National Poetry Month: 10 of Our Favorite Latino Poets

Julia Alvarez (1950 – Present)

The Dominican American writer became a literally legend with novels like How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In The Time of The Butterflies, but Alvarez has also published several poetry collections including, The Other Side, Homecoming, and The Woman I Kept to Myself. In 2004, the award-winning writer spoke to Latina about that poetry means to her, “For me, poetry is that cutting edge of the self, the part which moves out into experience ahead of every other part of the self.”