In a recent review of Hay(na)ku 15 on Galatea Resurrects, Veronica Montes writes:
This poem, written by Ivy Alvarez, plays like a silent film. And I love the way the sound of susurrus/brushing and bamboo/roof play off of each other in the second tercet:
leaf
races me
up the hill
susurrus
of bamboo
brushing the roof
Two poems by Ivy Alvarez, ‘Naghalo ang lahat sa tinalupan’ and ‘Nahuli sa kamay’, feature in the Skin in the Game edition of Peril Magazine.
The hay(na)ku form, invented by the poet Eileen R. Tabios, celebrates its 15th anniversary with an anthology, Hay(na)ku 15.
Included are three of Ivy Alvarez’s hay(na)ku, a poem which previously appeared in The First Hay(na)ku Anthology — now translated into Spanish — and a citation of her response to the hay(na)ku form in Abraham Ignacio, Jr.’s Foreword.
Ivy Alvarez’s poem, Nakaisang-palad, features in Stilts Journal, Issue 2 of which launches at the Queensland Poetry Festival on 26 September 2018.
A poem from Ivy Alvarez’s next poetry collection, Diaspora, Vol. L, will soon appear in the anthology Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press), out August 2018.
