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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy #LitMagWeek from Fence Magazine & Books! 🍂 Use promo code LITMAGWEEK for 40% off a digital subscription to FENCE! 🌞 shop.exacteditions.com/fence &/or pre-order both MUD SONGS & CALIFORNIA SILENCE from Itasca Books, & we’ll mail you a free copy of FENCE no. 43! 📖

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To celebrate #LitMagWeek, Fence would like to honor & appreciate an out-of-print favorite—The Floating Bear—as well as share Editorial Director Emily Wallis Hughes’s thoughts on the little magazine in her Editor’s Note from FENCE issue no. 43. ✨

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy #LitMagWeek from Fence Magazine & Books! 🌞 Scroll these slides for excerpts from Jason Zuzga’s BRIEF, PARTIAL HISTORY OF FENCE, available in full at fenceportal.org. 🍂

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #LitMagWeek! 🍃 Special offers: 1) Use promo code LITMAGWEEK for 40% off a digital subscription through shop.exacteditions.com/fence! 🌻 2) Pre-order both MUD SONGS & CALIFORNIA SILENCE, & we’ll mail you a free copy of FENCE no. 43! Just email your receipt to fence.fencebooks@gmail.com. 💌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OPEN CALL for TRANSLATIONS! 🏔️ Translation Editor: Cole Swensen Deadline: Wednesday, September 30 Submission Fee: $5 Read our full guidelines & SUBMIT at fence.submittable.com/submit! 🍂

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FENCE & @futurepoem.bsky.social will share TABLE 343 at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 27th from 10 AM through 6 PM. Free & open to the public! We’ll have books and magazines from our respective presses for purchase, & we'd love to see you there. 🌞 brooklynbookfestival.org

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OPEN CALL for Climate & Ecology Other! 🍃 Other Editors Sarah Falkner & Adam Golaski seek work that engages with, reports back from, & investigates this intersectional ecological moment for a special feature in FENCE issue number 45. 🏔️ fence.submittable.com/submit

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I chose this artwork/poem for Fence Steaming Vispo because the relationship between needlework, a domestic art, and literacy feels generative to me.” — Amy Beth Sisson, Fence Steaming Vispo Editor 🧵 Find photographs of Iviva Olenick’s HIBISCUS on Fence Steaming! 🍃 fenceportal.org/hibiscus-i-m...

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Stella Santamaría’s debut poetry collection, & winner of the 2025 Ottoline Prize, CALIFORNIA SILENCE, publishes on November 10th, 2026. Pre-order your copy from Itasca Books! 🦋 itascabooks.com/products/cal... (Thank you, summer Fence intern Rose Hinchliff, for the digital collage designs! ⚡️)

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’re saddened to hear of the passing of Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1941-2026)—poet, feminist critic, & scholar—& we honor and celebrate her life, work, & legacy. 💌 We’re honored to have published six collages from her project, SECULAR EX VOTOS, in FENCE issue no. 41. 📖

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Tomorrow, we at Fence commence our August-long Quiet Time, in which we’ll take a break from our regular email/social media/other Fence work rhythms to rest, & to focus on our personal art-making. 🍃 fenceportal.org/subscribe/ 💌 itascabooks.com/products/mud... 🌞 itascabooks.com/products/cal... 📖

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Fence Books celebrates its 25th anniversary! 🥳 Fence Books redefines the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. 🌌 fenceportal.org/support/ 💌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

itascabooks.com/products/mud... is a searing & tender journey through languages, cultures, & origins. itascabooks.com/products/cal... maps a future beyond the fraught border of language politics between English & Spanish. Both debut collections question the existing edges between languages. 🍃

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“James has always had an unflinching eye for dailyness in his work..." — John Spiegel reviews John James’s EXTINCTION SONG for The Constant Critic 🍃 Visit Fence Digital to read this new review! 🌞 fencedigital.com/2026/07/28/c...

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thank you to our wonderful readers—Kathryn Cowles, Geoffrey Babbitt, Nancy Flynn, Quinn Gancedo, & Isabel Zacharias—to my co-host Jeff Alessandrelli, to Carly & Chadwick at Word Virus, & to our sweet and receptive audience, for a special and connective reading last Thursday! 🍃

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ fenceportal.org/subscribe FENCE no. 43 is in the world, FENCE no. 44 is in the works, & FENCE no. 45 is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! Submit your poetry, fiction, translation, & other to fence.submittable.com/submit; all submissions will receive a careful, thorough read. 🌞

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stella Santamaría’s brilliant debut, CALIFORNIA SILENCE, maps a future beyond the fraught border of language politics between English and Spanish. This Ottoline Prize-winning collection arrives November 10th! 🦋 PRE-ORDER CALIFORNIA SILENCE from Itasca Books! ✨ itascabooks.com/products/cal...

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"The formal variety of the volume mirrors the codeswitching verve of his gaily convivial speakers—" —“A Person of People: Noah Warren Reviews Kyle Carrero Lopez’s PARTY LINE” for The Constant Critic ✨ Review edited by CC Co-Editor @davidgorin.bsky.social. fencedigital.com/2026/07/08/a... 🍃

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Please join us to celebrate @kathryncowles.bsky.social & @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social’s respective new poetry collections with a double book launch reading at Word Virus Books in Portland on July 16th at 7 PM! 🧵 With Nancy Flynn, Quinn Gancedo, & Isabel Zacharias. 🌞 @fonografeditions.bsky.social 💌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

On this semiquincentennial, July 4, 2026, we’re honored to share five full-color multimedia collages from Brandon Downing’s THE AMERICANS on Fence Steaming (fenceportal.org/steaming-2/)! Amy Beth Sisson curates Fence Steaming's visual poetry.

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fence Books author Amanda Deutch will read from new york ironweed—with poets Sandra Doller & @slanders.bsky.social!—at Unnameable Books next Friday, July 10th. 🎟️ (Sandra Doller has poems in FENCE No. 43!) 🍃 🌞 Friday, July 10th at 7 PM 📍 Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@robmclennan.bsky.social just published a delightful, contextualizing new review of Amanda Deutch’s new york ironweed! 🌱 Read this review (& so many others!) on rob’s legendary literary blog! 💌 robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/aman...

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Rain Taxi just published Kasey Jueds’ thoughtful, perceptive new review of THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR by @kathryncowles.bsky.social! 🧵 Order Rain Taxi for $5 to read this review, & wonderful etc. 💌 raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-re... & order STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS at Bookshop.org! 🌦️

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"[This] book is like a harrowing road trip, a long-haul truck route..." @niina.bsky.social reviews Conor Hultman’s huge, sad, conceptual poetry book, DOE (@cloak.bsky.social, 2026), for The Constant Critic! Read full review on Fence Digital: fencedigital.com/2026/06/24/c.... 🍃

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I reviewed Conor Hultman's DOE, which uses text from a database of cases with unidentified victims. This book, in all its imposing 600+ pages, shines a light on the continuity and pervasiveness of violence in America. Thx @fencebooks.bsky.social for the venue. fencedigital.com/2026/06/24/c...

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Haunted by Incompleteness: Niina Pollari Reviews Conor Hultman’s DOE – Fence Digital

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Fence, in collaboration with Creators for Gaza, asks for your material support of Mahmoud, a brilliant and kind Palestinian writer. 🇵🇸 First 50 to donate $50 will receive FENCE! 📖 chuffed.org/project/122413-a-new-chapter-in-our-journey-help-mahmoud-continue-his-education-amidst-the-crisis-in-gaza 💌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This very Saturday! The FENCE no. 43 backyard pool party, launch reading, & poets theater. 💌 🌞 June 20, 2026 from 2-6:30 PM (readings at 4:30 PM) 📍 4 Riverledge Road in Hudson, NY 12534 (rides available from the Hudson Amtrak station) 📖 Free! Everyone welcome! FENCE no. 43 available for purchase!

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“...Gillian Osborne’s brilliant review/essay is a work of criticism that can happen only when the critic and the poet have deep roots in the same dirt...” — @davidgorin.bsky.social, The Constant Critic Co-Editor 💌 Visit fencedigital.com to read the newest review from The Constant Critic! 🌱

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We’re thrilled to invite you to the FENCE no. 43 backyard pool party, launch reading, & poets theater on June 20, 2026 from 2-6 PM! 💦 Free! Everyone welcome! Accessible via Amtrak! FENCE no. 43 available for purchase! 🌞 📍 4 Riverledge Road in Hudson, NY 12534 (rides available from Hudson Amtrak)

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We’re so excited to share this preview of FENCE no. 43’s Table of Contents, & excerpts from this issue’s Editor Notes by Editorial Director Emily Wallis Hughes & Fiction Editor Rav Grewal-Kök! 🌞 SUBSCRIBE to FENCE magazine today to receive a hot-off-the press issue! fenceportal.org/subscribe 📖

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

✨ ONE MORE DAY! ✨ Submit your full-length poetry manuscripts to the Fence Modern Poets Series &/or the Ottoline Prize by TOMORROW, June 5th at 11:59 PM Eastern / 8:59 PM Pacific! 🌱 Scroll these slides for some guidelines, & visit fence.submittable.com/submit to read our full guidelines & SUBMIT! 💌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Poets & Writers just featured Fence’s 2026 Ottoline Prize winner, Stella Santamaría, in their “Grants & Awards” newsletter! Santamaría shares her reflections & advice on submitting to writing contests. www.pw.org! 💌 & look forward to the Ottoline Prize-winning CALIFORNIA SILENCE in November 2026! ✨

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Cecily Parks’s THE SEEDS (Alice James Books, 2025) just won the 2026 UNT Rilke Prize (announced yesterday!) & Gillian Osborne just reviewed THE SEEDS for The Constant Critic, published today! Read Osborne’s thoughtful & thought-provoking review on Fence Digital: fencedigital.com/2026/05/29/c.... 🧵

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

BOOKS NOT BOMBS. 💌 Many thanks to Amanda Deutch’s Bay Area friend for these gorgeous photos of new york ironweed at San Francisco’s historic City Lights Bookstore! 💡 & spot the Fence books in these photos! 📖

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This Saturday, May 23rd, Fence Books authors KATHRYN COWLES & BRANDON DOWNING will read (& share their collages / visual art!) at 5 PM sharp (doors at 4:30 PM) at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City! 🌱🧵✂️ Attend this final Fence-curated reading of the season! fenceportal.org/support 💌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“trillium / is not my password anymore” 🌱 Visit your local, independent bookstore or Bookshop.org to find Amanda Deutch’s new york ironweed! new york ironweed won the 2025 Ottoline Prize. 💌 @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This Saturday, May 16th, Fall 2026 Fence Books authors PATRICIO FERRARI & STELLA SANTAMARÍA will read at 5 PM sharp (doors at 4:30 PM) at Artists Space. 🐚 & if you’re not in New York City, join the Zoom livestream at 893 9594 7519. 🍃 $5 admission goes directly to readers. 💌

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I went to @fencebooks.bsky.social AWP booth & asked for their weirdest book. Without hesitation, June by Daniel Brenner was recommended. "He's a real freak," said the bookseller. Brenner's poems are weird & fragmented. Poems so good, I grew mad at my own writing. These books deserve much more love.

cover of The Stupefying Flashbulbs by Daniel Brenner (2006)

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE! JUNE 20, 2026! 💦 …for the launch of FENCE no. 43, including a poets theater special feature, a reading, & a backyard pool party! Featuring Tony Torn & poets theater in the pool, & FENCE no. 43 contributors TBA. 🌞 Free! Everyone welcome! 💌 & FENCE no. 43 available for purchase! 📖

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This Saturday, May 9th, PATRICIA SPEARS JONES & KHASHAYAR “KESS” MOHAMMADI will read at 5 PM sharp (doors at 4:30 PM) at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City. ⛅️ & if you’re not in New York City, join the Zoom livestream at 893 9594 7519. 🎟️ $5 admission goes directly to readers. 🙌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Remember to submit your full-length poetry manuscripts to the Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize & the Ottoline Prize by MAY 30, 2026! 🙌 We welcome poets in all stages of their writing life to submit. 🌞 Read our full guidelines & submit at fence.submittable.com/submit! 🎟️

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We’re thrilled & truly honored to welcome Haleh Liza Gafori to Fence as a new poetry editor! 🙌 @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Haleh will join poetry editors Maxe Crandall, Delicia Daniels, Patricia Killelea, & Max Winter! Our warmest welcome to Fence, Haleh! 💌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This Saturday, May 2nd, DARCIE DENNIGAN & TESS BROWN-LAVOIE will read at 5 PM sharp (doors at 4:30 PM) at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City. 🪴 & if you’re not in New York City, join the Zoom livestream at 893 9594 7519. 🦋

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The O’Miami Poetry Festival spotlighted Stella Santamaría’s ZipOde! Congratulations, Stella! ✨ Hear Stella’s poem on @wlrn.org, & at the ZipOdes Finale from 6:30-9:30 PM at the Vizcaya Museum & Gardens tonight! 🌺 Fence Books will publish Stella's CALIFORNIA SILENCE this November 2026. 🌌

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Browse The Center for Fiction’s “National Poetry Month Featuring Small Presses” table for new york ironweed by Amanda Deutch & Fonograf's Bird Watching & Their First Three Books of Poetry by Eileen Myles! 🌞 @fonografeditions.bsky.social 📸: Amanda Deutch

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