Ivy Raff

Ivy Raff is the author of What Remains (Editorial DALYA, forthcoming 2025), a bilingual English/Spanish poetry collection that won the Alberola International Poetry Prize, and Rooted and Reduced to Dust (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Poems and translations appear in Ninth Letter, International Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Electric Literature, and West Trade Review, among numerous others, as well as in the anthologies London Independent Story Prize Anthology (LISP, 2023), and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize Annual (Aesthetica, 2023). Her Best of the Net-nominated work has garnered support from the Colgate Writers’ Conference, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the New York Mills Cultural Center, and Under the Volcano. Ivy serves artist communities as MacDowell's Senior Systems Project Manager, and, as a Jewish artist and a human, advocates for a free Palestine.
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    Empty basilica, wood slat / walls, white Jesus expressionless. / Blue eyes and blue eyes and blue / eyes and more inaccuracies / in the courtyard.
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