Tag: Alexis Rhodes

Welcome to Writers Resist Spring 2026 Issue

Welcome to the vibrant words and images of spring, celebrating the memory of Marsha P. Johnson, beloved and befamed transgender LGBTQ rights activist and Stonewall Inn heroine.

If you’d like the link to the virtual reading for this issue, 18 April at 5:00 pm PACIFIC, please email us at writersresist@gmail.com.

Now, join us and our contributing resisters, while we flip the flaming bird at the antis and revere all that proclaims our identities.

Why does a tranny cross a yellow brick road? by Mx. Asher

To David Lehman by Waverly Vernon

Run by JL Smither

Ahead of the Storm by Laura Ann Reed

Absent Hills by Johanna Haas

This Is the Way Our Words End— by Dennis Humphrey

Doomscrolling isn’t solidarity by Maxochitl Cortez

Warning by John L. Holgerson

Two Poems by Robin Michel

Trashy by M.R. Mandell

Duality of Dogma by Nardien Sadik

No Vacation by Raymond A. Mazurek

On the Road to Samarra by Marissa Glover

planning the ballroom by Alexis Rhodes

Pledge by Dion O’Reilly

When Should We Senior Women Not? by Ann Grogan

Choices by Alice Benson

planning the ballroom

By Alexis Rhodes

i watched him stroll the roof:
Queen of Hearts with a croquet mallet
surveying his kingdom.
placing
six hundred and fifty seats
in a ballroom yet to be built.

twirling ladies and
caviar truffle burgers danced
across his pupils
as he tossed cake to the crowd below.
Eat Me
it read.

a cheer, a crown
a light game of croquet on the
lawn he’ll cover in
gold tile.

servers poured a spiked Kool Aid cocktail
Drink Me
into the gaping maws of the thirsty throng
as he sipped Diet Coke.

and from his perch
he smiled.
did not hear the drums.

the crowd had come
to celebrate
Bastille Day.

Alexis Rhodes (she/her) is a queer, polyamorous poet, playwright, performer, and strategist based in North Carolina. Her poetry has been described as raw and confessional, with just enough humor to lighten the mood. Alexis has been published with Drip Lit Magazine, Orange Rose Literary Magazine, The Words Faire, Blood+Honey, and Wayfarer Magazine, and has forthcoming publications with Action, Spectacle, Ghost Light Lit, Phylum Press, and Half and One. She has completed five anthologies: Notes on a Narcissist, LONGING, Goddess, Spiked Crowns, and lex, your poetry’s grotesque, and is submitting to presses. Alexis lives with her husband, two kids, and a hedgehog named Hedge. Follow her on Instagram.

Photo Credit: Dennis Jarvis via a Creative Commons license.

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