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” […]

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, […]