This essay also appears in print in the Forum pages of Issue #40. Mono-Sectoral Poetic Myopia If we put together a pie chart graph indicating the percentage of economic sectors given expression in poetry journals, presses, conferences, prize dispensations, there would be very scant representation from, say, the service industry, or manufacturing, homecare, construction, retail, […]

The Outhouse Biography repeats itself, at first in a stutter then as an obsession. I am one of the many diasporic gophers: I stick my head from tunnels of another world, dig in curves, in semi-circles, in tunnels shaped like letters – these, here. The trouble with biography is its starting point – the one […]

In 2022, we were able to accomplish the following: »» Published Fence issue #39 and paid all contributors $50 each. Prepared Fence issue is #40, ready to be transmitted to the printer the first week of January.  »» Began a new dedicated translation section of Fence and invited submissions. »» Created the Visiting Editor position, […]

A Brief Introduction to the History, Mission, & Current State of Affairs at  Fence Magazine & Fence Books Inc. 501c3 In Vice, Blake Butler has written: “[In] each issue of Fence…there’s always something to befuddle you, to challenge the idea of what could appear on paper, to make you wonder how or why a thing […]

UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP, FENCE MAGAZINE HOLDS LARGE AUCTION TO BENEFIT MAGAZINE, BOOK & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Queens, NY 10/2/2022   The newly anointed Editorial Co-Directors of Fence Magazineand Fence Publications, Emily Wallis Hughes and Jason Zuzga, announce an Art + Object + Experience Benefit Auction, hosted on the auction site Galabid. Zuzga and Wallis, who took […]