THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

The Latina Book Club is pleased to announce it's August Book of the Month -- an emotional and heartfelt collection of poems that will touch everyone's heart. La Casita Grande  I’m stuck in my life suspended animation feeling powerless ---Insect Trapped In Amber (15-21 April 2016) Tearful. Fearful. Hopeful. Powerful.  A.B. Lugo’s first collection of poetry -- SPANISH COFFEE: BLACK, NO SUGAR – is a bittersweet mezcla of heartbreak and hope.    In 2015, the award-winning actor and playwright lost both his parents within months of each other. To cope with his grief, he dedicated himself to writing a poem a week in 2016.  SPANISH COFFEE: BLACK, NO SUGAR – named for the way his Dad liked his coffee – chronicles a year of his life, his grief, and his hard journey forward.  Lugo wrote his poems in all forms – free verse, haiku; in English, Spanish and Spanglish. Some of his poems span several pages; others mere lines.  Th...

Poetry is like a song, like a psalm, like a prayer. Poetry is different things to many people, and April being Poetry Month, The Latina Book Club is celebrating by featuring Latino poets all week long. We welcome A.B. Lugo , poet and playwright, who makes a very personal and emotional debut with  Spanish Coffee: Black, No Sugar from La Casita Grande. La Casita Grande, May 2017 SUMMARY:  In 2015, A.B. Lugo, award winning actor and playwright, suffered through the deaths of his parents only months apart. To cope with his grief, he dedicated himself to writing a poem for each week of 2016. Little did he know he would be chronicling an historic year, one of social strife and tragedy that would culminate in the election of a man whose movement brings new awareness and fear to A.B. as an Afro-Puerto Rican. Spanish Coffee: Black, No Sugar , much like its title, is a bitter experience, as life can be, but also one that gives us the energy and power to ma...