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Upcoming Events

Join Simmons at one of the following events—and check back regularly for the latest schedule:

May 7-8, 2009
Reading as part of the University of Arizona MFA Program Graduate Readings
Poetry Center : Tucson, Arizona

June 3, 2009
Reading as part of "The Essays of Wildbranch" session at the ASLE Biennial Conference
University of Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia

News

What's Simmons up to? Here's some of the latest news:

February 25, 2009
Simmons Buntin's essay "A Pure Color" has been selected as an Honorable Mention in The Atlantic's 2008 Student Writing Contest.

January 12, 2009
Simmons Buntin's essay "Palo del Muerte" placed 2nd for the Tara L. Masih Intercultural Essay Prize in the Soul-Making Literary Competition.

January 9, 2009
Simmons Buntin's poem "In May I Consider My Websites," which originally appeared in Isotope, has been nominated by the journal for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.

November 8, 2008
Simmons Buntin's poem "Flare," which originally appeared in Whiskey Island Magazine, is the featured poem on Verse Daily.

March 18, 2008
Simmons Buntin has been awarded a UA Creative Writing Program Foundation Award for the 2007/2008 academic year.

January 25, 2008
Simmons Buntin's essay "The Sum of All Species" won the Mid-American Review 2007 Creative Nonfiction Award judged by W. Scott Olsen, and was published in its April/May 2008 issue.

December 10, 2007
Simmons Buntin is now writing a regular editorial for The Next American City magazine. Look for it on Tuesdays, and read all of the magazine's blogs here.

 
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