Meet Alva, the protagonist of writer L.S. McKee’s series of poems exploring a woman’s experience across various landscapes, including the contemporary American South. Made in collaboration with sound designer Ben Williams, McKee takes us through a series of psychic spaces – dreams, doctor’s offices, online dating platforms – finding beauty and horror along the way.

recorded 2019 at The Collapsable Hole

produced by Ben Williams

these poems were published in the following journals:

Alva and the Vanishing Woman: Oversound

Alva and the Mockingbird: Birmingham Poetry Review

Alva and the Magnetic Resonance: Michigan Quarterly Review

Lonesome Beast: Fusion Magazine

Alva on Getting Dumped in the Desert: New Madrid

Alva and the Online Fishermen: New Madrid

Alva and the Asteroid: Muse/A (now Birdcoat Quarterly)

Alva and the Complex Pool: Georgia Review

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both Alva and the Laundromat Cosmology and Biopsy Beast first appear in category : other

BIOPSY BEAST MIX 1

category : other is a home for experimental audio