Fence 37 is filled with works by poets and prose writers ready and willing and able to name past and present conditions, problematize them formally, and propose complex futures. One condition we have is human over-production, over-consumption, and waste: a big problem which negatively impacts our viability as a species. I can identify myself and […]

Read part 1 here. 6. Now that it is safer to go outside I find myself driving alone to different towns to see friends I have only seen on the screen.  In between these towns, I often find myself alone on dark roads lined with endless trees, literally driving through another void, uncertain how long […]

This is a silly regret, as they all mostly are, but I sometimes wish I kept some kind of archive of the media that held some significance for me in deep lockdown.  One video that would have definitely made the top ten list is one that came out in the middle of the summer of 2020.  […]

Badlands is a 1973 American crime drama written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, and Warren Oates. The story is fictional, but inspired by the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958. In the film, fifteen-year-old Holly Sargis lives in South Dakota with […]

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 […]

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 […]