Prose, Poetry, and More

Online + In Print

Simmons Buntin has published a fair mix of prose, poetry, multimedia, and more online and in print, including the following prose and poetry available online (scroll down for full list of publications). View interviews on the About page. View Simmons’s latest regular writings, announcements, and updates on his Substack, Urban Wild, by Simmons Buntin.

Prose

“A Sinner’s Shrine and the Sacred City” (an excerpt of “The Castaway” from Satellite)
April 21, 2025, Next City

“Living with Lizards” (an excerpt of “The Sum of All Species” from Satellite)
March 4, 2025, Orion

“Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World”
October 18, 2016, Literary Introduction, Southern Utah University

“Skinny Legs, a Bully, and Inspiration”
July 15, 2014, North American Review Blog

“Aftertude, or the Five Stages of Loss: Simmons B. Buntin Remembering Jake Adam York”
February 4, 2013, Essay Daily

“Dirty Words on Mount St. Helens” [with photo gallery]
December 30, 2012, Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

“Virtual Sense of Place: Terrain.org and the Online Nexus of Literature and Environment”
2009, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Ecological Media Presentation

“Songbird”
2009, Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability (reprinted in Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments)

“A Taco Stand in Every Neighborhood”
Summer/Fall 2007, Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

“The Good Suburb”
August 2000, Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society

Poetry

“Plastic”
October 2010 (with a photo by Chris Jordan), Kyoto Journal

“Whether You are Listening or You are Reading”
“Shine”
2010, Bloom

“On Considering the Universe, Sweet Acacias Blooming between Sidewalk and Street”
Spring 2010, Spiral Orb

“Flare”
Spring 2008, Whiskey Island Magazine (also featured on Verse Daily, November 8, 2008)

“Wild Mint”
September/October 2007, Orion

“Shower”
“Float”
“Great American Chicken”
“Opuntia”
Spring/Summer 2006, Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

“Indigo Bunting”
“Letter from Charles Darwin to His Sister, Catherine”
2005, Riverfall

The Next City Series

In 2007 and 2008 Simmons wrote a biweekly series for Next City magazine. It was a spirited romp through city design, theory, and planning. The entries are listed here from oldest to newest:

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