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The Poet's Eye

On The Pier

By Alexis Rhone Fancher on August 2, 2017 in Lifestyle

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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, you can’t beat the South Bay in summertime for simple pleasures.

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Modern Day Huckleberry Finn

Modern Day Huckleberry Finn

Boy and Gulls Together

Boy and Gulls Together

Beautiful Day By The Water

Beautiful Day By The Water

Right Here, Dad!

Right Here, Dad!

I Can See My House From Here

I Can See My House From Here

Queen Mary Trompe L'Oeil

Queen Mary Trompe L’Oeil

Step Back A Little

Step Back A Little

Enjoy All Sorts Of Tourist Activities

Enjoy All Sorts Of Tourist Activities

Beach To Go

Beach To Go

Baby's First Beach Day

Baby’s First Beach Day

Walking The Promenade With Grandma

Walking The Promenade With Grandma

Beach Overview

Beach Overview

Margarita Time

Margarita Time

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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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