“I try to be forthright”: Interview with Michael Chang
With their recent tap to edit Lambda Literary’s Emerge anthology, and timely receipt of the Poetry Project’s Brannan Prize, Fence editor and poet Michael Chang’s influence on this decade has begun. Writer Zachary Issenberg sits down with Chang to talk process and literary inspiration.
“Promoting love in the wake of violence is a revolutionary act”
An Interview with Poet Evan Cutts
Victoria McArtor reads from "Not the Pine Nuts" (Issue 04)
Victoria McArtor reads “Not the Pine Nuts” Victoria McArtor lives near Oklahoma State University. She was recently named a member of The Honor Club with Mutual of Omaha.... Read More
Ladan Osman reads poetry (Apogee Issue 04)
Ladan Osman reads “That Which Scatters and Breaks Apart” and “Trouble” Ladan Osman is the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize... Read More
Shal Nirvanus, "i 3 poems" (with video)
From “i 3 poems” by Shal Nirvanus i. being in this world is… if you ever feel like the extra person in the room and try joining the conversation it... Read More
The Vulture is a Patient Bird
By Fathima Cader One thousand hollow bones suspended from one small island’s underbelly, watery roots seeking anchorage, ours its submerged landscape of crags, broken into language and served with wooden... Read More