How lucky am I?
Eduardo and
Simmons, both. Simmons made
this flyer. Beautiful isn't it? As a friend said earlier, Simmons can do anything.
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postcard: poetry reading, Casa Libre en la Solana, 228 North 4th Avenue, Tucson, ArizonaOn Thursday, July 27th at 7 p.m. poets
Eduardo C. Corral, Gina Franco, and
Simmons B. Buntin will read from their work. A book signing and wine and cheese reception will follow. Free and open to the public.
About the authors:
Eduardo C. Corral holds degrees from Arizona State University and the Iowa WritersÂ’ Workshop. His work has recently been honored with a Discovery/The Nation award and a MacDowell Colony Residence. His poems are featured in a chapbook, The Border Triptych, published by Web Del Sol, and he serves as interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. Eduardo lives in Casa Grande.
Gina Franco, author of
The Keepsake Storm (The University of Arizona Press), is the recipient of an
Academy of American Poets Prize, the Robert Chasen Poetry Prize, the Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize, and the 2006 Bread Loaf Meralmikjen Fellowship in Poetry. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and has appeared in such journals as
Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and
Crazyhorse. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at
Knox College. She lives in
Galesburg, Illinois but continues to spend her summers in
Arizona, where she grew up.
Simmons B. Buntin is the founding editor of
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments. He is the recipient of an
Academy of American Poets Prize, a Tucson-Pima Arts Council grant, and the Colorado Artists Fellowship for Poetry. His first book of poetry,
Riverfall, was published in May 2005 by
Ireland's Salmon Publishing.
Simmons lives in the community of Civano in southeast
Tucson, where he was recently seen trying to tempt a coyote to eat lightly sauteed mesquite beans out of his hand.
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I've missed talking to myself here. But even this little bit has my wrist and hand in a seizure cramp. My head too. The hurdle is I don't wait well. Healing's finding something else as good to do--and doing it in a splint--and I don't do that too well either.
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