Julia Alvarez Reads Judy Page Heitzman

The New Yorker: Poetry

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Julia Alvarez joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill,” by Judy Page Heitzman, and her own poem “Mami at Her Vanity.” Alvarez is the author of many novels, nonfiction books, children’s books, and poetry collections, including, most recently, “Visitations.” She has received a Hispanic Heritage Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature, and a National Medal of Arts. She’s also the subject of a PBS “American Masters” documentary.

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0:53.0	Hi, you're listening to the New Yorker Poetry Podcast.
0:56.7	I'm Kevin Young, poetry editor of the New Yorker magazine.
1:00.5	On this program, we invite a poet to select a poem from the New Yorker Archive to read and discuss.
1:06.1	Then, they read one of their own poems that's been published in the magazine.
1:10.6	Today, my guest is Julia Alvarez.
1:13.4	She's the author of many novels, non-fiction books, children's books, and poetry collections,
1:18.7	including most recently visitations.
1:21.5	She's received a Hispanic Heritage Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature, and in 2013,
1:30.6	a National Medal of Arts. She's also the subject of a PBS American Masters documentary.
1:37.2	Julia, welcome. Thanks for joining me.
1:39.2	Thank you, Kevin, for inviting me to the big table.
1:43.1	Well, you've been there a while, I'm just happy to join you.
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