John Brugaletta
March 8, 2009
John J. Brugaletta is a retired English professor from the California State University at Fullerton. He has published two volumes of poetry, The Tongue Angles and Tilling the Land, a chapbook, Apologias, and numerous poems in periodicals. Gardening, woodworking, and reading tend to feed his various poetic styles from humorous narrative poems to others that grapple with weighty theological questions. Listen
Hosted by Rachel Wheeler
May 18, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Rachel, I am one of the lucky students who sat under Dr. Brugaletta’s tutelage at CSUF. To this day he is the apex of professors and teachers who most affected my life and my mind.
Every once in a while, I do a Google search for him because we fell out of touch and he no longer lives on Rose in Fullerton.
I am thrilled to have found this broadcast of your interview. It was like I was back in his livingroom thirty years ago listening as trained and untrained poets shared the intimate details of their hearts and minds.
He has not changed one whit. I look forward to ordering and receiving his books of poetry. And the professionals are correct: he does have a clear voice. I remember his telling me that about my own writing. I credit his exemplary teaching for that. Do you know that he allowed me to talk him into teaching a course on CS Lewis? Remarkable.
Would you please pass along my email adress to him, along with this clumsy note so that if he remembers me, we can get back in touch.
Thank you,
Cindy Sicard Baynham