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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.
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$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.