The gift that is @joeannhart.bsky.social keeps on giving! My essay collection Satellite has been named one of the best environmental books they've read of 2025 by @ecolit.bsky.social . Thanks JoeAnn and EcoLit Books! ecolitbooks.com/2025/12/12/t...

One of the fund-raising auction items for @terrainorg.bsky.social is a fly fishing trip with Joe Wilkins. If only I lived closer to Oregon I'd buy that twice. app.galabid.com/terrainorg-2...

Portland friends, join me for a haunted reading and signing at Rose City Book Pub tonight at 7! simmonsbuntin.com/event/portla...

@terrainorg.bsky.social was just named one of Ten Outstanding Literary Magazines for Poetry by Poets & Writers magazine. Woot! www.pw.org/content/ten_...

We had a wonderful reading with @simmonsbuntin.bsky.social last night! Next up is @sgj.bsky.social on Oct 7 @5:30pm! @texastechlib.bsky.social Register Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #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!

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.

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!

When cruelty is seen as patriotic, compassion is seen as treasonous.

"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.

Friends, I've got a new post up on my substack--been a minute! open.substack.com/pub/urbanwil...

All I’m saying is that the signs from our alien overlords are everywhere, if you just look… 👽

A study in front porches, or, 4 ways of welcoming your neighbor.

I am pretty sure this new view of ours will never get old.

A little evening drama to the north.

Show-off.

Stepping out into the backyard and looking up while the ocotillo still blooms.

It’s kind of an embarrassment of floral riches around here right now. Gratitude. 💛💚💜

America 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.

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...

Is there any flower lovelier than the desert bird-of-paradise?

I’ve been so busy I haven’t properly stopped to admire the cactus blooms. Here’s a good start—on campus today.

Flagstaff and other folks going to the Northern Arizona Book Festival I'll be reading from Satellite at Firecreek Coffee beginning at 6 p.m. this Saturday, April 12, after tabling for Terrain at Heritage Square. Please join me! simmonsbuntin.com/event/noazbf... #flagstaff #reading #bookfestival

“I really just want to be the warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.” — Conor Oberst, Bright Eyes

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

A little something about the technology of place, no matter your place, up on Urban Wild this morning for National Poetry Month. urbanwild.substack.com/p/poetry-eco... #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #technology #place #apps

I’m in LA for #AWP25, but mostly I’m just smitten by the birds-of-paradise, their own magical form of literature.

It’s beginning to feel like it’s time for a flower a day again. This is not the start of it, not yet. I’m thinking perhaps in mid- to late April. And there will be some news around that time to share I think, as well. 💚🌼

#tucson friends, join me at 1 p.m. this Saturday, March 22, at Barnes & Noble Eastside Tucson for an #author event in celebration of my #newbook, Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006... #satellite #essays #writing #publishing

Writer friends, what are ya'll doing on April 24? Join me and Pam Uschuk for a fun, 1.5-hour class on writing the wild resistance! www.writingthewild.org/registration...

Today I had the honor of moderating a panel with Elhadji Ndoye, Karen Brennan, and Jamie Quatro. It was stellar. I want to point out Ndoye's book, Dream On, Seydou, and his amazing work with The Forgotten Children. Learn more and support their important work at givebutter.com/africanight.

Heading to the Tucson Festival of Books? Here's a little more about the U of A participants, including me! I'll be at: - All Parents Matter, Saturday, 11:30-12:30, Koffler 216 (panelist) - Writing Roots in Tucson, Sunday, 1-2, Student Union Sabino Room (moderator) news.arizona.edu/employee-new...

If you missed the launch of Satellite last Sunday, do not fret! Here are a few photos and there are several book and related events coming up, starting this weekend with the Tucson Festival of Books! Get the latest event details at simmonsbuntin.com/events. #newbook #reading #satellite #book

Mar 10. Cactus a day (more or less). New essay collection by Simmons Buntin! @simmonsbuntin.bsky.social #cactus #photography #tucson

Great mail day! SATELLITE - Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far (Trinity University Press) by Simmons Buntin has arrived. I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long while. @tupress.bsky.social @simmonsbuntin.bsky.social #essays #fatherhood #nature

A nice meditation on nature and sharing our world with animals from @simmonsbuntin.bsky.social

Sometimes ya just gotta take a break from the news. (This is our greyhound Max.)

On Sunday I'll launch this book, nearly 2 decades in the making, at the Center for Creative Photography. In Tucson? Join me from 4-5 p.m. There will a quiz with prizes! Details at simmonsbuntin.com/event/satell.... Thanks to @skyislandalliance.bsky.social and @terrainorg.bsky.social for sponsoring!

My thanks to Orion for publishing an excerpt of Satellite—a condensed version of the first essay, “The Sum of All Species.” Check it out! orionmagazine.org/article/livi... #satellite #fatherhood #lizards #daughters #neighbors #rattlesnakes #peril #danger #community

It's publication day for my book Satellite, but also: on the eve of my book’s publication—a book about fatherhood—my own father has passed away. urbanwild.substack.com/p/on-my-fath... #father #newbook #satellite #gratitude #grief #fatherhood

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore?” — Deng Ming-Dao

Looking for inspiration in your writing? Maybe some writing prompts and pretty pictures to help out? urbanwild.substack.com/p/16-writing... #writing #writingprompts #essays #creativenonfiction #satellite #photos #newbook #bookclubs #writers

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke