Elvis Alves is the author of three full length collections of poetry and three chapbooks. His book I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing (2018) was awarded the Jacopone Da Todi Poetry Prize sponsored by Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio. Bitter Melon was published in 2013 and Blackfish was published in 2022. His latest project is the chapbook This Is What I Know (2023). Poetry Magazine featured Elvis’s poem, Parchman Prison, in its February 2021 issue on mass incarceration in America. Elvis’s poetry has appeared in Transition, Sojourners, Caribbean Writer Journal, and other publications. Elvis also writes for the Good Men Project, an online site that calls attention to pertinent issues affecting our society and world and that seeks to redress these issues.
Elvis Alves was born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He holds degrees from Colgate University and Princeton Theological Seminary.
Books
Bitter Melon (2013), Ota Benga (2017), I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing (2018), Black/White: We are Not Panic (Pandemic) Free (2020), Blackfish (2022), This Is What I know (2023).
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Elvis has completed two new full length poetry collections and a short story collection and is shopping these around. He is open to be represented by a reputable literary agent and publicist. Serious inquiries only. He is available to do readings at bookstores, institutions, and organizations.
1. Salmon Poetry Press: Podcast Featuring Elvis Alves
2. Blackfish Launch at Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn (YouTube Video)
3. Ota Benga (Video)
Events
Arcadia University, Glenside, PA, 09/25/2023
Newtown Bookshop, Newtown, PA, 10/12/2023
Email: Elvis.O.Alves@gmail.com