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Upcoming Events
Join Simmons at one of the following events—and check back regularly for the latest schedule:
October 20-23, 2010
Reading and Slideshow Presentation on Mount St. Helens
Western Literature Association Annual Conference,
Prescott, Arizona
February 2-5, 2011
Terrain.org Exhibit and 2 Panels: "Environmental Writing in the Age of Global Climate Change" and "Who Makes the Best Student?: Growing Your Program with Nontraditional Majors"
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair, Washington, DC
February 28 - April 4, 2011
Birds and Poems: A Poetry Workshop taught by Simmons Buntin and Eric Magrane
Poetry Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
March 13-14, 2011
Poetry Reading as part of the Tucson Festival of Books
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
June 22-26, 2011
Terrain.org Exhibit
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference, Bloomington, Indiana
News
What's Simmons up to? Here's some of the latest news:
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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