Words and Wine Reading at the Chemeketa Cellar Tasting Room
2025’s vintage of Word and Wine features creative non-fiction and a blend of poetry, Saturday October 25 at 1:00. Three excellent writers will present their work, in the Riesling Room. This is an opportunity to have wine, maybe a bite and hear essays from Simmons Buntin, the poetry Ingrid Wendt, and the bi-lingual poetry of Juan Cervantes.
Chemeketa Cellars/Northwest Wine Studies Center
215 Doaks Ferry Road NW, Salem OR 97304
Simmons Buntin is the author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far; a collection of sustainable community case studies titled Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places; and two books of poetry, Bloom and Riverfall. He’s also the co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org and president of the nonprofit Terrain Publishing. Simmons lives in Tucson where he is the senior director of marketing and communications at the University of Arizona’s College of Information Science, and can also be found at simmonsbuntin.com or urbanwild.substack.com.
Ingrid Wendt is the author of five books of poems, co-editor of two anthologies, and has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She received honorable mention in both the 2025 River Heron Prize and the 2025 Tor House Prize. Recent poems appear in Poetry, Terrain, About Place, Wallowa, Calyx, and Cutthroat, and her chapbook Keeping it All Afloat, will appear in 2026. https://ingridwendt.com
Juan Cervantes Morales, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the author of two poetry books: Voices of Freedom and Endless Word. He has been a member of the Silverton Poetry Association (2010-2018) and co-founder of Spiral Publishing. He is at this time a special guest as a reader and exponent of topics on poetry for students at Portland State University. In 2020, together with German Rizo, he published La Otra voz, a poetic anthology that includes poems by Oregonian authors of our time. In 2018, he founded the Arte Poética club to promote poetry in the Spanish language in the state of Oregon. Cervantes practices the art of digital photography and as such he photographs landscapes and people.