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Upcoming Events
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February 18-20, 2012
Weekend Writing Workshop: A Map to the Next World: Writing Poetry of Heritage and Place
Pima Community College West Campus
Tucson, Arizona
February 29 - March 3, 2012
Terrain.org Table, Terrain.org 15th Anniversary Reading (Saturday, March 3, 10:30 a.m., Chicago Hilton)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Chicago, Illinois
News
What's Simmons up to? Here's some of the latest news:
September 30, 2011
Simmons Buntin quote and photo featured in new "Dear Subaru" ad.
August 10, 2011
Simmons Buntin and the One-Car Town blog are featured in the University of Arizona's Lo Que Pasa.
July 11, 2011
Simmons B. Buntin announces Terrain.org partnership with Planetizen Press to publish a book of updated Terrain.org UnSprawl case studies authored by Simmons and Ken Pirie. Help the project out by contributing on Kickstarter.com before September 5th!
June 23, 2011
Simmons B. Buntin launches new blog: One-Car Town: Logging the one-car lifestyle in new suburbia.
March 30, 2011
Bloom reviews are now available in:
• CutThroat
• Examiner.com
• Mid-American Review
• NewPages.com
• shaking like a mountain
• Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, "Beauty and Peril"
• Tucson Weekly, "Nature of Family"
March 24, 2011
Issue No. 27 of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, edited by Simmons B. Buntin, is now live with the theme of "Entropy." Simmons conducts an interview with author James Howard Kunstler and wrote the UnSprawl case study of Rockville Town Square in this issue.
February 11, 2011
Simmons B. Buntin accepts invitation to become contributing editor of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review and will assist with the highly esteemed literary journal's transition from print to online format.
February 4, 2011
Simmons B. Buntin joins the editorial board of Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability, an outstanding place-based journal published by Unity College in Maine.
October 21, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin participated in the "From the Ashes: Writings from the Mount St. Helens Residencies" reading and slideshow (with Elizabeth Dodd and Derek Sheffield) at the
Western Literature Association Annual Conference in Prescott, Arizona.
October 14, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin's second book of poetry, Bloom, is now available. Order yours today!
October 10, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin's poem "Plastic," inspired by Chris Jordan's arresting photos of albatross chicks decaying around plastic they've swallowed on the Midway Islands, appears in the "biodiversity" issue of Kyoto Journal, published in parallel with the upcoming UN Workshop on Biodiversity in Japan.
August 10, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin's forthcoming book, Bloom, is profiled on the University of Arizona Poetry Center's website.
August 6, 2010
Simmons Buntin is profiled (and reads a poem against a slideshow of his photos) in Lo Que Pasa, the employee e-magazine of the University of Arizona.
July 31, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin's poem "Plastic," inspired by Chris Jordan's arresting photos of albatross chicks decaying around plastic they've swallowed on the Midway Islands, will appear in the forthcoming "biodiversity" issue of Kyoto Journal, published in parallel with the upcoming UN Workshop on Biodiversity in Japan.
June 25, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin's poem "Home and Back Again" was chosen as a finalist by Marie Howe in the TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature 2010 Poetry Contest.
June 14, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin's poem "Shower" will be included in the forthcoming anthology, Because I Said So: Poems on the Happiness and Crapiness of Parenthood.
May 17, 2010
Simmons Buntin has been selected as one of 12 nature and science writers participating in the Mount St. Helens Field Residencies this summer.
April 3, 2010
Simmons B. Buntin's second book of poetry, Bloom, will be published in October by Ireland's Salmon Poetry.
March 31, 2010
New issue of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments launches — Issue No. 25, "Virtually There."
September 24, 2009
Simmons Buntin hosted the Terrain.org Issue No. 24 Launch and Reading (featuring David Rothenberg, Pamela Uschuk, Christopher Cokinos, and Deborah Fries) at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. Listen to an mp3 of the performance and view the photo gallery.
August 15, 2009
Simmons Buntin's essay "A Pure Color" will appear in the forthcoming Wildbranch Anthology, with contributions from teachers and students of the Wildbranch Writing Workshop held each summer in Vermont.
June 1-8, 2009
Simmons Buntin participated in the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment biennial conference in Victoria, British Columbia. View Terrain.org Blog entries and the photo gallery.
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.
Get more news and information at Simmons's (ir)regularly updated blog at www.riverfall.blogspot.com.
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