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 at: https://youtu.be/W2HVIc4NrqY
http://www.susantepper.com

Sirens 

 By Susan Isla Tepper

blared warnings to people:
Vacate your cars
and start walking.
 
Humid and the sweat
rolled off and
a little girl a few feet
in front of us
asked her dad
Is this the end of the world?
 
I strained to hear
but maybe he didn’t answer.
 
Everyone mostly stuck to the highway
choices for walking
were limited.
 
Always the case with the end—
choices are few
if  any.

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. 

Find her at: www.alexisrhonefancher.com