Photography © Alexis Rhone Fancher

 

What is it you’re looking for

No one is coming
to save you
get used to it.

Surely by this time
you’ve realized
your dilemma.

The sky will remain perfect.

Vagaries of time
your daily intake.

If you rupture before
you feel ready

Only be sad a moment.

 

Susan Isla Tepper presented her darkly comic play Clandestine in an Equity Premiere Staged-reading, hosted by SHOPTALK, on June 10 at EAG Guild Hall Theatre, NYC. Her latest Novel Hair of a Fallen Angel was published by Spuyten Duyvil Books. A twenty-year writer, she’s written 12 published books of fiction and poetry and 7 stage plays. Honors include 21 Pushcart Prize Nominations. Her play The Crooked Heart concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review. A Youtube music video for her latest novel can be found here.

Photographer/poet Alexis Rhone Fancher’s photographs are published world-wide, including the covers of The Pedestal Magazine, Witness, Heyday, Pithead Chapel, and The Mas Tequila Review. A Picture is Worth a Poet’s Words, a book of her photos of over 100 Southern California poets will publish in early 2026 (Moon Tide Press). She calls the Mojave Desert home.