@prairielights.com appreciation post! 💫 This beloved Iowa City independent bookstore consistently carries Fence Books on their shelves & website, including @kathryncowles.bsky.social’s THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR & soon: Amanda Deutch’s forthcoming NEW YORK IRONWEED! 🌾
We’re excited to share the full cover for Amanda Deutch’s new york ironweed, which won the 2025 Ottoline Prize, & which Fence Books will publish on March 31, 2026! 💌
Pre-order new york ironweed at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/new-...! 🌱
We’re so excited to invite you all to our free, collaborative offsite reading at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, Maryland) on Saturday, March 7th from 8-10 PM! 💌
In this new review for The Constant Critic, Joshua Weiner writes about Christian Lehnert’s WICKERWORK (translated from the German by Richard Seiburth) within the context of ecopoetics with careful, thorough attention.
Review edited by Anthony Madrid. 🐛
fencedigital.com/2026/02/20/c... 💌
Our new rendition goes live tomorrow with two new pieces, but before then, make sure to give a read to The Bulb Region writer Shy Watson’s (@formermissnj.bsky.social) punchy prose, “The Lunch Lady,” in @fencebooks.bsky.social.
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The Louisville Conference on Art & Literature’s “The Future of the Little Magazine Panel”—this Friday, February 20th from 9-10:30 AM—will feature Fence Editorial Director Emily Wallis Hughes & Associate Editor Soham Patel! 💌
artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/... ✨
Some part of this is like some part of that. Your mind kind of goes where it goes until it sees something and stops. You like what you like repeated. There's no good way to tell you that you hardly matter to me, so I'll build you up, love you, love you, love you. You're kind of a ghost. You're holding a lamb.
Lesle Lewis
@fencebooks.bsky.social
We’re excited & honored to announce that PORN W/OUT SEX by Mark Faunlagui was selected by Emily Wallis Hughes (Editorial Director & Books Editor) as the winner of the 2027 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize! 💌
Read full newsletter: mailchi.mp/fenceportal/..., & subscribe at fenceportal.org. 🎟️
Kenneth Reveiz interviews Michael Leong for The Constant Critic: the two poets speak about poetry, community, & the practice of collage. 💌
Read the full interview on Fence Digital: fencedigital.com/2026/02/13/c.... 🗞️
I’m pleased to share Fence’s annotation of The Poetry Project’s wonderful Spring 2026 reading series lineup! 💌
Attend these readings at The Parish Hall at St. Mark's Church in New York City, or tune into the free livestream on The Poetry Project’s YouTube channel.
www.poetryproject.org ✨
Our warm & most enthusiastic congratulations to @sharmico.bsky.social & TINY EVOLUTIONS, which Emily Wallis Hughes selected as winner of the 2027 Ottoline Prize!
We’re honored to announce this selection & our other finalists. ✨
Thank you, thoughtful first readers.
mailchi.mp/fenceportal/...! 🐛
a college from the new collection The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (2025) the text says: "The women are cutouts / of women of real / women the cutouts / are real but they are not / real women they are / real cutouts."
Kathryn Cowles
@fencebooks.bsky.social / @kathryncowles.bsky.social
Celebrate Kathryn Cowles’s THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR, winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize, in combination with Geoffrey Babbitt’s A GRAIN OF SAND IN LAMBETH this Thursday, February 5th at 7 PM! 💌 @kathryncowles.bsky.social @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social
Bright blue book release poster with author photos and book covers—Kathryn Cowles- The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor; and Geoffrey Babbitt - A Grain of Sand in Lambeth.
Two tiny tiny books in a palm.
Three little coloring books with a bird lady on the cover.
Finger Lakes Friends: Double Book Release Reading! Thursday at 7 - HWS campus in Geneva (Demarest Hall)
Kathryn Cowles and Geoffrey Babbitt. I’ll be handing out some tiny books❤️
@niina.bsky.social 💌
Niina Pollari dialogues WORKS & DAYS by Gina Myers, I WAS WORKING by Ariel Yelen, & MAKING A LIVING by Rosalie Moffett in her new review for the Constant Critic: “A Millennial Poetics of Work in Late Capitalist America.”
Read the full review at fencedigital.com/2026/01/30/c.... ✨
ICE OUT. 🚫🧊
VOLUNTEER for the MigraWatch Hotline. 📞
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DONATE to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). 💌
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SHUT DOWN Minneapolis-area Hiltons, which house ICE. 🚫
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“Kids came in while their parents went to the march and folded zines in Somali so that we could pack whistle packs.” The zine explains how a whistle keeps people safe [...]."
— @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social & @literaryhub.bsky.social
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⚡️THIS WEEK ⚡️ Join this 90-minute training from States at the Core and Protect RP on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. Please Note: Due to security and safety concerns, we do not record these trainings.
Register on our website! defend612.com/events/
COVER REVEAL! 🍃 new york ironweed by Amanda Deutch won the 2025 Ottoline Prize, & is forthcoming from Fence Books on March 31st, 2026.
Pre-order new york ironweed at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/new-...! 💌
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HAPPY PUB DAY! 💌 @kathryncowles.bsky.social
This gorgeous & singular catalog finds bookstores & readers today: pictured here on display in City Lights Books in SF. (📷: Stacey Lewis)
Find these pages of poems & full-color collages at your local, independent bookstore, or order from Bookshop.org. 📖
Congratulations, Kathryn! 💌
It’s Book Release Day for The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor!
-Fence Modern Poets Prize
-Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize for a manuscript in progress
-Images in full color, thanks to the wonderful people at @fencebooks.bsky.social
Erick Verran reviews Camille Ralphs’s AFTER YOU WERE, I AM for the Constant Critic… read this excellent review (edited by David Gorin (@davidgorin.bsky.social)) on Fence Digital. 🌿
fencedigital.com/2026/01/16/c... 🎟️
Winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize, THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR by Kathryn Cowles meets readers and bookshelves on Tuesday, January 20th. 📖 @kathryncowles.bsky.social
Pre-order this singular archive at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... 🎬
ONE WEEK until the publication date of Kathryn Cowles (@kathryncowles.bsky.social)'s compilation of Eleanor Eleanor's poetry, captions, & full color collages: THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR, winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series. 🥳
Pre-order: bookshop.org/p/books/the-.... 🪽
We're so pleased to feature our first vispo feature of the new year, with gratitude to Steaming Visual Poetry Editor, Amy Beth Sisson: wonderful Zach Ozma's "Score for Pre-Figurative Archaeology 1."
Watch the full video at fenceportal.org/score-for-pre-figurative-archaeology-1/! 🎬
With this Fence newsletter, we offer you free, weeklong access to Fence’s full digital archive (linktr.ee/fencebooks), share our new subscription system (!!), & offer our sincere gratitude for your continued support. 🕊️
Fence will be on holiday break from December 24th through January 6th. 💌
Thanks to FENCE Poetry Editor Maxe Crandall, you can find FENCE issue number 42 in Little Free Libraries (@littlefreelibrary.bsky.social) across Oakland, & in Et al. Gallery in SF! (Pictured in sunglasses: Ryan Darley of Et al. Gallery.)
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etaletc.com/et-al-books 💌
