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POETRY MONTH! SPOTLIGHT ON ORLANDO FERRAND!

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 poet Orlando Ferrand to our site. I ask myself: is there a need for skin when you wear your soul inside out protected by the celestial skeleton of an umbrella? --From The Fool of Bronx Park East CHATTING WITH ORLANDO FERRAND Q:  Tell us about your first award-winning collection of poetry, Citiwalker . Is it about Cuba? the US? both? ORLANDO:  My first book and the award-winning collection of poetry,   Citywalker , is my personal journey both geographically and psychologically in search of my identity as a construct of choice. Because I consider myself a hyphenated identity (Cuban-American), it's impossible to dig into my ethnic and cultural roots without considering the other part of my heritage, the Cuban co...