This is an ekphrastic poem by Lonely Christopher responding to the film “Lonesome Cowboys” by Andy Warhol. This film is considered by many to be Warhol’s last (the artist has a notoriously vast and enigmatic filmography). Notably, it is one of the few he shot outside of his factory, trading its aluminum-foil padded walls for […]
The Searchers
Back when Suez was a hot topic, it was the Gladiator of Tennessee vs. the Alabama Murderer, and my fella took a few blows but knocked out the champ, defeated in Montgomery, in record time! The amateurs all came looking. If you want victory, I said, you must train like him, eat like him, and […]
Four Stories
The following stories were originally published in Fence #20, Winter 2008-2009. You can purchase this issue as an ebook here. —translated by Martin Brady & Helen Hughes The Blind Director Often he would sit there in the country’s penetrating sunlight under the merciful protection, so to speak, of his physical handicap. He allowed the […]
Post Vision©
Screen Shot is a space for writers to investigate the relationship between language and film, from narrative viewing experiences to Zoom meetings and Instagram stories. We are committed to discovering writers who use words as a tool for exploring the event of cinema, video, and the spectacle of our lives. To submit, email screenshotfence@gmail.com This […]
Astroturf
Astroturf eats sun like a late meal. The heat greets my left cheek, right cheek rushes with soiled roadway breeze, I reconcile two or more feelings. The astroturf at the Women’s World Cup in 2015 was reportedly 120 degrees at kickoff. Hot surface for the hot […]
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Matter might be called imagination turned war, puzzling scenes in the bombardment during “that ongoing, vast but somehow boring destruction. The landscape grows increasingly perplexed. “Little conceived more American than the “cryptographic” since it can reorient sense, helping to account for turbulence that follows, therefore begins. Instance: color aspects of American democracy, or terror here […]
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RICHARD JACOBSON MARGARET JAKOBSON MURRAY JANOFSKY CONRAD JANOWITZ JEFFREY KAGEL KATHERINE KALINSKY BERNICE KAMIAT MELVIN KAMINSKY Afraid of dangling A participle: A reader Who knows the folks Who are running things Who value clarity and concision You might never get over How to make things Matter— perceptions of research Frames that are needed To understand […]
The Coppices of Pleasure
As the summer days get longer, the leaf canopy fills out and the woods darken. In the silence, purple flowers nod. I can’t recall the sensation of pleasure, only the context, which I would have to tell as a story. Would it turn you on? Here’s a story. Antoine Saint-Just rises before the Assembly and […]
Two Poems
No Echo I thought you just got off talking about my cum, but you’re stretching me out with my spot in your hand when it comes to me, clear and slick—I see. It’s because I said I wished I could shoot. I said so a few times. It’s true— I only know how much so […]
the stories (that) aren’t told
he said there’s nothing about us a psalm without us, dissolution as in: stagnation, intransigence in black life, pure force undiluted by reparation, an unfamilial beauty indebted to pale reflections whose possibility for neutral remains undiagnosed: it’s too easy to say white is neutral, splintered i: dentities and emergent modes re: defining oppression as a […]
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