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Today's poem is "How to Conquer"

from Southern Indiana Review

Alyse Bensel is the author of Rare Wondrous Things: A Poetic Biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (Green Writers Press, 2020) and three chapbooks. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Indiana Review, and West Branch. She serves as Poetry Editor for Cherry Tree and teaches at Brevard College, where she directs the Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference.

Books by Alyse Bensel:

Other poems on the web by Alyse Bensel:
Two poems
"On Poisonous Snakes in Puerto Rico"
"Ivy in Every Parallel Universe"
Two poems
"Extinction Theory"
"Anoles"
Two poems
"Your Eye is a Red Dwarf Planet"

Alyse Bensel's Website.

Alyse Bensel on Twitter.

About Southern Indiana Review:

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Poetry Editor: Matthew R. Graham
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