Fences - Triple Canopy

Fences
Saretta Morgan

A digital project, part of Resentment

Saretta Morgan is the author of the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017) as well as the full-length collection Plan Upon Arrival (Three Count Pour/Selva Oscura, 2020). Her most recent writing considers black migration to the Southwest, particularly as it relates to natural resource management, Indigenous histories and contemporary border policies. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Saretta is a poetry editor at Aster(ix) Journal as well as African American Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she supports the immigration detention center visitation program Mariposas Sin Fronteras and the humanitarian aid initiatives of No More Deaths Phoenix. She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.

“Fences” was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Immaterial Literature project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Opaline Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Federation and Endowment Fund.

Tags: Poetry

25 Resentment

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A Sound Not Unlike a Bell, by Wendy Xu
The Victor, by Pooneh Rohi with Kira Josefsson & Kaneza Schaal
An Airing of Grievances, by Rahel Aima, Wo Chan, Marwa Helal, Devin Kenny, Jennifer Krasinski, Sarah Resnick, Matthew Shen Goodman & Emily Wang
Do Nut Diagram, by Aki Sasamoto
Banners for Resentment, by José León Cerrillo, Jaya Howey, Ulrike Müller, Ebecho Muslimova, Willa Nasatir & Anicka Yi
Promissory Note, by Mike Crane & Kareem Rabie
On Resentment: A Film Series, by Triple Canopy & Brooklyn Academy of Music
Eternal Employment, by Goldin+Senneby & Lina Ekdahl
WORKBOOK, by Jesse Chun
The Pearl Diver’s Revenge, by S*an D. Henry-Smith & Imani Elizabeth Jackson
What Could I Have Said with a Mouthful of Salt, by S*an D. Henry-Smith & Imani Elizabeth Jackson
Fences, by Saretta Morgan
The Devil in Connecticut, by Jacqueline Feldman
Aconite, My Roots, by Henry Zhang
Join the Informants!, by The New Red Order

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