I’m reading with other Omnidawn poets at AWP in San Antonio, Texas on Friday morning, March 6, 2020 at AWP Conference & Bookfair Stage Reading from 10:30-11:45 am.

I have poem drawings in the Art on Paper fair.

Here’s a wonderful review of Raft of Flame!

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-63243-081-6

https://www.omnidawn.com/product/raft-of-flame-desiree-alvarez/

I’ll be reading poetry at The Golden Notebook to launch Jo Sarzotti’s gorgeous new book, Waiting for Achilles.
Saturday, August 17, 2019 – 5:00pm
29 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
https://goldennotebook.indielite.org/event/poetry-jo-sarzotti-and-desiree-alvarez

I’m thrilled and honored to announce that my second book of poems will be published by Omnidawn in April 2020. Gratitude to Hoa Nguyen for selecting it as the book prize winner and to the four preliminary judges: Metta Sáma, Rajiv Mohabir, Stacy Szymaszek, and Orlando White.

I’m honored that my poem was a winner in the Whitman Bicentennial Poetry Contest sponsored by Brooklyn Poets and selected by Mark Doty! There will be commemorative chapbook and a reading at Smack Mellon in DUMBO on May 31. More info at brooklynpoets.org