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For GloPoWriMo 15

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Excerpt from “Black hairy tongue with sweet and sour sauce”:

ignore that it is a tongue that rests
on your tongue — the meat is sweet

caused by bacteria or fungi in the mouth
appearing black and hairy, not pretty

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Nominated for 2016 Bettering American Poetry

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Ivy Alvarez reads with Ocean Vuong at Georgia Tech

April 15, 2017

… an incredible collection.

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  • Disturbance
  • The Everyday English Dictionary
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From the Blog

Documentary / Dokumentaryo

June 25, 2022

Ivy Alvarez's prose poem Documentary / Dokumentaryo is printed in poster form in English with...

Featured on takahē magazine

April 14, 2022

Ivy Alvarez is the Guest Fiction Writer for issue 104 of takahē magazine with her...

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  • Disturbance
  • The Everyday English Dictionary
  • Hollywood Starlet
  • Mortal