Alberto O Cappas

Poet, journalist, and community activist Alberto O. Cappas was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New York City. His work includes the poetry collection Doña Julia & Other Selected Poems (AuthorHouse, 2002), which interrogates a “cultural and spiritual death that happens to Puerto Ricans and other Latinos when they leave the tropical scenes and adopt certain American values.” 

Cappas has been actively involved in local Puerto Rican and Latino communities in Buffalo, New York, including the Puerto Rican Organization for Dignity, Elevation, and Responsibility (PODER), a student organization he founded while at the University of Buffalo, the Puerto Rican-Chicano Committee (PRCC), and the Buffalo Latino Village, a monthly newspaper covering issues pertaining to Buffalo’s Puerto Rican/Latine community. Cappas’s work is also featured in an art mural commissioned by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority at the Allen Street Train station.