Last month, the Tucson Clay Co-op supplied bowls for poets and poetry lovers to inscribe poems onto before glazing. My younger daughter Juliet and I participated, and then read the poems from our bowls along with a couple other dozen folks, with Tucson poet laureate Ofelia Zepeda, at Bentley’s House of Coffee & Tea in [...]
Simmons B. Buntin is the author of Bloom, a collection of poems published by Ireland's Salmon Poetry in 2010, and Riverfall, published by Salmon Poetry in 2005. He is a tall drink of water who edits Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments. He also works at the University of Arizona as a web program manager, and follows New Urbanism and sustainable development. He is in love with his wife and two daughters, as well as the Sonoran desert and what's left of the undeveloped lands of central Florida. He lives in the community of Civano in southeast Tucson, Arizona.