Salem Poetry Project Featuring Simmons Buntin and Juniper Moon

Simmons Buntin is the author of two books of poetry, Riverfall and Bloom, both published by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry. He is also the co-author of a book of community case studies, Unsprawl: Rebuilding Spaces as Places, and co-editor of the critically acclaimed anthology Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. He is currently at work on a book of nonfiction, Satellite: Essays Far and Near and has published poetry, prose, and photography in Orion, North American Review, Kyoto Review, ISLE, and other journals and anthologies. Simmons is the founder and editor-in-chief of Terrain.org, the world’s longest-publishing online literary journal of place, established in 1997. He is also the director of marketing and communications at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. Catch up with him at www.simmonsbuntin.com or at www.instagram.com/fotosimmons.

Juniper Moon cultivates handwork, as a writer, teaching artist, and letterpress printer. Known to hit the road visiting colleges and school-age camps with co-conspirator Traveling Duende (her 200-pound table top letterpress), she believes in the power of poetry, art, and handwork to change the world one hand-pulled print at a time. Her handwork includes many, many poetry broadsides for lovely humans. A graduate of the Evergreen State College, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. She founded Dwell Press in 2010.

The Salem Poetry Project continues at the Bush Barn Annex, 600 Mission St SE, Salem. Parking for the Bush Barn and Bush House is located off of High Street and the Annex entrance is just to the left of the main entrance. Each week will present a featured reader followed by the Infamous Open Mic: 3 poems or five minutes whichever is first. Featured reader begins at 7:00 and the open mic will directly follow. For more information contact Marc Janssen at [email protected].