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POG Arts Tucson
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Derek Sheffield, Lisa Periale Martin & Simmons Buntin
Join us for an evening of poetry with Washington state’s Derek Sheffield and Tucson’s Lisa Periale Martin and Simmons Buntin.
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 7-8:30 p.m.
Wave Archive
$10.00 suggested donation. POG Arts Tucson events are free, but donations are recommended.
Derek Sheffield received a 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. His other collections include Not for Luck, selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, Through the Second Skin, runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. He teaches in Western Colorado University’s low-residency MFA program, edits poetry for Terrain.org, and can often be found in the woods along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range near Leavenworth, Washington.
Lisa Periale Martin is a poet, writer, librarian, mariachi aficionado, and former farmworker. Her writing is steeped in the essence and wonder of the Sonoran Southwest. Tiny Seed, Claw & Blossom, Plants & Poetry Journal, RockPaperPoem, and Harpy Hybrid Review have published her work. Her first chapbook, Collectives of Poets: From Ambush to Zooming Zeal, was published in 2023 by Chax Press.
Simmons Buntin is the author of two books of poetry, Bloom and Riverfall, as well as a collection of community case studies, Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places, and Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far (Trinity University Press, 2025). He is the founding editor of Terrain.org and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Sky Island Alliance & Terrain.org present
Satellite Book Launch
Join Simmons Buntin for a multimedia presentation, reading, and signing in support of his new book Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far. Books will be available at a discounted price of $20.
No registration required–please join us!
Sunday, March 9, 4-5 p.m.
Center for Creative Photography
The University of Arizona
(closest parking is in the Park Avenue Garage on the northeast corner of Speedway Blvd. and Park Ave.)
“I can’t think of a better guide—to whiptails, desert super blooms, craft beer, constellations, photography, fatherhood, community, and, well, life—than Simmons Buntin. From Denver to Tucson, to the Bosque del Apache, Mt. St. Helens, and beyond, Buntin writes with equal facility about the beautiful, dynamic intricacies of the natural world and the many lovely, knee-buckling complexities of family. These wide-ranging, self-aware, astute essays will leave you enlightened and deeply glad—glad right down to your heart and bones, the feathery roots of what some of us might even call a soul.”
— Joe Wilkins, author of The Entire Sky and The Mountain and the Fathers
This event is generously sponsored by:
Terrain.org & Writing the Wild present
8×9: An AWP Los Angeles Off-Site Reading
Join nine place-based writers for a literary reading of eight minutes each, plus brews, to kick off AWP in Los Angeles!
No registration required–please join us for this free event! Chips will be served, and buy your drink at the Audio Graph bar.
Wednesday, March 26, 7-9 p.m.
Audio Graph Beer Co.
Los Angeles
This event is sponsored by and features contributors to Terrain.org and Writing the Wild.
Readers
- Annie Wenstrup
- Chaun Ballard
- Christina Rivera
- Jennifer Case
- Juan Morales
- Rob Carney
- Ryo Yamaguchi
- Sean Hill
- Simmons Buntin
Join Simmons at #AWP25 Los Angeles!
Simmons Buntin will be participating in an off-site reading, book signings at the Trinity University Press and Terrain.org booths, and staffing the Terrain.org booth (323). Join him!
Thursday-Saturday, March 27-29, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily
AWP Conference and Bookfair
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles