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.

Other poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher in Verse Daily:
October 14, 2017:   "For the Sad Waitress at the Diner in Barstow" "beyond the kitchen 's swinging door..."

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"I Was Hovering Just Below the Hospital Ceiling, Contemplating My Death"
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About Enter Here:

"I can't get enough of Alexis Rhone Fancher's brave, breath-taking work, and her latest poetry collection, Enter Here, once again offers sustenance for the insatiable story-lovers among us hungry for more. Celebrating the sexual body, the exhilaration of desire, and outrageous truths of love gone right and sometimes beguilingly askew, Rhone Fancher owns her unabashed sensual history and boldly brings it to the page like AnaÏs Nin who knew 'how wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.' If her poems soar into taboo and transgressive terrain without apology, it is not entirely without a degree of pathos, remorse, and occasionally, sly humor.

Ultimately, it is stark revelation of human behavior that resonates so powerfully through this poet's skillful attention to detail as well as her deft ear for the music of what needs to be left out. 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, because she knows

'we are each bodies, hard-wired for pleasure,

destined for momentary blooming,

then extinction.'"
—Michelle Bitting