Stevi-Lee Alver Archives

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize (supported by Southern Cross University) is for poems of up to fifty lines that respond to the theme ‘seeking asylum’. The prize celebrates the …

To Miscarry a Moon (Ojo Taiye)March 15, 2019
ELEGY FOR CLAUDIA PATRICIA GOMEZ GONZALEZ* i- every poem i write is about the same grief: how ordinary it is to want the American dream. i don’t know what Gomez ... Read More
Who Is He (And What Is He To You?) (Jesse Rice-Evans)October 9, 2018
after Grey’s Anatomy S13E16 If you’re having second thoughts, remember that it happens to all of us: knowing that sitting in windowless rooms becomes normal; the smeared latinate language that ... Read More
Inside my head <br> (Susan Hawthorne) </br>March 26, 2019
for my father Inside my head are patterns a quilt of paddocks seen from the cockpit of the Tiger Moth the coastline is drawn in waves, crumpled like silk maps ... Read More