“Draft of Sonnet 33” by Julia Alvarez (1984)

The New York Public Library has digitized and displayed Alvarez’s handwritten edits to one of her sonnets. These sonnets, in their final form, appear in Homecoming along with the titular poem.

“New Clothes” by Julia Alvarez (1982)

The Poetry Foundation published Alvarez’s poem, “New Clothes,” in their magazine before it appeared in her first full-length poetry collection, Homecoming, alongside the titular poem.

“Four Poems by Pedro Mir” translated by Jonathan Cohen (2021)

Mir is one of the most famous and influential poets from the Dominican Republic. His work had a huge impact on Alvarez, as well as on most of the modern poets from the Dominican Republic.