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POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Collaborative poetry practice improves voice and agile thinking. You can concretely support Fence’s work with 1$ or more. bit.ly/3J5eZDP $60 + receives bright butter-yellow letterpress broadside: More: fenceportal.org/broadside/

SEEKING fearless writers & readers. Support Fence with a few tax-deductible dollars during our year-end fundraising drive: bit.ly/3J5eZDP Given the looming Tr*** shenanigans in DC, nonprofits like Fence need your support as they bravely enter the mouth of the shark.

POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Poetic practice (writers+readers) improves voice & agile thinking. Help Fence survive 2025 w 1$ or more here: bit.ly/3J5eZDP ($60+ donors get letterpress broadside w "Kugel Exercises" signed by Wayne Koestenbaum.) fenceportal.org/broadside

Fence says: POETRY IS YOGA FOR THE BRAIN. Collaborative poetry practice improves voice and promotes agile thinking. Support Fence’s work: Step right up here, donate a few tax-deductible dollars:bit.ly/3J5eZDP New Wayne Koestenbaum broadside HERE:fenceportal.org/broadside/

Help keep Fence afloat in the sea of words—Aid Fence’s efforts here: bit.ly/3J5eZDP 1$ and up welcome and essential. Donors at $60 or more receive our new bright butter-yellow letterpress broadside featuring poetry by Wayne Koestenbaum. fenceportal.org/broadside/

KEEP the Language Acrobatic. SEEKING adventurous writers and fearless readers. Please consider donating a few (tax-deductible) dollars or many: bit.ly/3J5eZDP Given what’s coming in DC, little nonprofits like Fence need your support more than ever.

The Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize is OPEN for submissions through the end of this month, or until we receive 700 submissions! 🐚 SUBMIT & read more at fence.submittable.com/submit! 📖

"You just may not feel like it yes you just don’t feel like it. I’ll be waiting yes I’ve been waiting. I’ll wait. I’m right here." Beautiful new writing by @walt_knows_best in @FenceBooks fenceportal.org/bird-song/

Pleasures prove

I want to be loved like a Walt John Pearce story

"It will be fine yes it will be fine. Don’t leave yet yes not yet yes not yet. I won’t leave yet not yet yes not yet will you stay a while yes will you stay a while." Read “Bird Song,” a new story by @waltjohnpearce. Up now on Fence Steaming: fenceportal.org/bird-song/

COVER REVEAL! ✨ Jennifer Nelson’s On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, winner of the 2024 Ottoline Prize, is available for pre-order now at bookshop.org! Out on January 28, 2025. Cover design by Sharon DeGraw. 🔭 bookshop.org/p/books/on-the… 📖

FENCE is open for poetry translation submissions through TODAY, November 8 at midnight Eastern, 11:00 PM Central, 9:00 PM Pacific, 2:00 AM in Buenos Aires, 6:00 AM in Algiers & Ljubljana, 7:00 AM in Beirut, 8:00 AM in Nairobi, 3:00 PM in Beijing... 📖 fence.submittable.com/submit 💫

Digital Editor @NikSlackman_ speaking with issue 41 contributor Nathan Dragon of @B_Arrangements 💙

Today. 🗳️ (I constructed this ballot box with Amy Sara Carroll’s “Ballad of the Ballot” on p. 76, 77, & 78 of Fence issue number 41.) 📝 vote.org/polling-place-…

“But as I write this I am not a missing person. I am a dreaming person, a thinking person, a speaking person..." A third post re “the missing pers” of Fence issue number 41. 📖 (I am also a voting person, and I hope you are too. - Lydia, Associate Publicist)