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Poet, Parent, Puerto Rican! ¡Wepa!
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Amplifying Puerto Rican and underrepresented voices while supporting aspiring & emerging writers through her writing, teaching, and advocacy.
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The Not-So-Secret Path to My Publishing Success

9/14/2020

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New Publication Alert! 

"Welfare Baby" 
in the New York Daily News on Monday, September 14, 2020

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NY Daily News page:
I’ve written before about the ways in which I can often trace my publications to personal and community relationships I’ve developed along the way.

My most recent OpEd, "Welfare Baby," which ran in the NY Daily News is no different.

What does it take to get published?

The simplest answer? ​​


Write, Revise, Submit, Repeat
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That’s it. You keep doing those things until your work is accepted and published. 

The order might change, there might be some revise and resubmit thrown in there, but at the heart of it, that is the work.
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New Poem in L.A. Parent

7/1/2020

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"To The White Parenting 'Expert'"

​​Read the poem online here.

Access the full print version of the July 2020 issue here.
Li Yun's Poem

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I'm on a Podcast! Check it out!

2/20/2019

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#Conceitednobodi Podcast Featuring Li Yun Alvarado

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My brother Red1der is one of the founding members of #Conceitednobodi, a free-wheeling podcast where participants discuss current events, hip hop, politics, and more...

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Publication Summer: Pulling Back the Curtain of My Most Productive Summer Yet

9/29/2018

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A Key Aspect of Publication Success? Relationship Building!

Happy Fall!

Before I completely transition into my Birthday Month (Go Libras!) and into the quieter, more introspective, energy of fall, I wanted to reflect on what I’m calling "Publication Summer!"

This summer I had five pieces published; one poem accepted; I spoke at the Latina Writers Conference in LA; I was selected to present at another writer’s conference in the spring; I applied for a grant; and I had two sets of rejections (as WWS has taught me, if you’re not getting rejected that probably means you’re not submitting enough!).

Check out the publications below:


​"Hechizo Para Congelar"

"L.A. Parent: Date with L.A."

“Zika”

“Momentos de María”

“Literatura, Música, y (Huracán) María:
Reflections from the Diaspora"

"Family Physician" 
​(forthcoming Spring 2019)
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Having that many pieces published in the span of three months was unexpected but it didn’t happen by accident.

Read on to learn more about how I went from one publication in 2017 to Publication Summer in 2018!

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"Hechizo Para Congelar"

7/13/2018

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New Poem by Li Yun Alvarado & Josmara Alvarado
published in UnMargin

My cousin & comadre Josmara Alvarado and I joined forces to write a poetic spell: “Hechizo Para Congelar” that is included in this timely and necessary online collection: Incantations: The SCOTUS Decision in Trump v. Hawaii :: 585 U.S. __ (2018) published in UnMargin.

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