
Alexis Ivy
Poet
BIO

Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry. Her first poetry collection, Romance with Small-Time Crooks was published in 2013 by BlazeVOX [book] and her second collection, Taking the Homeless Census (Saturnalia Books, 2020) won the 2018 Editors Prize at Saturnalia Books. Her most recent poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Sugar House Review, Saranac Review, and Poetry East. She teaches in the PoemWorks Community in Boston.
IN THE PRESS
Ivy’s poems are sharp and unflinching…there’s a dangerous beauty in all the dangerous and dirty corners.
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-Karen Weyant,
Rain Taxi Review of Books
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…Ivy points to the universal human experience whenever she can, reminding us that the grittiness is not so far removed from anything or anyone else.
-Anne Champion, [PANK] Magazine
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The poems of a survivor who sheds her delusions, poem by poem, as she investigates her life with honesty and courage and a poetic gift that comes damn close to redeeming it all—redeeming us all.
-Richard Hoffman, author of Emblem
UPCOMING READINGS
PAST 2021
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New Orleans Poetry Festival
Reading with Saturnalia Poets
Kristi Maxwell, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Timothy Liu
April 15, 2021, 8:00 pm EST
join on Zoom:
https://nolapoetry.zoom.us/j/99830417505
details at:
https://nolapoetry.com/node/428
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Defunkt Magazine
Friday, May 7th 8pm
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Boston Book Festival's Lit Crawl
June 10th 6pm-9pm
Central Square, Cambridge
LIVE
SERVICES
POETRY WORKSHOP
ALEXIS IVY’S WINTER 2023 WORKSHOPS
ZOOM & IN-PERSON April-June
CLASSIC & SPECIALTY
Each form (Formal & Untraditional) workshop will come with a “how-to” packet that has definitions, activities, and poem examples to review before we meet. Our class will consist of discussing the themed form, tips in writing that form, and more in-depth discussions on published poems that use the style of our themed class. We also will do a short activity as a group. We then will workshop for the second half of class. Bring a poem of yours with the workshop theme. The classes will be small so we can spend time with the teaching of these forms as well as pay closer attention to your work as a poem and as a structure during our time together.
GENERATIVE The class will consist of a series of writing prompts-- lots of writing for new poem beginnings! This is the 'shop if you're looking to get some new material cooking. Bring paper, a writing utensil and imagination.
DATES:
Workshops on Tuesdays, 7pm-9:30, all on Zoom (max of 8 participants)
April 11, 18, May 2, 9, 23, June 6
Workshops on Sundays, 2pm-4:30, in person (max of 8 participants)
May 21 & June 11
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Form workshops, on Zoom Tuesday May 16th 7pm-9:30 (max of 6 participants)
Generative workshop on Zoom Tuesday June 13th 7pm-9:30 (max of 8 participants)
FEES:
10 workshops $400
8 workshops $360
4 workshops $190
a la carte:
1 form workshop: $60
1 generative workshop: $50
1 regular workshop: $50
pOETRY RETREAT
NATURE IN TRANSLATION:
A POETRY WRITING WEEKEND
@ 26 Split Rock Cove
South Thomaston, Maine
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6TH - MONDAY, OCTOBER 9TH
WITH ALEXIS IVY AND ERIC HYETT
More info:
https://26splitrockcove.com/workshop/nature-in-translation-a-poetry-writing-weekend/
Poems
Reviews
Interviews
CONTACT
For any inquiries, please contact Alexis Ivy:
Alexis teaches in the PoemWorks community. For information regarding upcoming workshops and/or to schedule private sessions please query by email
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