Interview with Ivy Alvarez and Lee Herrick: Part Two

The Boxcar Poetry Review publishes part two of an informal conversation/interview between poets Ivy Alvarez and Lee Herrick. Click here to read. Click here for Part I.

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Craig Perez Reviews Mortal

Craig Santos Perez reviews Ivy Alvarez' Mortal for the Boxcar Poetry Review. He says, "Alvarez resists the poetic tendency to simply name-drop mythic characters in the hopes of giving a banal poetic moment mythic quality. Instead, Alvarez gives the mythic characters personality and depth, setting them in modern-day situations."

Click here to read the entire review.

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Alvarez Reviews MML Bliss

RMP author Ivy Alvarez reviews Moonshine, a chapbook by MML Bliss (published by PressPress). The review is posted at Galatea Resurrects. Click here to read it.

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Mortal Reviewed in Currajah

A review of Ivy Alvarez' Mortal appears online at Currajah. Here's what reviewer Patricia Prime has to say:

"The achievement of the poems in this collection lies in part in their counterpoising of the profoundly personal with a kind of objectivist impersonality, with the discovery of idioms in which the two can co-exist.

Mortal is a fascinating text containing a fluid sense of time, place, individual and family which generates complexes of meaning and feeling with which most readers will be able to empathise. Alvarez’s use of sentence and paragraph in her prose poems and, elsewhere, her use of stanzas, minimal punctuation, rhythm and assonance, and her ability to use both structures in a very accomplished and meaningful way, make for constantly thought-provoking reading."

To read the entire review, click here.

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Call for Submissions: Ivy Alvarez Guest Edits qarrtsiluni

The November/December of qarrtsiluni, an online literary journal, will be co-edited by RMP author Ivy Alvarez. The theme is Insecta. From the call for submissions:

"For this issue of qarrtsiluni, we are interested in art — poem, painting, story, nonfiction, photograph — inspired by insects. We are equally interested in writing about insects, being just as enamored by Thoreau’s ant battle in Walden as Frost’s butterflies, “Tossed, tangled, whirled and whirled above, / Like a limp rose-wreath in a fairy dance.”

The deadline to submit is December 15. For more info about the journal and how to submit, visit www.qarrtsiluni.com.

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Concelebratory Shoehorn Review Publishes Ivy Alvarez

A poem by RMP author Ivy Alvarez appears in the No. 11 issue of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review. Click here for the site.

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