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Alexis Rhone Fancher

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Poet/photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, The New York Times, Petrichor, The MacGuffin, Plume, Tinderbox, Diode, Nashville Review, Wide Awake, Poets of Los Angeles, Pirene’s Fountain, Cleaver, Glass, Rust + Moth, Duende, The American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Her books include: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen & other heart stab poems (Sybaritic Press, 2014), State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, (2015), Enter Here, (2017), and The Dead Kid Poems, (2019), and Junkie Wife (Moon Tide Press, 2018), an autobiographical chapbook chronicling Alexis’s first, disastrous marriage. She’s been published in over 60 anthologies, including the best-selling Nasty Women Poets (Lost Horse Press, 2017), Terrapin Books’ A Constellation of Kisses, (2019),and Antologia di poesia femminile americana contemporanea, (Edizioni Ensemble, Italia, 2018). Her photographs have been published worldwide, including the covers of Witness, Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, Heyday, and Pithead Chapel, and a spread in River Styx. A multiple Pushcart Prize, Best Short Fiction, and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis has been poetry editor of Cultural Weekly since late 2012. She and her husband live 20 miles outside of downtown L.A., in a small beach community overlooking the Pacific. They have an extraordinary view.

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Meet the Judges – 2020 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on July 15, 2020

TONY GLOEGGLER is a life long resident of NYC who’s managed a group home for developmentally disabled men for 40 years. His poems started appearing... Read more →
Poetry

Submit Here

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on June 9, 2020

Note: The Submission Period has closed. We'll be back in June, 2021! 3 WINNERS will receive $200 each, plus publication. 6 FINALISTS will receive... Read more →
Poetry

Poets, Get Ready!

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on June 3, 2020

Cultural Weekly’s 8th Annual “Jack Grapes Poetry Prize” begins on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020. This contest is FREE to enter. We will publish... Read more →
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Ma Jian: “Surrender”

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on January 8, 2020

Surrender Translated by Julie O. from Chinese into English   Surrender, cockroaches! When facing the brutal policemen Cast your gas... Read more →
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Alexis Rhone Fancher: Two Poems

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on October 24, 2019

ACCUSTOMED TO DEAD KIDs (sung to Lerner & Lowe’s “Accustomed To Her Face” from My Fair Lady.) 1. I’ve grown accustomed to dead... Read more →
Poetry

Jack Grapes Poetry Prize: An International Success!

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on September 11, 2019

The 7th Annual Jack Grapes Poetry Prize has surpassed all expectations and was by far our biggest, most far-reaching contest yet! We were excited to... Read more →
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Kim Dower, Francesca Bell & Alexis Rhone Fancher: Three Poems

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on June 12, 2019

Dreaming Helen Keller Always the interminable spelling             on my inadequate... Read more →
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Poets Get Ready!

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on June 5, 2019

Jack Grapes Poetry Prize 2019 Cultural Weekly’s 7th Annual Jack Grapes Poetry Prize is now open. This contest is FREE to enter. This is the... Read more →
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On The Pier

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on August 2, 2017

Fishing off the San Pedro pier, a day trip to lunch on the Queen Mary, permanently docked in the Port of Long Beach, or a dip in the warm Pacific,... Read more →
Poetry

Poets Respond! The Poetry of Social Justice

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on July 26, 2017

Poet activist, Kelly Grace Thomas runs a monthly workshop series in Los Angeles called the Poetry of Social Justice, where poets of diverse ages and... Read more →
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