Today's poem is "For the Sad Waitress at the Diner in Barstow"
from Enter Here
Alexis Rhone Fancher
is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart-stab poems (Sybaritic Press, 2014) and State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies (KYSO Flash Press, 2015). Her poems appear in more than 100 literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2016, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Rattle, The MacGuffin, Slipstream, Hobart, Cleaver Magazine, Poetry East, Fjords Review, Rust + Moth, Pirene's Fountain, and Askew; and her photographs have been published worldwide, including spreads in River Styx, Heart Online, and Rogue Agent, and on the covers of Heyday Magazine, Chiron Review, Witness, and The Mas Tequila Review. Her writing has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. A lifelong Angeleno, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly, where she also publishes a monthly photo-essay, "The Poet's Eye," about her on-going love affair with Los Angeles. From the S-curves of Topanga and the sprawling beaches of the Westside, to the stunning views of downtown L.A. from her 8th-floor loft studio, her beloved city can be construed as another character in her work.
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Other poems on the web by Alexis Rhone Fancher:
"Over It"
Four poems
Three poems
Five poems
Two poems
"I Was Hovering Just Below the Hospital Ceiling, Contemplating My Death"
Two poems
"June Fairchild Isn't Dead"
Thirty-six poems
Two poems
Alexis Rhone Fancher's Website.
About Enter Here:
"The latest collection of poems by award-winning author and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher. 'Lust, longing, urban noir, and the emotional ravages and physical heat that colliding souls can't help making, are all artfully packed into these lyrical narratives by a poet who refuses to hold back"
"Mixing heartbreak and hilarity, these poems deliver an emotional wallop with the ease of a woman rolling down her nylons"
"Alexis Rhone Fancher is not merely a detailed chronicler of our socio-physical interactionsshe is by far the most exciting, articulate, and convincing storyteller in contemporary verse"
"Any self-styled critic who characterizes Alexis Rhone Fancher's written work as only sexy stanzas would be making an egregious mistake. Far more accurate to portray her poetry as grainy, gritty, noir images by a female version of Henry Miller's bitter observation of the dirty word 'relationships,' or Georges Bataille's eccentric business of the creative woman at times catering to the psycho-sado fantasies of her lover, or Stephen Schneck's nightmare world of sensual dreams, but with an added dose of infectious humor"
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