Two poems from Ivy Alvarez’s The Everyday English Dictionary appears in a forthcoming issue of Tasmanian online literary journal Communion.
Two poems from Ivy Alvarez’s The Everyday English Dictionary appears in a forthcoming issue of Tasmanian online literary journal Communion.
Three of Ivy Alvarez’s poems, “Nagdaan sa bithay“, “Nagbubuhat ng sariling bangko“, and “Nag-aagaw-buhay“, are now live on Red Room Poetry.
In May 2017, she received a commission from Red Room Poetry, as part of the Red Room Poetry Fellowship shortlisting.
These poems are part of a series that responds to Filipino idioms.
For more of Ivy Alvarez’s poems at Red Room Poetry, visit her profile page.
Jeremy Dixon of Hazard Press acquires a copy of Ivy Alvarez’s The Everyday English Dictionary at a recent London Poetry Book Fair.
Bought books by people I know at @HollandAndreaUK & @IvyAlvarez at the #PoetryBookFair pic.twitter.com/duVixXfoIB
— Jeremy Dixon (@HazardPressUK) September 30, 2017
Paloma Press’s chapbook anthology, After Irma After Harvey, is a fundraising project by its editors, Aileen Cassinetto and C. Sophia Ibardaloza, created in support of hurricane-displaced animals. Containing poems by Ivy Alvarez, Mary Kasimor, Agnes Marton, Lisa Suguitan Melnick and Eileen R. Tabios, all proceeds will be donated to the Animal Defense League of Texas and the Jacksonville Humane Society.
As 2017 Auckland City Chair for National Flash Fiction Day, Ivy Alvarez shares highlights from the event, her thoughts on fiction, and her poem, “Horse-drawn slave”, on Flash Frontier.