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With most of the entirety of the published journal's contents read aloud by the authors, the FENCE audiobook/podcast continues to push boundaries in literary publishing. In continuous publication since 1998, Fence is a biannual print journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism that redefines the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. FENCE is committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate with, and bedevil all the systems that bring new writing to light. As a non-profit, Fence is mandated to make decisions outside of the requirements of market force or capital concern, and only in keeping with its mission: to maintain a dedicated venue for writing and art that bears the clear variant mark of the individual’s response to their context; and to make that venue accessible to as many, and as widely, as possible so that this work can reach others, that they may be fully aware of how much is possible in writing and art; such that Fence publishes almost entirely from its unsolicited submissions; and is committed to publishing the literature and art of queer writers and writers of color. All material is (c) Fence Magazine, Incorporated. Issue 35: 00:00:00 Introduction by Jason Zuzga / 00:01:58 Edgar Garcia - FROM Skins of Columbus / 00:10:29 Matthew Bernstein Sycamore - A Desert Island / 00:14:04Tess Brown-Lavoie - Three Poems / 00:31:12 Laura Sims - Walking Dead Poem #39 / 00:32:17 Eleni Sikelianos - FROM What I Knew / 00:38:47 Leah Dworkin - The Usuals / 01:16:10 Rachel Levitsky - FROM Against Travel / 01:22:05 Christopher Patrick Miller - Three Poems / 01:33:04 Blake Butler - The Approaching Planet / 02:09:38 Tamara Barnett-Herron - The Loves of the Plants / 02:17:02 Nora Toomey - Two Poems / 02:18:24 Ji yoon Lee - Separation Anxiety Poem / 02:22:09 David Blair - Thinking About the Bronx / 02:24:54 David Alejandro Hernandez - Emperor / 02:26:26 Nawal Nader-French - In Proximity / 02:30:07 Jenessa VanZutphen - The mother / 02:30:52 Robin Clarke - Poem "What is the best flower?" / 02:31:39 Brian Kim Stefans - Three Poems / 02:35:01 Wendy C. Ortiz - Projections 1-30 / 02:44:37Jesse Nathan - Four Poems / 02:47:14 Abby Minor - Innovation Nation / 02:52:28 Gary Lundy - a constant state of departures. / 02:53:28 Margaret Johnson - All the Others Are Saved / 02:54:46 Amy Lawless - Sex at a Funeral / 02:58:54 Emmett Gallagher - Open to visitations / 03:00:57 Matthew Moore - Simone Weil Je Tente (read in French by Alexandra Fenelon) / 03:08:41 Matthew Moore - Simone Weil Je Tente (read in English by the author) / 03:15:25 Steven Alvarez - yr automatic: walls walls / 03:25:37 Sam Truitt -- "There's a dot..." (variations) / 03:27:01Josh Kalscheur - Picture of Health / 03:37:35 Joanna Fuhrman - Search Engine Overload / 03:39:41Tasia Trevino - Dictaphone 6, Dictaphone 7 / 03:42:33James Tate - Two Poems (read by Dara Weir) / 03:48:09 Nicole Burdick - Two Poems / 03:54:32 Desirée Alvarez - Three Poems / 03:59:51 Nat Sufrin - Four Poems / 04:08:17 Alison Wellford - The Women You Love / 04:19:25 Liana Jahan Imam - Three Poems / 04:30:14 Bonnie Chau - Yogurt Code / 04:43:53 Steffan Triplett - Flood the Room / 04:52:47 Dan Chu - Two Poems / 04:57:03 Serena Solin - Exposed Fragments of Sculpture / 05:10:28 Erica Hunt - FROM Veronica, A Lamentation (Someone Matching Your Description, This Is Where Love Comes In) / 05:14:46 Timothy Otte - After Psalm 121, After Psalm 22 / 05:16:25 Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle - Four Poems / 05:21:41 BC Griffith - Two Poems / 05:33:24 Afterword