Alas, I have been neglecting this, my blog. But I wanted to post my reading list for Monday evening’s poetry reading at the Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe in Boulder. Get yer details here. I hope you’ll join me to hear the following: “Friday Afternoon” – Bloom “Drawing” – Bloom “Plastic” – Bloom “Shower” – [...]

I’d love to see you at one of the following events coming up in late June and early July as we trek up to the Pacific Northwest: June 29, 2011 : 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Poetry Reading with Derek Sheffield Johnston Ridge Observatory, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington July 6, 2011 : [...]

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 [...]

For those of you following along, here’s what I’ll be reading when I have the pleasure and honor of joining David Ray at the Tucson Festival of Books on the UA campus (our session is 11:30 a.m., Sunday, Kiva Room, Student Union Memorial Center): “Drawing” from Bloom “Friday Afternoon” from Bloom “Indigo Bunting” from Riverfall [...]

Only in its third year, the Tucson Festival of Books — held this year on March 12 and 13, at the University of Arizona — is so well run and well-attended you’d think it’s in its thirtieth year! And this year I have the good fortune of being one of the readers. I’ll be reading [...]

Local Authors Read from New Nature Anthology at Tohono Chul Park February 20, 2011, 2-4 p.m., Tohono Chul Park Education Center Classroom #1 Alison Hawthorne Deming, Gayle Jandrey, Tony Cross, and Simmons B. Buntin—a few of the more than 50 contributors to Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-based Writing—will read from the volume [...]

… for a reading of poetry and more! Edge Reading Series Wednesday, January 19, 7:30 p.m. Casa Libre en La Solana 28 North 4th Avenue Tucson, AZ Suggested Donation: $5 Come to Edge: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers. Edge is a series of local and national writers and cross-genre artists, emphasizing diversity [...]

Birds and Poems with Simmons Buntin and Eric Magrane Mondays, February 28 through April 4, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. except no class meeting on March 14 plus a field trip on Saturday, April 2, 7:00 am to 11:00 a.m. Tuition: $150  + $10 materials/field trip fee Both birding and poetry are great practice in [...]

If you’re in or around Tucson and haven’t already received the invite, consider this your invitation! Please join me, the family, and about 80 other neighbors and friends for the launch of my new book of poems, Bloom (Salmon Poetry). The launch begins with a BBQ and potluck at 5:30 followed by a poetry reading [...]

It’s never too early to get the word out: Birds and Poems: A Poetry Workshop with Simmons Buntin and Eric Magrane [view flyer] Mondays, February 28 through April 4, 2011, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — except no class meeting on March 14 plus a field trip on Saturday, April 2, 7:00 am to 11:00 [...]