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On March 24, 2026, Dominican-American poet, novelist and essayist, Julia Alvarez read from her latest poetry collection in conversation with radio host Georgina Godwin. The poems in Visitations reflect on change across the arc of decades—family, aging, love, the body, finding voice, and the very act of poetry itself. Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work was included in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” Her novel In the Time of the Butterflies , with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. In 2024, she was the subject of an American Masters documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined,” on PBS and in Spring 2026, she will publish Visitations , her first new collection of Alvarez’s poems in over twenty years. Alvarez is one of the founders of Border of Lights, a movement to promote peace and collaboration between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. She lives in Vermont.

Kirkus’ editors join host Megan Labrise in celebration of the Best Books of April, with their top picks in books for the month and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making our book lists. Then Julia Alvarez joins us to discuss The Cemetery of Untold Stories (Algonquin, April 2), in which a retiring Dominican American professor and novelist conceives of a unique way to contend with her unpublished manuscripts. Kirkus: “Buried stories find their way to the light in this finely crafted novel” (starred review). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

#35 • Today I’m interviewing a Goddess Entrepreneur fully devoted to serving mothers, Julia Alvarez! Julia Alvarez is a perinatal yoga teacher and ayurvedic doula who supports women in pregnancy and postpartum. Trained in well women's yoga therapy, prenatal yoga, full spectrum doula care and ayurvedic postpartum care, she is currently studying to become an ayurvedic wellness coach to work with all mothers and mothers to be. Her work is rooted in serving the Goddess and helping women connect to their intuitive, ancient wisdom. In this episode, we share about how we met at a wannabe influencer’s yoga retreat and what a wild ride it was, how we cultivated a friendship afterward, and how much I admire Julia’s devotion to serving mothers and children, where she has not wavered from in the 8 years that I’ve known her! Join us for this fun and at times funny conversation, sharing wisdom about prenatal and postpartum time, and living life in devotion to the Great Mother Goddess. As always, thank you for listening. Blessings to you & yours! Visit Julia's website: www.juliayogadoula.com Follow her on IG: @julia.yogadoula

Learn all about Pre-natal Yoga as well as Post-natal Doula work with the incredible Julia Alvarez! Her work is rooted in Ayurveda and she a very unique perspective and much to share with Yoga , Ayurveda and postpartum support for this population. Learn ways to help support our post party people as well! Connect with our guest Julia Alvarez: https://linktr.ee/julia.yogadoula Instagram: @julia.yogadoula Website: https://julia-alvarez.com Join Ashley for Levitate - an Aerial Yoga Event, Sat Sept 30th at Ying Yoga: https://www.ashleyweberyoga.com/workshops-and-events/levitate-an-aerial-yoga-event Connect to Yoga And... Podcast: Please write us a glowing 5 star review wherever you get your Podcasts yogaandpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: yogaandpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@yogaandpodcast Music by Mama Duke

On this Tuesday edition of The PEN Pod, we talk to acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez about her new book AFTERLIFE; what we can learn about empathy from reading; and the parallels in writing books for younger readers and books for adults. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/penamerica/support

On Wednesday, November 6, this fall's Big Read program culminated in an on-stage reading and interview with Julia Alvarez and Kali Fajardo-Anstine for Inside the Writer's Studio, co-presented by the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Preceded by a performance by Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre, the two authors read from their award-winning works, discussed their artistic processes, and answered audience questions live on-stage. *Note: Due to copyright restrictions, the podcast does not include Julia Alvarez reading from "In the Time of the Butterflies."