Legendary Chicago Performance Poet Billy Tuggle's 1st full length collection of poetry is finally available. Published by Swimming With Elephants Publications, this is a collector's collection.

With hits from his years on the road, mixed with new and still smoke covered fire poetics on display, this is a collection that COOKS!After an over 20-year career in poetry, mostly on the road, the Chicago poetry legend gives us his debut FULL-LENGTH collection packed with love, art, music, and culture that so many in the modern poetry scenes across the country have been clamoring for! Billy has taught workshops, spit poems, warmed hearts, & made a family of friends from one end of this country to the other. He has been featured in the documentary "Louder Than A B*mb" on "All Def Poetry" and too many other places to list here.

A Nation Poetry Slam Legend, a poet like none other, a human with few comparisons, the (unofficial) Poet Laureate of Hip Hop culture in the rusted Midwest, do not miss his first FULL LENGTH collection, destined to be a classic. Finally, you can get the collection your poetry collection wants you to collect.

(more info/preview available at swimmingwithelephants. com)published by Swimming With Elephants Publications with help from ReWorded Poetry.

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