First Word Wednesdays Reading: Simmons Buntin & Kirk Wisland
416 E 9th St.
Tucson
AZ 85705
The “Keep It Together!” Reading Series Presents First Word Wednesdays with Simmons Buntin and Kirk Wisland
Join University of Arizona Creative Writing MFA alums Simmons Buntin and Kirk Wisland for an in-person reading hosted by Lydia Paar!
Wednesday, April 6:30 – 8 p.m.
REVEL Tucson Wine Bar
416 E. 9th St.
Tucson, AZ 85705
Simmons Buntin will read from Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far, along with author Kirk Wisland.
Simmons Buntin is author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far; a collection of sustainable community case studies Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places; and books of poetry Bloom and Riverfall. He’s co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy and founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org and president of Terrain Publishing. Simmons is senior director of marketing and communications at the University of Arizona’s College of Information Science in Tucson.
“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
Photo by Jackie Tran, courtesy Tucson Foodie.