FENCE open
Hello everyone, The 2028 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize is OPEN for submissions. Check out this recent Fence Modern Poets Series book by Kathryn Cowles, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor; click the photo to read more about it: Delicia Daniels, Fence poetry editor, will judge this round of the Fence Modern Poets Series! Delicia Daniels is a poet, activist, and person who stutters. Her first publication, The Language We Cry In, was selected as the Discovery Prize winner for the 2017 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards. Her second poetry collection, Abolition Chronicles , was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize, The 2023 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, and the 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize. Derrick Austin selected Abolition Chronicles as a runner-up for the 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. Daniels holds...
