The Motioning In: New and Selected Poems

Mike Tuggle, poet laureate of Sonoma County for 2008-2009, was a poet-teacher in the California Poets in the Schools program from 1971-2003 in San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma counties. "Whether he's 'filling with light of stars/ and the approaching moon' or a photograph of Dorothea Lange's, Tuggle 'will not look away from the truth/ of what (he) sees.'" Bill Vartnaw, author of "Suburbs of my Childhood" Mr. Tuggle is the recipient of a Sonoma County Foundation Award in Poetry, The Dickens Award in Fiction and the Oberon Poetry Prize. He is the co-author of "Cazadero Poems" with the poet Susan Kennedy, a chapbook published by Floating Island Press; "Absolute Elsewhere," his first full collection, published by Philos Press; "The Singing Itself," published by Running Wolf Press, and "What Lures the Foxes," a chapbook published by Kelly's Cove Press. He was Poet Laureate of Sonoma County for 2008-2009. He lives in Cazadero with his cats.