https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/audio_bird_of_one_leah_umansky.mp3   1. My mother always told me that everything is scary the first time you do it. Sometimes, I have to remind myself:   self it’s okay to be scared be scared then, get over it     There are not so many givens anymore.     2.   I just celebrated another Hannukah […]

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.  […]

I am a rabid fan of “rotters,” or as more politely called on the BBC show In the Flesh, those with “Partially Deceased Syndrome.” In the Flesh is a show you must see, streaming everywhere—a deeply profound, witty, and ultimately deadly serious work of literary art and performance that takes on what life itself is […]

In Ghana, the air is thick with equatorial heat. Two seasons dominate the year: rainy and dry. I think of them as Wet Hot and Dust Hot. In Wet Hot, raindrops puncture the air so persistently that the holes they make in the grey sky seem permanent. Umbrellas are geometrically impractical, as the rain draws […]