John J. Brugaletta

John J. Brugaletta came west with his family from Kansas City. He later enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, which taught him to persist through ten years of university to the Ph.D. degree. During thirty years of teaching at California State University, Fullerton, he edited South Coast Poetry Journal, publishing such poets as Rita Dove, Richard Eberhardt, William Stafford, X.J. Kennedy, Louis Phillips, Robert Mezey, Kay Ryan, Mark Strand, Charles Webb, Denise Levertov, Judith Minty, Angie Estes, Luci Shaw, and Marge Piercy. His own poems have been collected under the titles The Tongue Angles, Tilling the Land, With My Head Rising out of the Water, and Psalms of Gratitude and Prayer, Peripheral Visions, The Invisible God, and Selected Poems. He lives in retirement on the northernmost coast of California among the redwoods, spruces and firs.