“
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...
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—Michelle Bitting, author of The Couple Who Fell
to Earth, Notes to the Beloved, and Good Friday Kiss
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The perfect book for a wind-tossed stormy night: Enter Here, a collection of sophisticated poems with erotic overtones.... I open my copy as Hurricane Irma starts to smash through.... Soon it’s 3 a.m., and hurricane-force winds start to howl while rains roar down. The electricity goes out and stays out. Reading by candlelight, I am glued to the pages of Enter Here. The fierceness of the storm echoes the fierceness of the women in this collection of poems...
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—From Fearless Poems About Sex and Power...
by Eileen Murphy in the Los Angeles Review of Books (30 November 2017)
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• Poet and critic Edward Hirsch selected Rhone Fancher’s poem “When I turned fourteen, my mother’s sister took me to lunch and said:” for Best American Poetry 2016. On 3 April 2018, at Poets House in Manhattan, Hirsch read the poem, along with Rhone Fancher’s commentary.
• Alexis Rhone Fancher served as Guest Poetry Editor for SHJ:17.
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I write about women like me, women who own their sexuality and take
responsibility for their choices. It may seem I’m writing about
sex, but really, I’m writing about power. Who has it.
How to get it. How to wield it. How to keep it.
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—From “Featured Fem” Alexis Rhone Fancher,
interviewed by The Fem literary magazine (17 June 2016)
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