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For GloPoWriMo 19

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Excerpt from “We want to pay”:

the fare rises higher and we go faster, past the sun’s face
and I peel some notes for the driver, cash fingers, fondling finished

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Longlisted for Red Room Poetry Fellowship

April 19, 2017

The ‘hyperbolic real’ is a term that might also describe the poetic light and sound that Ivy Alvarez brings to ‘salty slurry’ in her poem ‘Nabagoóng’.

Stephanie Jones & Charne Lavery, Wasafiri

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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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