@simmonsbuntin.bsky.social
Author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far. Founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org. Tall drink of water. Dog walker. Photo taker.
Portland friends, join me for a haunted reading and signing at Rose City Book Pub tonight at 7!
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@terrainorg.bsky.social was just named one of Ten Outstanding Literary Magazines for Poetry by Poets & Writers magazine. Woot!
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We had a wonderful reading with @simmonsbuntin.bsky.social last night! Next up is @sgj.bsky.social on Oct 7 @5:30pm!
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#Fall2025VirtualReadingSeries #virtualreading #reading #writers #literature #community #nature #archives
My thanks to ASLE for sharing Satellite. On that note, I'm reading from Satellite on September 18th online with the Sowell Collection. Check my website at simmonsbuntin.com/events for details!
12.09.2025 05:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for sharing! 😃
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Colorado friends, please join me at an upcoming reading next week!
Sept. 2, @ Analogue Books in Pueblo w/ Juan Morales
Sept. 3, @ Crystal Springs Brewing Co. in Louisville
Sept. 5 @ CU Denver College of Architecture and Planning
See all events at simmonsbuntin.com/events
Hope to see you there!
Essays of the earth and how to love it.
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My gratitude to @joeannhart.bsky.social for this kind review of Satellite:
ecolitbooks.com/2025/08/06/s...
Hope you’re having a vibrant summer solstice!
20.06.2025 17:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When cruelty is seen as patriotic, compassion is seen as treasonous.
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"Stopver," on Sandhill cranes, fatherhood, migration, and joy, is one of 16 essays appearing in Simmons Buntin's new book, Satellite.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/stopover/
#essay #nonfiction #cranes #fatherhood #daughters #joy #family
Strawberry Moon, with hummingbird wind chime.
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Friends, I've got a new post up on my substack--been a minute!
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Thanks! We are delighted to be back in Civano.
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All I’m saying is that the signs from our alien overlords are everywhere, if you just look… 👽
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A study in front porches, or, 4 ways of welcoming your neighbor.
10.05.2025 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lovely.
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I am pretty sure this new view of ours will never get old.
08.05.2025 02:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Lovely. ♥️
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A little evening drama to the north.
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Show-off.
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Stepping out into the backyard and looking up while the ocotillo still blooms.
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Yellow flowers on prickly pear cactus
It’s kind of an embarrassment of floral riches around here right now. Gratitude. 💛💚💜
30.04.2025 15:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0America is not a Christian nation.
America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.
Lovely to see this finished copy of @julianhoffman.bsky.social 's very special book, Lifelines - published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social on 15th May.
25.04.2025 17:43 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
From a threatened urban shrine to the isolation of suburbs, what happens when communities are cast away? Read this excerpt of Satellite, from the essay "The Castaway," to find out!
nextcity.org/features/a-s...
Important reading for Earth Day, and everyday, from literary journals near and far:
www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
These are lovely too. I walk by some that are like these almost daily. I’ll snap a few photos and post them.
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Desert bird-of-paradise beginning to bloom
Is there any flower lovelier than the desert bird-of-paradise?
17.04.2025 15:27 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I don’t I’m afraid. But if you’re in Tucson, these are the prickly pears just down the stairs from the Park Avenue Garage as one heads to the Speedway underpass.
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