Alfred Fournier

Alfred Fournier is the author of King of Beers (2025, Rinky Dink Press) and A Summons on the Wind (2023, Kelsay Books). His poems have appeared in Gyroscope Review, Half and One, The Sunlight Press, South Florida Poetry Journal and elsewhere, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He lives in the foothills of South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and daughter and two birdwatching cats.

Encounter At The Monterey Bay Aquarium

By Alfred Fournier / October 30, 2026

“Their brains are showing, Mommy!” declared the child of the crowned jellyfish, dozens of them, undulating

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Flight

By Alfred Fournier / January 25, 2025

There’s a guy who flies model planesover the green expanse of parkon mornings when the weather’s

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Compost

By Alfred Fournier / September 4, 2024

How was I supposed to knowthat every onionskin and turned tomato,carrottop and unfinished plate of rice—not

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Overheard

By Alfred Fournier / April 9, 2024

“I’ve got a car full of snakes,” I would have sworn I heard the dad say

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