Ivy Alvarez extends best wishes and congratulations to Gregory Kan, Makyla Curtis, Jamie Trower, Chris Tse, and Louise Wallace, whose work features in Best New Zealand Poems 2017, and which she had initially selected for the New Zealand/Aotearoa edition of Atlanta Review.
Only 25 poets appear in Best New Zealand Poems — that five of the poems initially chosen for Atlanta Review are also fêted in this way is worthy of celebration.
Ivy Alvarez is a selected mentor for one of the 2018 recipients for the New Zealand Society of Authors’ Youth Mentorship programme.
The 2018 recipients for the NZSA Youth Mentorship programme are Xiaole Zhan from Westlake Girls High School in Auckland, Elise Sadlier from Gisborne Girls’ High School, Anthony Pita from Rosmini College in Auckland, and Cybella Maffitt from St Cuthberts College in Auckland. They will work on their writing projects under the guidance of Karyn Hay, Sue Wootton, Anna Mackenzie, and Ivy Alvarez.
Ivy Alvarez joins MC Vaughan Rapatahana and other poets reading at LOUNGE on Wednesday, 18 April 2018, starting from 5.30 pm.
Ivy Alvarez’s poem, Ligaw-tingin, features in Flash Frontier.
Stemming from a series of poems that responds to Filipino idiomatic expressions, this is the second poem to appear in the journal.
Ivy Alvarez, Jamie Trower and Vaughan Rapatahana feature as guest poets at the Titirangi Poets and Atlanta Review event.
Hosted by Piers Davies, the event starts at 2pm on Saturday, 10th March 2018, at the Titirangi Library, 500 South Titirangi Road, Titirangi.
