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 [...]

My new collection of poems, Bloom, is now available!  Published by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry — which also published Riverfall and has a superb lineup of poetry collections and anthologies and puts together a beautiful book — the collection contains 36 poems in three sections, including the long, 8-part poem “Inflorescence.” Tthe poet Alison Hawthorne Deming [...]

Lo Que Pasa, the employee e-magazine of the University of Arizona, has a lovely profile of me over at http://lqp.arizona.edu/node/2875 that just posted today.  The profile also includes a slideshow of some of my photos as I read the poem “In May I Consider My Websites.” Check that out at http://uanews.org/node/33141. Enjoy!

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 [...]

Last weekend at the Washington State vs. Arizona football game my younger daughter got a hold of the camera and took a series of self-portraits. Enjoy!

I’m still trying to get the video converted of this year’s haunted garage (Haunted Pirate Ship theme), so until then, I’ve posted a series of 58 photos in my image gallery, and a half-dozen images below: The underwater room; the first room you enter. Next: the headhunters island. Then, the witch doctor’s cupboard. And across [...]

Last night we hosted Civano’s Spooktacular Halloween Party and Haunted Garage (Haunted Pirate Ship Theme), and we had about 150 friends and neighbors stop by for tricks and treats. I didn’t take very many photos, and I hope to post a video of the haunted garage a bit later, but wanted to throw a few [...]

A few photos, at Saguaro National Park, of the new Subaru Forester I picked up last week. Ever since selling the 2006 Outback, I’ve regretted that decision. And while the Honda Fit was a good little car, with great gas mileage, it was never comfortable for a tall drink of water such as myself, nor [...]

I recently stumbled upon the Beagle Project Blog at http://thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/, which is the blog portion of The Beagle Project at http://www.thebeagleproject.com/. The folks behind the project say: We aim to rebuild the ship that carried Charles Darwin around the world, starting in Darwin’s bicentenary year of 2009. The new Beagle will sail the world in [...]

So here’s the story: This morning at my daughter’s school a mother told me that she had a conversation about God with her daughter, age 5. The mother said that if God took human shape, she imagined He’d be really big; just imagine the size of his hand! “Oh,” said her daughter, “like Simmons would [...]