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The Retrospective...

This six-foot-four beauty with brains excelled at UCLA and made her art speak for her. Linda J. Albertano, award-winning poet and Poetry Diva of the City of Los Angeles, was an enchantress, musician, performance artist, actress, and filmmaker. Frank Lutz was Linda’s lover, husband, partner, and best friend for more than 55 years. This is the first book of four that Frank has compiled of Linda’s work posthumously, along with his own narrative works.

Poems and Stories

In this companion book to On the Life of Linda J. Albertano, a retrospective of Linda and Frank’s written work, including poetry and prose, offers a fascinating look at the creative force that emerged from this one-of-a-kind relationship.

The Afterlife...

This book is very unusual and will help others who have lost a loved one. Two Souls Desperate to Connect is the third installment by Los Angeles’ famed Poetry Diva, On the Life of Linda J. Albertano (a collaborative effort with her husband, Frank Lutz, is a compilation of poetry, prose, stories, and a photo journal coffee-table book).

Poetry Diva...

In memory of Linda J. Albertano. Sadly, this majestic icon, who by many was an “eternal” lover of humanity and art, passed away on September 13, 2022. It was left to her loving husband, Frank Lutz, to put together her archives and poetry of almost sixty years for the public to see and cherish. So welcome, to the art and soul of our dear Poetry Diva, Linda Albertano.

The Annual Linda J. Albertano Fellowship Award

Beyond Baroque at Venice, CA

Critical Acclaim for Linda J. Albertano

by Suzanne Lummis
After we’ve noted that Linda J. Albertano thrived in Los Angeles as a force of nature and fount of mischievous intelligence and performative creations; after we’ve remarked upon the ways she seemed always larger than life, as well as––at 6’4” –– taller than most; after we’ve marveled at her triumphant career in the edgiest art despite being silenced, abused and exploited in Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christian foster homes during much of her youth…

We must not omit this. She was funny….

Laurel Ann Bogen, (Founding Member of Nearly Fatal Women, poet, and author)

Linda Albertano, a force of nature, a woman of integrity, a singular voice of unimpeachable honesty.  A goddess who rose from childhood trauma and created art that left audiences breathless.  She was my friend.  Always.

S.A. Griffin, poet, actor and Dadaist Supreme

A deeply compassionate and transformative performance artist and poet-writer, Linda J. Albertano was without peer.  It is impossible not to be touched by the magic of her boundless humanity and love for all.
Quentin Ring, Director, Beyond Baroque

Whether you knew Linda from her utterly original performance art, or from her Kora playing, or from hearing her read, or from simply spending time with her in conversation, she was always truly a poet.  She breathed life into language, and expanded our sense of what is possible.  She has left her poems as a gift to us all, and for that I am truly thankful.  They will continue to transform the imaginations of all of us who encounter them.

Linda J. Albertano Fellowship
On the Life of Linda J. Albertano book

Book one

Linda J. Albertano was a phenomenon from the 1960’s to the 2020’s. Reared as a child in various unkind foster homes in Denver, Colorado, she excelled as a student in high school and at the University of Colorado, and later at UCLA film  school.  She was a beauty with brains, and early on perfected her skills in Los Angeles.  Her songs were recorded by Linda Ronstadt and Taj Mahal, et al, and her stagecraft on world tours by the American impresario Alice Cooper and troupe.  She did solo performances in North America, Europe and Africa.

It All Began with Cherry Soup

This book chronicles the extraordinary and heartwarming conversations between Frank and Linda and their testament to the enduring power of love. It offers a glimpse into finding peace, solace, and healing in a time of sorrow. For those struggling with profound loss, this book can help find a connection with the spiritual afterlife and rediscover what it means to love fully in the present.

Two Souls Desperate to Connect

Two Souls Desperate to Connect explores Frank’s journey to connect with Linda after she passed away in 2022. It includes recordings and transcripts of actual conversations with Linda in the Afterlife, plus Frank’s groundbreaking journey with the guidance of psychic medium and spiritual life coach Elizabeth Raver, Ph.D., so that others can learn the process of epoché. It offers a glimpse into finding peace, solace, and healing 
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Linda J. Albertano playing the Kora - Two Souls Desperate to Connect
Poetry Diva

Poetry Diva

This fourth book, “Poetry Diva”, came about because late in 2024 Frank and his techie Alex found sixty-two of Linda’s old works in her archives that they had not seen before.  The poems, stories and songs ranged from the late 1970’s to the first decade of the Twenty-first Century.  This book also contains a few of Frank’s poems referencing his longing for Linda, as well as a true story of one of Frank’s international adventures.
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Frank Lutz and Linda J. Albertano

The Love Ache
by Frank Lutz

I can’t take her anywhere anymore.
Not out to eat
at her favorite places, nor to the movies,

nor to the opera,
nor on short trips
like to Santa Barbara,
nor to New York City;
nor to Europe,
nor to Africa,
nor back to Rome ‘
so I can finish
my Vatican project.
I can’t even hold her hand anymore. Before Covid hit
three years ago
we were planning Rome.
Then that plague
infected the world.
But as the world-wide infection
was subsiding,
in April of this year 2022
Linda discovered a lump
in her tummy.
Off to the doctors
and the limits they gave her,
no surgery, no radiation,
only chemotherapy.
And so – she elected not
to suffer incapacitated

Excerpt from “On the Life of Linda J. Albertano”