JULIA ALVAREZ

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

The Other Side /El Otro Lado (New York: Dutton, 1995), a book of poems.

In The Time of the Butterflies (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1994), a novel.

German publication, Die Zeit der Schmetterlinge.

Munchen Zurich: R. Piper GmbH & Co., 1996

Dominican Republic publication, En el tiempo de las mariposas.

Santo Domingo: Editora Taller, 1996.

Danish publication, I sommerfuglenes tid.

Copenhagen: Gyldendal Bogklubber, 1996.

Latin American publication, En el tiempo de las mariposas.

Buenos Aires: Editora Atlantida SA, 1995.

Norwegian publication, I sommerfuglenes tid.

Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1995.

Dutch publication, In de tijd van de vlinders.

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Luitingh- Sijthoff, 1995

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1991), a novel.

German publication, Wie Die García Girls Ihren Akzent Verloren.

Düsseldorf: Econ Taschenbuch Verlag, 1993;

Second edition: Munich: Piper München Zürich, 1996.

Spanish publication, De como las chicas Garcías perdieron su acento.

Barcelona: Edicones B, 1994.

French publication, Comment les filles García ont perdu leur accent.

Flammarion Itée, 1993.

Homecoming (New York: Grove Press, 1984; 2nd edition, 1986), a book of poems.

The Housekeeping Book (Burlington, 1984), a handmade book of my series of housekeeping poems, illustrated by artists Carol MacDonald and Rene Schall. This project was funded by the Vermont Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mounted panels of the book were on exhibit throughout the state of Vermont, 1984-85.

Old Age Ain't For Sissies (Sandford: Crane Creek Press, 1979), selected and edited this anthology of poetry written by senior citizens in creative writing workshops I conducted, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Arts Council of Fayetteville.

POETRY

"Folding My Clothes" and "Two Years Too Late," Ploughshares, spring, 1996.

"The Way It Sounds," "The Dashboard Virgencita," "The Lost & Found Señoritas," The Massachusetts Review, winter 1995-96.

"Dusting," reprinted in Uncommon Knowledge: Exploring Ideas Through Reading and Writing (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995); and in Writer's Solution (Needham: Prentice Hall, 1995).

"Redwing Sonnets" and "Wallpaper," The American Poetry Review, November/December 1995.

"Audition," The New Yorker, June 12, 1995.

A selection of poems in Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets (New York: Persea Books, 1995).

"What Goes Wrong," Mirabella, May, 1995.

"The women on my mother's side were known," a sonnet from the sequence "33," reprinted in An Introduction to Poetry, 8th edition (New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1994).

"Queens, 1963," Patchwork of Dreams: Voices from the Heart of the New America, The Spirit That Moves Us, Volume 12; reprinted in American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1994).

"Woman's Work," New York Times (Op/Ed section), September 5, 1994.

"Bilingual Sestina," "Naming the Fabrics," "Sweeping," one sonnet from "33," A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women (Brownsville: Story Line Press, 1994).

"Us," Latinos In the U.S. Review, Middlebury College publication, spring 1994.

"Anatomy," Chelsea 55.

"On a Hill above Your House," "Cows," Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (Hanover: Middlebury College Press, 1993).

"Dusting," WPFW 89. 3 Poetry Anthology (Washington, DC: Crocodile Press, 1992); reprinted in Uncommon Knowledge: Exploring Ideas Through Reading and Writing (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995).

"Mami and Gauguin," The Kenyon Review, summer l990.

"Bilingual Sestina," The George Washington Review, Tenth Anniversary Issue: A Showcase of Visiting Writers, 1990; reprinted in Hispanic Culture Review, Volume 1, Number 2, 1991

"Exile," The George Washington Review, Tenth Anniversary Issue: A Showcase of Visiting Writers, 1990.

"Beginning Love," "Bookmaking," The Green Mountain Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, fall/winter, l989-90. "Bookmaking" reprinted in The Best American Poetry 1991 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991).

"Estele," The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 3, June l989; reprinted in Deafness: Life & Culture, Volume 45, 1995.

"Boca de Chavon," Modern Haiku, Vol. 20, No. 2, summer l989; reprinted in The Caribbean Writer, Volume 4, 1990.

"The Weekend," Men & Women: Together and Alone (Iowa City: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, l988).

Sonnets from "33," The Sonnet (New York: Pocket Books, l987); reprinted in Cries of the Spirit (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991).

Housekeeping poems in The Renewal of Vision; Voices of Latin American Women Poets, l940-l980 (Cambridge, UK: Spectacular Diseases Press, l988).

A selection of poems in Poems of Exile and Other Concerns: Poetry by Dominicans in the United States (New York: Ediciones Alcance, l988).

A selection of poems and stories in Sin Otra Profeta Que Su Canto: Antologia De Poesia Escrita Por Dominicanas (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Taller Ediciones, 1987).

"Against Cinderella," Florilegia: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 1976-1986.

"Sweeping," Helicon Nine, summer 1985, Vols.12 & 13.

"Orchids," 13th Moon: Narrative Forms Issue, Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2, fall 1984.

"Posture Lesson," "What Could It Be," The Poetry Miscellany, No. 13; "Posture Lesson" reprinted in Western Wind: an Introduction to Poetry, 3rd edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1992).

"Parting," Womanspirit, Vol. 10, No. 40, summer 1984.

"Homecoming," The Caribbean Review, Vol. 12, No. I; reprinted in American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1994).

"Hairwashing," Day Tonight/Night Tomorrow, No. 17.

"Bedmaking," "Ironing Their Clothes," "Naming the Fabrics," 13th Moon: Working Class Experience, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 2, summer 1983. "Ironing Their Clothes" reprinted in Love Poems by Women (New York: Fawcett, 1990); in Cries of the Spirit (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991); in Latino Poetry (Paramus: Globe Fearon, 1994).

"Against Cinderella," "Making Our Beds," Calyx, Vol. 7, No. 1, summer 1982.

"Us," The Burlington Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1982.

"Heroics," "New Clothes," Poetry, May 1982.

"Hairwashing," "I Do," "Teaching Poetry in the Schools," Total Recall, an anthology of poetry by the Kentucky Arts Commission, 1980.

"O that like a flower," Plainsong, fall 1979.

"Jog," The Runner, Vol. 1, No. 6, March 1979.

"Framboyan," The Barataria Review, No. 4, June 1977.

"Mother," Phantasm, Vol. 2, No. 2.

"Blossom," "Turtle," Syracuse Guide, No. 21, May 1977.

"Again," "Cleaning House," "Decorations Over Beds," "For the Last Lover," "In Another Language," "Tree," The Tower, June 1977.

"The Album: Mother and Father," The Cincinnati Poetry Review, No. 4, spring 1977.

"Family of Children," The Wandering Foot, No. 2, spring 1977.

"Alphabet," "And Sometimes You Turned To The Animals," "Cut," "Dream," "I suppose you can survive," "Snow," "Winter Losses," Jar, winter 1977.

"Frankfort, Kentucky," "Wash," Wind, August/September 1976.

"Driving the Countryside," "Hawks," Green River Review, spring/summer 1976.

"My Poems Have Too Many Men," The Kentucky Poetry Review, spring/summer 1976.

"Catechism for Poets," "Latin Lover," "Making Bread Five Years After The Divorce," "No Sap Comes Up The Tree," Jar, spring 1976.

"Best Friends," "Discovery," "End Poem," "For Dinorah," "In The Dark," "Sets," "Substitutes," Jar, fall 1975.

"Iphigenia," "Maybe A Love Poem," "Stories for the Dead," "The Sublimator," The Barataria Review, No. 2, March 1975.

"The Poet's Aptitude Examination," "Testament," Syracuse Poems 1974.

"The Album: Mother," Rising (Syracuse: Women's Writing Collective, 1974).

"The Garden," "Gingila on the Toilet," "Gingila's Return," Pulse: The Lamar Review, spring 1973.

"Observation," "Sonnet," The Vermont Academy of the Arts and Sciences Symposium Selections, 1971.

"My People," Soulscript: An Anthology (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970).

FICTION

"One Peoples," USA Weekend, July 21-23, 1995.

"Coco Stop," Prairie Schooner, Volume 68, Number 4, winter 1994.

"Disappeared Does Not Take a Helping Verb in English," Syracuse Magazine, Volume 10, Number 4, summer 1994.

"Yolanda," The Writer's Workbook, Fifth Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994).

"Trespass," Growing Up Female (New York: Penguin Books, 1993).

"El verano del futuro" and "Las cuatro niñas," translations of "The Summer of the Future" and "The Four Girls" in Antologia de Cuentos: Escritos Por Mujeres Dominicanas (Santo Domingo: Editora Taller, 1992).

"Customs," Iguana Dreams (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992).

"Floor Show," Story, spring 1991; reprinted in Mondo Barbie (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993).

"Antojos," The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 4, June l990; reprinted in Editor's Choice III: Fiction & Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1984-1990 (New York: Spirit that Moves Us Press, 1991); in New Writing from the Caribbean (London, Macmillan Ltd., 1994).

"Hot Water," The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 3, June l989; reprinted in Gargoyle 37/38.

"Yellow," The One You Call Sister: New Women's Fiction (Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, l989)

"The Summer of The Future," Third Woman: The Sexuality of Latinas (Berkeley: Third Woman Press, l989); reprinted in Stories from Washington Heights and Other Corners of the World: Short Stories Written By Dominicans in the United States (Bronx: The Latino Press, 1994).

"Wings," The Green Mountain Review, winter 1989.

"Daughter of Invention," Unholy Alliances: New Fiction By Women (Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, l988); reprinted in The Writer's Craft, 2nd edition (Chicago: Scott, Foresman, Co., l988); in Growing Up Latino (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993).

"Pink Clay," Heresies: 23: Coming of Age # 23, l988.

"The Kiss," The Greensboro Review, summer l987, No. 42; reprinted in About These Stories (New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1994); in Daughters of the Fifth Sun (New York: Riverhead Books, 1995).

"Familiars," Conditions # 14: International Focus II, l987.

"Tent," High Plains Literary Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, spring 1987.

"Still Lives," The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 1, No. I, spring 1987.

"Four Girls," Third Woman, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 2, 1986; reprinted in Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Bulletin, winter 1989-1990.

"An American Surprise," the new renaissance, # 19, fall 1984; reprinted in An American Christmas (Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1986).

"Small Change," Helicon Nine, Nos. 14 & 15, summer 1986; reprinted in The Helicon Nine Reader: A Celebration of Women in the Arts (Kansas City: Helicon Nine Editions, 1990).

"Dream String For The Labyrinth," Earth's Daughters, summer 1985.

"Second Chances," Helicon Nine, summer 1985, Vols. 12 & 13.

"American Valentine," The George Washington Review, Vol. 5, No. 3.

"Chekhov's Gun," MSS, fall/winter 1984.

"Snow," Warnings: An Anthology on the Nuclear Peril (Eugene: Northwest Review Books, 1984); reprinted in Writing With Confidence: A Modern College Rhetoric (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Co., 1989); in The Writer's Craft (Glenview: Scott, Foresman, Co., 1986); in The Village Advocate (1/3/88); in St. Petersburg Times (1/16/88); in Listening to Ourselves (New York: Doubleday, 1994); in Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama ,and the Essay, 3rd edition (New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1995); in The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (New York: McGraw HIll, 1995); in Latina: Women's Voices from the Borderlands (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).

"New World," Sobreviviendo: Bearing Witness: An Anthology of Native and Latina Writing and Art: Calyx, Vol. 8, No. 2, spring 1984.

"The Heart Hotel," Sing, Heavenly Muse, fall 1983.

"El Doctor," Revista Chicano-Riquena, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1982; reprinted in Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for Writers (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983); in The Writer's Craft (Glenview.: Scott, Foresman, Co., 1986); in Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1991); in Latino Caribbean Literature (Paramus: Paramount Publishing, 1993).

"Joe," Syracuse Scholar, Vol. 3, No. 2, fall 1982.

"Father, The Rainfall," The Barataria Review, No. 4, June 1977.

NONFICTION

"On `One Art' by Elizabeth Bishop," Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Hanover: University Press of New England),

"Flight Plans," The Washington Post Magazine, August 13, 1995.

"On Finding a Latino Voice," The Washington Post Book World, Sunday, May 14, 1995.

"Translating A Look," Allure Magazine, March 1995.

Introduction to Clarice Lispector's "The Smallest Woman in the World" in You've Got To Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them In Awe (New York: HarperPerennial, 1994).

"Alvarez Describes Home," a chapter on descriptive writing in Writer's Choice: Composition and Grammar Text for Eighth Graders (Glencoe: Macmillan/Mc-Graw Hill, 1993).

"Learning English, My New Found Land," New York Newsday, February 22, l993.

"Black Behind the Ears," Essence Magazine, February 1993.

"My English," Brújula/Compass, fall 1992.

"My Second Opera," The Lane Series, 1992-1993.

"Hold The Mayonnaise," Hers Column, New York Times Magazine, January 12, 1992; reprinted in The McGraw-Hill Reader (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1994); in Aims and Options: A thematic Approach to Writing (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994).

"An American Childhood in the Dominican Republic," The American Scholar, winter 1987.

Book Reviews of The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina by Alicia Partnoy; of Assumptions by Marilyn Hacker; of Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich in Belles Lettres: A Review of Books By Women, fall 1986, summer 1985, fall 1985, respectively.

"Names/Nombres," Nuestro, March 1985; reprinted in Beyond Expectations: Treasury of Literature (New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1993); in Shades of Gold: Treasury of Literature (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995); in Perspectives: Authentic Voices of Latinos (North Billerica: Curriculum Associates, 1995).

"Silver Linings," New Mexico Humanities Review, winter 1984.

"Voices: A Look Back At Dominican Humor," Nuestro, November 1984.

Book review of Beside Herself: Pocahantas to Patty Hearst by Pamela White Hadas, 13th Moon: Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2, fall 1984.

"Quake Revives Nuclear Fears," Burlington Free Press, October 16, 1983.

"Snow and the Bomb," Artists for Social Responsibility, #6, September 1983.

"A Girl's Great Expectations," Commonwoman, June 1983.

"Huck Finn's Favorite Class: Initiation," English Journal, May 1979.

"Old Age Ain't For Sissies . . . Neither is Poetry," Spectra, April/May 1979.

"Bilingual Poetry in the Schools," Teachers and Writers Magazine, spring 1979.

"Simplicity in the Schools," The American Poetry Review, May/June 1977.

TRANSLATIONS/SPANISH

"Morning XI," "Ode to Barbed Wire" by Pablo Neruda, The Barataria Review, June 1977.

"Afternoon LIV," "Afternoon LV," "Ode to the Diver," "Ode to Poetry" by Pablo Neruda, The Tower, June 1977.

"Ode to the Lab Assistant," "Ode to Numbers" by Pablo Neruda, The Bitter Oleander, Vol. 2, No. 1.

"Ode to the Scissors," "Ode to the Sleeping House" by Pablo Neruda, Pan American Review, spring 1975.

"Ode to Criticism," "Ode to Secret Love" by Pablo Neruda, The Bitter Oleander, Vol. 1, No. 2.

"Morning I," "Morning XX," "Noon XXXVI" by Pablo Neruda, Pulse: The Lamar Review, spring 1973.

JULIA ALVAREZ

ARTICLES/PRESENTATIONS ABOUT MY WORK:

"When Literature and History Meet: Julia Alvarez's In The Time of the Butterflies," Lori Hopkins, Reed College, March, 1996.

"La narrativa de Julia Alvarez," Irma Llorens, Queens College, CUNY, October 1, 1994.

"Snow," read in "Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story," Symphony Space, Broadway, New York, January 18, 1995.

"Life in Vermont," Charles Morrissey, WDEV, FM. A broadcast devoted to In the Time of the Butterflies, November 25, 1994.

"De Como Las Chicas Garcia Perdieron Su Acento: Dialogo Sobre Literatura E Identidad," Andrés Mateo. An essay presented at the Dominican Literature Meeting, the Americas Society, November 4, 1994.

"Ordering the Family Confusion," David Huddle. An essay on Julia Alvarez's "The Kiss," About These Stories (New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1994).

"Julia Alvarez: Dominican-American novelist and poet," Latino Biographies (Paramus: Globe Fearon, 1994).

"Rebulient Quiescence in the Works of Julia Alvarez," Silvio Torres-Saillant, Director, Dominican Studies Institute, and Professor, City University of New York. A paper presented at Columbia University, September 22, 1994.

"Language and Self-Representation in the Work of Julia Alvarez," Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, George Mason University. A paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Studies, July 31, 1990.

"Homecoming, Julia Alvarez y la búsqueda de una definición del ser hispana y mujer," Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Associate Professor, York College, New York University. A paper published in Emen-Ya: Revista de Cultura (1990): 27-36.

"La literatura dominicana en los Estados Unidos y la periferia del margen," Silvio Torres-Saillant, Director, Dominican Studies Institute, and Professor, City University of New York. A paper presented at University of Sacred Heart, Santurce, Puerto Rico, May 2, 1990.

"Entre dominicanos: Una lectura de 'Las Cuatro Niñas,'" Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Associate Professor, York College, New York University. A paper on my short story, "The Four Girls," published in Centro, winter 1989-1990.

"Carta a una poeta en New York," Bruno Rosario Candelier, Dominican critic and Professor, Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic. A paper published in Coloquio, July 1, 1989.

"Sexualidad y Metapoesia: Cuatro Poemas de Julia Alvarez," Dr. Luz Maria Umpierre, Professor, Western Kentucky University. A paper published in Cuadernos De Poetica,V, No. 15, August, l988.

"In The Belly of the Monster: Dominican Poetry in New York," Dr. Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Associate Professor, York College, New York University. A paper presented at CUNY Association of Caribbean Studies, 3rd Annual Conference, Brooklyn College, NY, March, 7, l987.

"Traditional Form and the Living, Breathing American Poet," Fred Muratori. An essay on contemporary sonnets including my sonnet sequence, "33," in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, pp. 231-232, winter 1986.

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