Alyse Bensel, Poet

Alyse & ME talk about Alyse’s writing & about the 4th Annual Poetry Fair in Lawrence, KS on April 15, 2017! The fair includes readings, networking & books to buy. Info at https://lawrenceartscenter.org/event/poetry-fair-2017/

Alyse Bensel’s poems have most recently appeared in The Adroit Journal, New South, Quarterly West, Tinderbox, The Collapsar, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Not of Their Own Making (dancing girl press, 2014) and Shift (Plan B Press). She serves as the Book Reviews Editor at The Los Angeles Review, a literary journal from Red Hen Press. Alyse is also a PhD candidate in Literary Studies & Creative Writing at the U of Kansas, where she is a 2017-2018 Richard & Jeannette Sias Fellow in the Humanities, and will be in residence at the Hall Center for the Humanities Fall 2017. Follow Alyse at twitter.com/leaseandleaves & http://www.alysebensel.com/