her family, and in 1950 she was exiled to Puerto Rico. There, she continued her literary career, frequently writing about the country she had left behind. In 1959, she won first prize from the Ateneo Puertorriqueño for her poem "Llanto sin término por el hijo nunca llegado" ("Endless Crying for the Child Who Never Arrived"). She ran the Puerto Rican magazine Ventanas and worked on adaptations of her literary work for television and radio. Return to the Dominican Republic Carmen Natalia returned to the Dominican Republic after Trujillo's death in 1961. Under the new Dominican government, she was chosen to speak at the United Nations and at the Organization of American States, where she called for the defense of women's rights. She also served as a delegate for the Dominican Republic to the UNICEF Executive Board. In 1963, she was chosen as president of the Inter-American Commission of Women. Death and legacy After many years of living with muscular dystrophy, Carmen Natalia died in Santo Domingo in 1976. A collection of her poetic work, Poesías: Obra poética completa, 1939-1976, was published in 1981 by the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Style Carmen Natalia wrote poems on a wide variety of subjects, everything from love to the feminine condition to her deep hatred for the regime. Her poetry spanned different movements and is difficult to categorize, with elements of postmodernism. While her early work was more romantic, she quickly turned to writing about the harsh realities of life in Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Some of Carmen Natalia's most representative poems include "Canto a la tierra," "La Miseria está de ronda," "No fue porque yo quise," and "El Grito." She wrote many poems directly addressing the fight against Trujillo and memorializing martyrs of their cause, including "Elegía a los mártires de Constanza, Maimón y Estero Hondo," "Oda heroica a las Mirabal," and "Poema recóndito para un Mártir de la Libertad," dedicated to the memory of Salvador Reyes Sánchez, who died in the failed 1949 invasion that her brother survived. Selected works Poetry Alma adentro (1939) Llanto sin Término por el Hijo Nunca Llegado (1959) El hombre tras las rejas (1962) Novels La Victoria (1942) Cristóbal Essays Veinte actitudes y una epístola Theater Adaptaciones de la Cenicienta y la Bella Durmiente (1950) El milagro de la Epifanía (a play meant to be performed by blind children, 1953) Estampas de la vida de Maria (a