Alexis Rhone Fancher – Orbit
Orbit “Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered ‘Quasi-Moon,’ a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun” – The Smithsonian Magazine, 2025 I orbit you the way the Earth does the Sun, shining in your castoff, dancing in your heat. I’ve made myself a gift to you, an homage to your body, your humor, […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher – A Nickel For Every Time
A Nickel For Every Time December, again. Bare trees scarecrow the woods. The crunch of leaves underfoot reminds me of those jawbreakers she used to mouth, cracking at them with her back teeth until a molar broke. She’s stubborn like that. Check out her eyes when she’s not getting her way; there’s a storm brewing. […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s Brazen, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Brazen Alexis Rhone Fancher NYQ Books Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Anyone even slightly familiar with Alexis Rhone Fancher’s work knows that she doesn’t shy away from sexually charged and raunchy poetry. Her collected works for NYQ Books is called Erotic, for example. Her latest, Brazen, continues the tradition of poems that ooze with fierce and bold […]
Beat Not Beat, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Beat Not Beat: An Anthology of California Poets Screwing on the Beat and Post-Beat Generation Edited by Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Kim Shuck Moon Tide Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Beat Not Beat, edited by Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Alexis Rhone Fancher, and Kim Shuck, may be an anthology inspired by the Beat […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher – On Fire
On Fire “Nothing good happens after midnight.” — Joe Kenda Singed. The moon, smudged against the night. A bonfire at Venice Beach. Tangerine flames torch the dark. You lick me. When I come, you pull away. Next morning: A note slipped under your door. No one escapes unscathed. You think I mean kindling. Over cocktails: […]
