzky “Inventory” […]