Ivy Alvarez
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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

April 14, 2017
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Ivy Alvarez reads with Ocean Vuong at Georgia Tech

April 15, 2017

Ivy Alvarez is one of my favourite contemporary poets, she challenges and soothes, and reads so beautifully. Seek her out.

Rachel Edwards, Transportation Press

Books

  • Diaspora: Volume L
  • Disturbance
  • The Everyday English Dictionary
  • Hollywood Starlet
  • Mortal

Poetry

  • Langit ang buhay
  • X
  • What Vivien Leigh Dropped
  • Holes
  • earth
  • Poems
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