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Today's poem is "There is Only One Ocean"

from Southern Indiana Review

Robert Wood Lynn is a poet from Virginia and the author of the collection Mothman Apologia. Winner of the 2021 Yale Younger Poets Prize and 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, his work has been featured in American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review and other publications. A recipient of a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, he splits his time between Rockbridge County, VA and Brooklyn, NY where he co-runs the DGN Reading Series.

Other poems by Robert Wood Lynn in Verse Daily:
March 16, 2023:   ""From the List of My Fears"" "We were, once again, Orpheus's incompetence...."
January 28, 2021:   "Voicemail From My Mother" "You know, I haven't heard from you in a while. Did I tell you..."

Books by Robert Wood Lynn:

Other poems on the web by Robert Wood Lynn:
Two poems
"The Summer After the Winter I Taught You How to Start a Fire"
"Hundred Year"
Two poems
"Aftermath"
"Augury"
"The Big Book of Little Frauds"
"(The Mothman Watches a TV Movie and Resolves to Steal the Declaration of Independence)"
"Opportunity"
"Don't Imagine Sisyphus at All"
"Inscription for the Surface of the Moon"
"Luck Left Over for Those Who Lose Games of Russian Roulette"
"The Difference Between a Poem and a Joke"
"On Account of Getting His Leg Broke by New York City"
"I Wanted to be a New York Love Poem"

Robert Lynn's Website.

Robert Lynn on Twitter.

About Southern Indiana Review:

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Southern Indiana Review * College of Liberal Arts * 8600 University Boulevard * Evansville, Indiana 47712
Poetry Editor: Matthew R. Graham
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March 29, 2022:   "Touch Cave" by Erika Meitner
March 28, 2022:   "Family with Dreams Cut Out" by Jenny Molberg
September 26, 2021:   "How to Conquer" by Alyse Bensel
September 23, 2021:   "Wife for Scale" by Maggie Smith
September 22, 2021:   "Night thinks it's crying again" by Kelli Russell Agodon
July 16, 2021:   "Eros as asteroid" by Julia Koets
June 25, 2021:   "How to Make Your Own Automaton" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
June 24, 2021:   "Poem for Tucker Carlson's Face" by Paul Guest
September 17, 2020:   "I Ask My Sister's Ghost to Play a Game of Cribbage" by Ben Gucciardi
September 16, 2020:   "Open Letter on Absent Friends" by Mary Biddinger
September 15, 2020:   "I Have So Little to Offer this World" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 11, 2020:   "Luster" by Jess Smith
July 9, 2020:   "Alcohol" by Natasha Sajé
July 8, 2020:   "Professor Marva Stewart's Funeral Service at Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel, Paine College" by Kamilah Aisha Moon
July 9, 2019:   "Lion" Brian Tierney
July 8, 2019:   "Composition" Rebecca Hazelton
July 20, 2017:   "Rain, New Year's Eve" by Alyse Bensel
July 19, 2017:   "Dr. Harry Harlow's Primate Laboratory" by Sarah Rose Nordgren  "I was cut down like a fruit..."
July 18, 2017:   "Elegy for the Travel Agents" by Christopher Citro
July 13, 2017:   "Silent Anniversary" by George David Clark
July 12, 2017:   "Goldenrod" by Alyse Bensel
December 6, 2015:   "O Mercy Me" by Rebecca Gayle Howell
November 27, 2014:   "Event" by Blas Falconer
December 15, 2011:   "Actual Animals" by Brian Tierney
December 14, 2011:   "Endurance" by Richard Jackson
February 26, 2010:   "(it was so hot...)" by Matthew Guenette
July 20, 2009:   "These Gods are Known by the Shapes of Their Teeth" by John M. Anderson
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