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Alexis Ivy

Poet

Books

BOOKS

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       Taking the Homeless Census

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Romance with Small-Time Crooks

BIO

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Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is the author of Romance with Small-Time Crooks (BlazeVOX [books], 2013), and Taking the Homeless Census (Saturnalia Books, 2020) which won the 2018 Saturnalia Editors Prize. She is co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (West Virginia University Press, 2023)   She lives in her hometown Boston, working as an advocate for the homeless, and teaching in the PoemWorks community.

IN THE PRESS

 

 

Ivy’s poems are sharp and unflinching…there’s a dangerous beauty in all the dangerous and dirty corners.

 

-Karen Weyant,

Rain Taxi Review of Books

 

…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

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

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Upcoming Readings

UPCOMING READINGS

PAST 

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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

Upcoming Readings

SERVICES

POETRY WORKSHOP

ALEXIS IVY’S FALL 2023 WORKSHOPS

ZOOM & IN-PERSON Sept-Dec

CLASSIC, PERSONA & GENERATIVE

CLASSIC      These workshops are held in Barbara Helfgott Hyett style- start with poetry biz, then study a published poem, and then do a workshop round.  If there is time we will have a lightening round of a second poem that is discussed in a shortened timed.  We end the session with a freewrite. 

The one generative writing workshop is a workshop consisting of three activities for poem-starters as well as taking a failed poem and bringing to the "ta-da" state with some poetic interrogation.

The one persona workshop we will be studying the persona poem and doing multiple activities where you will literally be someone or something else.  Lots of new poems will start here.  The second half of the class will be a regular ‘shop where you bring an already written persona poem for us to look at.  

6 Workshops 7-9:30pm Tuesdays:

September 19th, October 3rd, 10,   November 14th, 28th, December 5/12

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Specialty Workshops 7-9:30pm Tuesdays:

Generative: September 26th

Persona: October 17th

Prices:

six regular workshops: $270

a la cart: $50

specialty workshop: $60

all eight workshops: $360

 

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/

 

CONTACT

For any inquiries, please contact Alexis Ivy:

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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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