For Code Switch's summer book series on freedom, I spoke to Alvarez about her 2004 poetry collection, The Woman I Kept to Myself, in which she explores all her different selves — the little girl ...

One of the poems that inspired Alvarez once she was in the U.S. was “I, Too” from the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. In the poem, Hughes wrote: “Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table ...

In her poem, Julia Alvarez wonders how poetry itself would be affected by the pandemic. “Will poems be the only safe spaces where we can gather together,” she writes.

Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined is a co-production of Latino Public Broadcasting, Bosch & Company, Inc. and ITVS in association with American Masters.. About American Masters Now in its 39th ...

Alvarez has been behind three nonfiction books, three poetry collections, 11 children/young adult books and seven literary novels. “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” includes eatures extensive ...

Timed to Hispanic Heritage Month, "Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined" will premiere on Tuesday, Sept, 17 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS.

Alvarez attends Connecticut College from 1967 to 1969, where she wins the Benjamin T. Marshall Poetry Prize. She then transfers to Middlebury College, and graduates summa cum laude in 1971.

Julia Alvarez, child of the sweltry Caribbean, loves winters in Vermont. ... The 75 autobiographical poems include childhood memories ("Out in the playground, ...

While at the Yaddo writing retreat, Julia Alvarez found herself suffering from writers block. Inspiration struck when she befriended the maids, housekeepers and cooks and heard their stories, and ...

Twenty-five years ago when novelist Julia Alvarez published her first novel, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” there were few to no well-known American-Latina writers. Now, as she ...

Alvarez has been behind three nonfiction books, three poetry collections, 11 children/young adult books and seven literary novels. "Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined" includes eatures extensive ...

“Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” covers her breakout semi-autobiographical novel “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents” and her searing bestseller “In the Time of the Butterflies.” ...