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Harmony Holiday and Ariana Raines reading on May 14, 2022 at Wendy's Subway

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - December 14, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour
In Brooklyn, an audience gathered and was treated to a gorgeous provocative evening of poetry, music, and banter/improvisation.  Support the show


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Episode One of FenceCast --- HEAR REAL VOICES from the 35th Issue of Fence magazine.

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - November 29, 2023 17:00 - 5 hours
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 t...


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Fence Sounds 2_9_22 FINAL edited

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - November 07, 2023 23:00 - 51 minutes
The all new Fence podcast resumes with episode 4.3.  Previous episodes will return shortly.  Support the show

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Launch party/reading for Fence issue #40: translations, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction.

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - April 12, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour
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...

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4.3 Fence Sounds--Carly Stone, Hazel White, Leah Umansky, Dominic Jaeckle

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - May 30, 2022 02:00 - 51 minutes
In 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 ...

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4.2 Fence Sounds -- the Best of Fence Online. Christopher Schmidt, Holly Mitchell, lexi welch

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - May 24, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes
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...

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4.1 Fence Sounds -Harmony Holiday and Ariana Reines: A Live Fence Reading. May 14, 2022

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - May 15, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour
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.  ...

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Definition of Horror and Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Grown-Up Book Report - November 21, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Time to talk about what Horror is...which we've been discussing all along and will continue to debate in perpetuity. Plus Lisa made Carly read The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Trembly.  Description of Cabin at the End of the World: Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, a...

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Big Fish by Daniel Wallace

Grown-Up Book Report - October 10, 2021 22:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
This week Carly made me read Big Fish by Daniel Wallace. If you haven't read Big Fish, don't worry. We'll go over the plot, book report style, so you get the context you need to understand our clever observations. Surprisingly, Big Fish is a pretty G rated book. So we have no content warnings. W...

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3.5 Fence Sounds - Elizabeth Robinson & Suzanne Dyckman, Adam Veal, Claire Dougherty, Michael Borth, Michele Suzann, with Music by KIKA.

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - October 02, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour
Fence 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 o...

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3.4 FENCE 37/38 Poetry and Fiction by Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer, Jessica Holburn, Veronica Kuhn, Stella Corso, Mona Kareem, a smith, Laura Mullen, Ashunda Norris, Ted Dodson, Michael Holt, Adra Raine, Rob McLennan with Music by Dave JaVu

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - September 29, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes
Welcome to Fence Sounds, Season 3, Episode 3, with readings from the Fence Double print issue, number 37/38 Spring Summer 2021. 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...

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The Hunger by Alma Katsu, Part 3

Grown-Up Book Report - September 26, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to Part 3 of GUBR reads The Hunger by Alma Katsu. Please listen to part 1 & 2 first.   The Hunger is a novel based on the historic, ill-fated wagon train known as The Donner Party. As this book is big and complicated, it will take us 3 parts to cover it all. We will accelerate our usual ...

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3.3 FENCE 37/38 Poetry and Prose from Erik Kennedy, Randy Prunty, Hilary Plum, Samantha Burns, Katie Marya, Jeff Sirkin, Andrew Seguin, Benjamin Niespodziany, Kathryn Mockler, Jackelyn Hoy. Music by KIKA.

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - September 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour
Featuring the work of FENCE 37/38 contributors.  Season 3, Episode 3. In this episode, we open with Erik Kennedy’s prose piece entitled "The Please Stop Killing Us And Destroying Everything that Sustains Us Society."  After, Randy Prunty reads poems "Earth Elegy: Low Tide" and "Earth Elegy, Amat...

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3.3 FENCE 37/38 Poetry and Prose from Erik Kennedy, Randy Prunty, Hilary Plum, Samantha Burns, Katie Marya, Jeff Sirkin, Andrew Seguin, Benjamin Niespodziany, Kathryn Mockler, Jackelyn Hoy. Music by KIKA.

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - September 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour
Featuring the work of FENCE 37/38 contributors.  Season 3, Episode 3. In this episode, we open with Erik Kennedy’s prose piece entitled "The Please Stop Killing Us And Destroying Everything that Sustains Us Society."  After, Randy Prunty reads poems "Earth Elegy: Low Tide" and "Earth Elegy, Amat...

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The Hunger by Alma Katsu, Part 2

Grown-Up Book Report - September 19, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to Part 2 of GUBR reads The Hunger by Alma Katsu. Please listen to part 1 first.   The Hunger is a novel based on the historic, ill-fated wagon train known as The Donner Party. As this book is big and complicated, it will take us 3 parts to cover it all. We will accelerate our usual sch...

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The Hunger by Alma Katsu, Part 1

Grown-Up Book Report - September 12, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
This week I made Carly read The Hunger by Alma Katsu. The Hunger is a novel based on the historic, ill-fated wagon train known as The Donner Party. As this book is big and complicated, it will take us 3 parts to cover it all. We will accelerate our usual schedule and release each part on a conse...

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3.2 FENCE 37/38 Delicia Daniels, Jordan E. Franklin, Josh May, Kyle Booten, Austin S. Lin, Christopher Randall, Scott Lambridis, Music by Dave JaVu

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - September 11, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour
Featuring the work of FENCE 37/38 contributors. In this episode, we begin with the poet Delicia Daniels, reading with the eerie lulling sound of the sea from poems based on chilling research into antebellum law archives. Next up is Jordan E. Franklin, reading the exuberant poem, "Sometime in Jan...

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3.1 FENCE 37/38 Stine An, Zosia Wiatr, Caitlyn Tella, Sara Duff, and music by KIKA

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - September 11, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour
Featuring the work of FENCE 37/38 contributors. The poems "celery" and "What's Wrong with?" by Stine An,  "Lover's Trilogy" by Zosia Wiatr, "Lil Miquela," "Sunnyvale," "Bad Actors," and "Confessionalisms"  by Caitlyn Tella.  poems "   The story "As Something Breaks" by Sara Duff.  Also including...

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3.1 FENCE 37/38 Stine An, Zosia Wiatr, Caitlyn Tella, Sara Duff, and music by KIKA

FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other - September 11, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour
Featuring the work of FENCE 37/38 contributors. The poems "celery" and "What's Wrong with?" by Stine An,  "Lover's Trilogy" by Zosia Wiatr, "Lil Miquela," "Sunnyvale," "Bad Actors," and "Confessionalisms"  by Caitlyn Tella.  poems "   The story "As Something Breaks" by Sara Duff.  Also including...

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The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Part 2

Grown-Up Book Report - August 29, 2021 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to Part 2 of our Grown-Up Book Report on Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Please listen to Part 1 before listening to this one or you will have no idea why this episode begins with a funeral. 

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The Secret History by Donna Tartt Part 1

Grown-Up Book Report - August 15, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
This week Carly made me read The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I have so many thoughts that it will take 2 pods to cover it all. If you haven't read The Secret History, don't worry, we'll go over the whole plot so you get our clever - or flippant - observations. And just in case you know nothin...

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Horns by Joe Hill Part 2

Grown-Up Book Report - August 01, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to the very first part 2 episode of Grown-Up Book Report. In this episode Lisa, a snarky Horror loving librarian made Carly, a snarky literary-loving librarian read Horns by Joe Hill. If you haven't read Horns, don't worry. Carly will summarize the whole plot so you get the context you n...

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Horns by Joe Hill Part 1

Grown-Up Book Report - July 18, 2021 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to the very first two-part episode of Grown-Up Book Report. In this episode Lisa, a snarky Horror loving librarian made Carly, a snarky literary-loving librarian read Horns by Joe Hill. If you haven't read Horns, don't worry. Carly will summarize the whole plot so you get the context you...

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Work Shirts for Madmen by George Singleton

Grown-Up Book Report - July 04, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 10 ratings
This week Carly made me read Work Shirts for Madmen by her good buddy George Singleton. Work Shirts for Madmen was published in 2008. It has never been a film or, as we will note, an audiobook. Check out the description below. Renegade artist Harp Spillman is lower than a bow-legged fire ant. B...

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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Grown-Up Book Report - June 20, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Once again I've roped Carly into reading a horror novel she never imagined would be part of her life - The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. The Exorcist was a bestseller upon its release fifty years ago. The first film adaptation starred Linda Blair in 1973. Both the novel and the film became h...

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Joe by Larry Brown

Grown-Up Book Report - June 06, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to Grown-Up Book Report, a podcast where two snarky librarians read each other's book recommendations. In this episode, Carly - the literary lover - made Joe by Larry Brown. Joe was originally published in 1991. It was made into a film starring Nicholas Cage in 2014.  Description: Joe R...

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The Shining by Stephen King

Grown-Up Book Report - May 22, 2021 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to the second episode of Grown-Up Book Report, a podcast where two snarky librarians read each other's book recommendations. In this episode, Lisa - the horror lover - made Carly read The Shining by Stephen King. The Shining was originally published in 1977 and became a film starring Jac...

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Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Grown-Up Book Report - May 21, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratings
Welcome to the premiere episode of Grown-Up Book Report, a podcast where two snarky librarians read each other's book recommendations. In this episode, Carly - the literary lover - made me read Winter's Bone, a literary novel set in the Ozarks. Winter's Bone was published in 2006 and became a fi...

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