There's something special about listening to a poetry reading on a rainy day and this event will not disappoint. Catch poets Mike Tuggle, Bart Schneider and Terry Ehret discuss their work and read excerpts.
Terry Ehret was born in 1955 in San Francisco and grew up in the S.F. Bay Area. She received a BA from Stanford University in 1977, and an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1984. She has lived in Sonoma County since 1990.
Ehret’s poetry, essays, stories and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her poems have won several literary awards including the National Poetry Series, California Commonwealth Club Book Award, Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, and four Pushcart Prize nominations.
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Bart Schneider grew up in San Francisco and recently returned to the Bay Area after spending 25 years in Minnesota, where he was the founding editor of Hungry Mind Review and Speakeasy magazine. He is the author of a poetry collection, Water for a Stranger, and four novels, Blue Bossa, Secret Love, Beautiful Inez, and Man in the Blizzard.
Mike Tuggle has lived in Cazadero in western Sonoma County since 1981. He was the recipient of a Sonoma Community Foundation Award in poetry, a Dickens Award in fiction, and the Oberon Poetry Prize. He is the author of Cazadero Poems, a chapbook with the poet Susan Kennedy, and two full-length collections, Absolute Elsewhere and The Singing Itself. He was the poet laureate of Sonoma County for 2008–2009.
