Ivy Alvarez is a featured reader at the Verse Us 3 Live Poetry event, Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 7-9pm at One2one Cafe, 121 Ponsonby Road, Auckland. Special Guest Daren Kamali. Other featured readers include Fiona Stevens, Vana Manasiadis, Ria Masae, Tulia Thompson, Kate Kelly, Jamie Trower, Trisha Hanifin, and Fiona Perry. Free entry. Koha for charity.
Early in July 2019, there is to be a theatrical performance of Disturbance in Japan.
Sorcha Chisholm shares some thoughts on the production:
And so now I’ve been asked to join a production play based on a book of poems by Ivy Alvarez entitled “Disturbance”. The story tells of a domestic double murder suicide/surviving daughter/investigation/news-piece. It’s grim stuff to be sure.
Read the rest here.
Below are some images of the performers in rehearsal.
Three poems from Volume N of Diaspora features in LOR Journal.
Ivy Alvarez’s Diaspora poem, Nagkabuhul-buhol ang hininga, appears in Issue 17 of the American Poetry Journal.
Gaze Journal features Ivy Alvarez’s poem, Aristolochia grandiflora.