Riding the Bookends of Life: From Life Force to Loss with Poet Alexis Rhone Fancher
“For many people, they feel I give them permission to tell their truth.”
Poet, photographer, and artist Alexis Rhone Fancher returns to In the Balance to discuss her unapologetic and exquisitely done poetry. She tells us that her work stems from two different perspectives of the life force: eroticism and grief, evoking images and experiences from true life, a way of “trying to figure things out and laying it out on the page.” She and Susan discuss how to be creative while in quarantine, why writing erotica is not the same as writing pornography, and why we all should read poetry.
Meet This Episode's Guest
ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER
Los Angeles poet, Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, Plume, Tinderbox, Cleaver, Diode, The American Journal of Poetry, Nashville Review, Poetry East, and elsewhere. She’s authored six poetry collections, most recently, Junkie Wife (Moon Tide Press, 2018), and The Dead Kid Poems (KYSO Flash Press, 2019). EROTIC: New & Selected (NYQ Books) dropped in March, 2021, and her seventh collection, Stiletto Killer, will publish (in Italian) from Edizioni Ensemble, Italia in mid-2021. Her photographs are featured worldwide including the covers of Witness, and The Pedestal Magazine. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.
Read more of Alexis’s poetry, view her photography and more on her website: www.alexisrhonefancher.com
