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Poet’s First Book Comes At Age 90
When Lorna De Sosa turned 90 last month, she did something special for herself: She published her first book, a volume of poems she’s been working on for the last four years.
“Who Turned the Grass On?” contains 38 poems, reflecting on her experiences in pre-Castro Cuba, Paris, Manhattan, and, most recently, of her four decades in Berkeley.
An actress, producer and director in theatrical companies and for radio networks in Ohio, Connecticut, Chicago and New York, Sosna traveled to Cuba in the 1940s, where she became a founder of that nation’s Academy of the Dramatic Arts in Havana and produced and directed national dramatic festivals for the Cuban government.
She also taught in the drama departments of the Catholic University Santo Tomas de Villaneuva in Havana and Cal State-San Francisco.
Her last teaching position were at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the St. Albert’s Priory. She now lives at a retirement home in East Oakland.
Copies of the book are available for $14 from the author at lornades@yahoo.com, P.O. Box 159, San Leandro 94557-0659.
