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In Brooklyn, an audience gathered and was treated to a gorgeous provocative evening of poetry, music, and banter/improvisation.
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Beginning with a reading by Edgar Garcia, this episode includes music from the experimental electronic band Matmos and the actual voices of poets, fiction writers, and other artists working with words to render new waves of thought through eye, ear, and air. Come in and hang out with us on the top edge of the Fence where you are welcome to get swirled up in the speaking spells still fresh now as they were when active breath and vibrating vocal cords.
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The all new Fence podcast resumes with episode 4.3. Previous episodes will return shortly.
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Launch party and reading. April 1, 2023 at Torn Page in New York City. Introductions by Editorial Co-Directors Jason Zuzga and Emily Wallis Hughes, along with Fiction Editor Ashley Mayne. You will hear Alexis Almeida's translations of poems by Roberta Iannimico, poetry by Steve Alvarez, poetry by poem and translator Patricio Ferrari, a nonfiction memoir essay by Michael Klein, and a story by fiction writer Nicole Miller.
MANY THANKS TO LEE ANN BROWN AND TONY TORN FOR HOSTING THIS EVENT; THEY ARE MARVELOUS, AND GENEROUS.
A transcript is also available here. NOTE: All errors generated in the transcription process have been kept intentionally to preserve the mutations.
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Support the showIn this episode, Carly Stone writes about David Byrne and mental dislocation, Hazel White writes about systemic violence, Leah Umansky shows us a flame within flame, and Diamanda LaBerge Dramm reads an excerpt from 36 Exposures, by Dominic Jaeckle. With music by Taraka.
1) Welcome to Paradise Lost
Taraka
Find out more here: https://www.taraka.org/
2) The Mental Dislocation Is A Wonderful Feeling
Carly Stone
"This is good. You feel like your head has come off your body. Let your mind rearrange the proportions of the world. "
Find the full work here: https://fenceportal.org/the-mental-dislocation-is-a-wonderful-feeling/
3) This View/Uncomfortable
Hazel White
https://www.hazelwhite.com/
4) Bird of One
Leah Umansky
"...be scared
then, get over it"
Find the full poem here: https://fenceportal.org/bird-of-one/
5) Excerpt from 36 Exposures
Dominic Jaeckle
Find out more here: https://dominicjaeckle.com/36-Exposures
6) Old Gloves, by Taraka
This episode was produced by Ashley Mayne and Jason Zuzga
In series 4, we go off-book, beginning in the previous episode with the recording of a live reading given by Harmony Holliday and Ariana Reines. Here in 4.2, you have the chance to closely listen to three of the works that Fence has published directly to the website -- Christopher Schmidt's work transcends time and space, delving deeply into queer desire and sociality in turn of the century Brazil. Holly Mitchell engages the work of Matthew Rohrer, And lexi welch's tour-de-force piece combines woman's soccer with eros and complex sociality.
1 ) A Natural History of Cruising
CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT
"An attractive figure rounds the corner. Is he? Yes, very. Your gaze locks in his. The moment dilates. Take in the hooded eyes, the aquiline nose. Zero the body..."
Find the full essay here: https://fenceportal.org/a-natural-history-of-cruising/
More on Christopher Schmidt:
2 ) By Accident Here I Am Again: Holly Mitchell's Centos of Matthew Rohrer's The Sky Contains the Plans
Holly Mitchell with Matthew Rohrer April 5, 2021 Elecment #9
Find the full work with images here: https://fencedigital.com/2021/04/05/elecment-by-accident-here-i-am-again-holly-mitchells-centos-of-matthew-rohrers-the-sky-contains-the-plans/
3) "Snake and Ladder World" by Sasha Pearl from the album Friendship Street
4 ) ASTROTURF by LEXI WELCH
The full work with images: https://fenceportal.org/astroturf/
"Astroturf eats sun like a late meal. The heat greets my left cheek, right cheek rushes with soiled roadway breeze, I reconcile two or more feelings..."
5) "Deep Hollow" by Tarika from her self-titled debut album. You can find out more at her website, Taraka.org
The time is 6:51 pm, eastern daylight savings time, May 14, 2022, lull in covid, spring. The location is a non-profit library and workspace, Wendy's Subway, located at 379 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206.
The speakers you will hear are Rebecca Wolff, Ariana Reines, Sade, and Harmony Holiday.
Ariana will be reading from her new manuscript-in-progress, The Rose, and Harmony will be reading from her newly published epic, Maafa, from Fence Books.
Fence Sounds, a podcast, is produced by Fence Magazine, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Learn more at fenceportal.org about all the Fence Publications, which include Fence Books, Fence Magazine, Elecment, Fence Digital, Fence Steaming, and Constant Critic. Subscribe to the magazine, and purchase a book by Ariana Reines, Harmony Holiday, and other fence authors again at fenceportal.org. Thanks for listening.
Support the showFence Sounds – 3.5 Season 3, Episode 5, with readings from contributors to the Fence Literary Journal Double print Issue, number 37 slash 38, produced by our Editor-in-Chief, Rebecca Wolff. I’m Jason Zuzga, one of the Nonfiction and Other editors of Fence the print journal, I’m also an editor of one of Fence’s online publication arms, Fence Steaming, found at fenceportal.org. Online at fencedigital.com we also have Constant Critic, edited by Emily Wallis Hughes, with a library of our reviews of poetry. Emily also edits Elecment on Fence Digital with experiments in media and poetry. Check out fenceportal.org/about to read essays by our editors including me plus a little essay I wrote about fence’s history. In this episode, we open with Elizabeth Robinson & Suzanne Dyckman’s collaborative ekphrastic poems, read by Elizabeth Robinson, Four Paintings by Agnes Martin, including "Eight Fish Under Water", "Walking," "Blessings," and "Red Bird." Adam Veal will read the poems “Archivore” and “Looper.” Then Claire Dougherty reads the poem “Get Back to Me Sometime.” After that, Michael Borth will read three poems, “Healed and Healed,” “I Have Had a Child,” and “The Strangers of the Land. Before moving into this episode’s short fiction, you’ll hear an original song, “James” by KIKA, who is also featured in this season’s first and third episodes. More Music by Kika is available on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Pandora, and Tidal. Next, Michelle Suzann’s short story “Bottom of the Hill.” We close with Kika’s song "Midnight Drive."
Fence Steaming, found at Fenceportal.org, with such offerings as a print and audio collaboration POEMS FROM WHERE HERE WERE WE by Charles Bernstein and Norman Fischer, an essay by Adoley Ammah-Tagoe, METROPOLIS: SCRAPS FROM ACCRA, GHANA, and an essay by Whitney DeVos, "CAN ESTADOUNIDENSES WATCH A 'FOREIGN FILM?' ON CUARÓN’S ROMA."
A HISTORY OF FENCE: Including Essays by FENCE Editors and Selected Articles and Interviews
The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.