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Terrain.org Reading Series + 25th Anniversary Reading
February 24, 2025 | Terrain.org Reading Series 29
Featuring Juan J. Morales, Rachel Richardson, and Simmons Buntin. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd.
December 2, 2024 | Terrain.org + Writing the Wild Reading (Reading Series 29) Featuring Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Debra Magpie Earling, and Jamie Fored. Hosted by Krissy Kludt and J. Drew Lanham.
October 24, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 28: Dear America Featuring Michael Branch, John T. Price, and Laura Jackson. Hosted by Editor and Author Elizabeth Dodd.
September 30, 2024 | A Tribute to Martha Silano by Eleven Poets: An Online Reading Hosted by Terrain.org Featuring Derek Sheffield (host), Heidi Seaborn, Tina Schumann, Barbara Crooker, Kelli Russell Agodon, Jed Meyrs, Ronda Broatch, Molly Tenenbaum, Tina Kelley, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, and Barbara Ungar.
September 23, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 27: Dear America Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Lauret Savoy, and Suzanne Roberts. Hosted by Editor and Author Elizabeth Dodd.
August 26, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 26 Featuring Pam Houston, Blas Falconer, and Jennifer Case. Hosted by Editor and Poet Suzanne Frischkorn.
May 20, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 25 Featuring Charles Goodrich, Patricia Caspers, and Greg Wrenn. Hosted by Editor and Poet Suzanne Frischkorn.
April 22, 2024 | Terrain.org Earth Day + National Poetry Month Reading Featuring Dorianne Laux, Gary Soto, and Byron F. Aspaas. Hosted by Poetry Editor Derek Sheffield. Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University.
March 25, 2024 | Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest Winner Reading Featuring Katie Duane, Tim Raphael, and Hannah Smith. Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin.
January 11, 2024 | Terrain.org 25th Anniversary Reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center Featuring Julie Swarstad Johnson, Derek Sheffield, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Introduced by Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin.
December 7, 2023 | Terrain.org + Writing the Wild Reading Featuring Rowen White, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Elizabeth Bradfield. Introduced by Simmons Buntin and hosted by Krissy Kludt and J. Drew Lanham.
September 25, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 21 Featuring Kate Wisel, Lauren Camp, and Leonora Simonovis. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd and sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Fund at Kansas State University.
May 22, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 20: Women Writing the West Featuring Melissa L. Sevigny, Kathryn Smith, and Kathryn Wilder. Hosted by Leonora Simonovis.
April 24, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 19: Earth Day and National Poetry Month Featuring Pattiann Rogers, Andrew C. Gottlieb, and Kamella Cruz. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
March 27, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 18: Contest Winners Featuring Sean Hill, Anna Farro Henderson, Maura High, and Yelizaveta P. Renfro. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd and sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Fund at Kansas State University.
November 28, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 17 Featuring Chris Dombrowski, CMarie Fuhrman, and Julie Trimingham. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
October 24, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 16 Featuring Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Tara Lynn Masih, and Suzanne Frischkorn. Hosted and sponsored by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
September 26, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 15 Featuring John T. Price, Jennifer Case, and Sean Enfield. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd. Sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Fund at Kansas State University.
June 27, 2022 | Terrain.org Online Conversation (Reading Series 14) Featuring Sandra Steingraber and Taylor Brorby discussing Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land. Hosted by Simmons Buntin.
May 23, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 13 Featuring Suzanne Roberts, Sholeh Wolpé, and Christina Rivera Cogswell. Hosted by Simmons Buntin.
April 25, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 12: Earth Day and Poetry Month Featuring Joe Wilkins, Scott Edward Anderson, and Betsy Aoki. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
March 28, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 11: Contest Winners Featuring Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Melina Walling, and Sean Sam. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd.
November 11, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 10 Featuring Karen An-hwei Lee, Kevin Goodan, and Kimberly Burwock. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
October 25, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 9 Featuring Pam Houston, English Brooks, and Ramona Emerson. Hosted by Danielle Dubrasky. Sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, Southern Utah University.
September 27, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 8 Featuring Joy Castro, Elizabeth Jacobson, and Allen Braden. Hosted by Juan J. Morales.
August 23, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 7 Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Suzanne S. Rancourt, and Anne Haven McDonnell. Hosted by Derek Sheffield. Sponsored by Sheffield Utility Sales.
July 26, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 6: ASLE Featuring Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Dodd, and José Angel Araguz. Hosted by Anne Haven McDonnell. Held in conjunction with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) bienneial conference.
June 28, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 5 Featuring Sandra Steingraber, Taylor Brorby, and Tamie Parker Song. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd. Sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Award at Kansas State University.
May 24, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 4 Featuring Rhina P. Espaillat, Lee Herrick, and Chaun Ballard. Hosted by Suzanne Frischkorn. Sponsored by the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
April 26, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 3: Earth Day and Poetry Month Featuring Jane Hirshfield, J. Drew Lanham, and Derek Sheffield. Hosted by Alison Hawthorne Deming. Sponsored by the Alison Hawthorne Deming Regents Professorship at the University of Arizona.
March 22, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 2: Contest Winners Featuring Arthur Sze, Susan Cohen, Kristina Moriconi, and Cameron Walker. Hosted by Derek Sheffield. Sponsored by Knight Law Firm, PC.
February 22, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 1 Featuring Janisse Ray, Juan J. Morales, and Brittney Corrigan. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd. Sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Award at Kansas State University.
December 2, 2024 | Terrain.org + Writing the Wild Reading (Reading Series 29) Featuring Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Debra Magpie Earling, and Jamie Fored. Hosted by Krissy Kludt and J. Drew Lanham.
October 24, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 28: Dear America Featuring Michael Branch, John T. Price, and Laura Jackson. Hosted by Editor and Author Elizabeth Dodd.
September 30, 2024 | A Tribute to Martha Silano by Eleven Poets: An Online Reading Hosted by Terrain.org Featuring Derek Sheffield (host), Heidi Seaborn, Tina Schumann, Barbara Crooker, Kelli Russell Agodon, Jed Meyrs, Ronda Broatch, Molly Tenenbaum, Tina Kelley, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, and Barbara Ungar.
September 23, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 27: Dear America Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Lauret Savoy, and Suzanne Roberts. Hosted by Editor and Author Elizabeth Dodd.
August 26, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 26 Featuring Pam Houston, Blas Falconer, and Jennifer Case. Hosted by Editor and Poet Suzanne Frischkorn.
May 20, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 25 Featuring Charles Goodrich, Patricia Caspers, and Greg Wrenn. Hosted by Editor and Poet Suzanne Frischkorn.
April 22, 2024 | Terrain.org Earth Day + National Poetry Month Reading Featuring Dorianne Laux, Gary Soto, and Byron F. Aspaas. Hosted by Poetry Editor Derek Sheffield. Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University.
March 25, 2024 | Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest Winner Reading Featuring Katie Duane, Tim Raphael, and Hannah Smith. Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin.
January 11, 2024 | Terrain.org 25th Anniversary Reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center Featuring Julie Swarstad Johnson, Derek Sheffield, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Introduced by Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin.
December 7, 2023 | Terrain.org + Writing the Wild Reading Featuring Rowen White, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Elizabeth Bradfield. Introduced by Simmons Buntin and hosted by Krissy Kludt and J. Drew Lanham.
September 25, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 21 Featuring Kate Wisel, Lauren Camp, and Leonora Simonovis. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd and sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Fund at Kansas State University.
May 22, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 20: Women Writing the West Featuring Melissa L. Sevigny, Kathryn Smith, and Kathryn Wilder. Hosted by Leonora Simonovis.
April 24, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 19: Earth Day and National Poetry Month Featuring Pattiann Rogers, Andrew C. Gottlieb, and Kamella Cruz. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
March 27, 2023 | Terrain.org Reading Series 18: Contest Winners Featuring Sean Hill, Anna Farro Henderson, Maura High, and Yelizaveta P. Renfro. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd and sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Fund at Kansas State University.
November 28, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 17 Featuring Chris Dombrowski, CMarie Fuhrman, and Julie Trimingham. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
October 24, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 16 Featuring Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Tara Lynn Masih, and Suzanne Frischkorn. Hosted and sponsored by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
September 26, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 15 Featuring John T. Price, Jennifer Case, and Sean Enfield. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd. Sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Fund at Kansas State University.
June 27, 2022 | Terrain.org Online Conversation (Reading Series 14) Featuring Sandra Steingraber and Taylor Brorby discussing Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land. Hosted by Simmons Buntin.
May 23, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 13 Featuring Suzanne Roberts, Sholeh Wolpé, and Christina Rivera Cogswell. Hosted by Simmons Buntin.
April 25, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 12: Earth Day and Poetry Month Featuring Joe Wilkins, Scott Edward Anderson, and Betsy Aoki. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
March 28, 2022 | Terrain.org Reading Series 11: Contest Winners Featuring Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Melina Walling, and Sean Sam. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd.
November 11, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 10 Featuring Karen An-hwei Lee, Kevin Goodan, and Kimberly Burwock. Hosted by Derek Sheffield.
October 25, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 9 Featuring Pam Houston, English Brooks, and Ramona Emerson. Hosted by Danielle Dubrasky. Sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, Southern Utah University.
September 27, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 8 Featuring Joy Castro, Elizabeth Jacobson, and Allen Braden. Hosted by Juan J. Morales.
August 23, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 7 Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Suzanne S. Rancourt, and Anne Haven McDonnell. Hosted by Derek Sheffield. Sponsored by Sheffield Utility Sales.
July 26, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 6: ASLE Featuring Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Dodd, and José Angel Araguz. Hosted by Anne Haven McDonnell. Held in conjunction with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) bienneial conference.
June 28, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 5 Featuring Sandra Steingraber, Taylor Brorby, and Tamie Parker Song. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd. Sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Award at Kansas State University.
May 24, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 4 Featuring Rhina P. Espaillat, Lee Herrick, and Chaun Ballard. Hosted by Suzanne Frischkorn. Sponsored by the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
April 26, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 3: Earth Day and Poetry Month Featuring Jane Hirshfield, J. Drew Lanham, and Derek Sheffield. Hosted by Alison Hawthorne Deming. Sponsored by the Alison Hawthorne Deming Regents Professorship at the University of Arizona.
March 22, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 2: Contest Winners Featuring Arthur Sze, Susan Cohen, Kristina Moriconi, and Cameron Walker. Hosted by Derek Sheffield. Sponsored by Knight Law Firm, PC.
February 22, 2021 | Terrain.org Reading Series 1 Featuring Janisse Ray, Juan J. Morales, and Brittney Corrigan. Hosted by Elizabeth Dodd. Sponsored by the Michael Donnelly Faculty Award at Kansas State University.
Editor Presentations
October 16, 2021 | The Real World is Virtual: How Digital Landscapes Can Save Actual Landscapes
Simmons Buntin, Terrain.org Editor-in-Chief and Terrain Publishing President
Dear America Events
October 24, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 28: Dear America
Featuring Michael Branch, John T. Price, and Laura Jackson. Hosted by Editor and Author Elizabeth Dodd.
September 23, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 27: Dear America Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Lauret Savoy, and Suzanne Roberts. Hosted by Editor and Author Elizabeth Dodd.
November 10, 2020 | After the Election Reading and Town Hall, Hosted by Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company Featuring Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Cherene Sherrard, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Simmons Buntin, Derek Sheffield, and Elizabeth Dodd
October 19, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Sherwin Bitsui (in absentia), Fenton Johnson, Debra Marquart, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
September 23, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring David Gessner, Victoria Chang, Chris Dombroswki, Ana Maria Spagna, and Jeffrey Foucault
August 19, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Camille T. Dungy, Allison Hedge Coke, Todd Boss, and Heather Ryan
July 22, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Sandra Steingraber, Francisco Cantú, Diana Babineau, and Dean Rader
June 24, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Jane Hirshfield, J. Drew Lanham, Kurt Caswell, and Blas Falconer
May 20, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Pam Houston, Elena Passarello, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Arthur Sze
April 22, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ellen Bass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Naomi Shihab Nye
September 23, 2024 | Terrain.org Reading Series 27: Dear America Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Lauret Savoy, and Suzanne Roberts. Hosted by Editor and Author Elizabeth Dodd.
November 10, 2020 | After the Election Reading and Town Hall, Hosted by Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company Featuring Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Cherene Sherrard, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Simmons Buntin, Derek Sheffield, and Elizabeth Dodd
October 19, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Sherwin Bitsui (in absentia), Fenton Johnson, Debra Marquart, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
September 23, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring David Gessner, Victoria Chang, Chris Dombroswki, Ana Maria Spagna, and Jeffrey Foucault
August 19, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Camille T. Dungy, Allison Hedge Coke, Todd Boss, and Heather Ryan
July 22, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Sandra Steingraber, Francisco Cantú, Diana Babineau, and Dean Rader
June 24, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Jane Hirshfield, J. Drew Lanham, Kurt Caswell, and Blas Falconer
May 20, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall Featuring Pam Houston, Elena Passarello, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Arthur Sze
April 22, 2020 | Dear America Virtual Town Hall 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ellen Bass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Naomi Shihab Nye
2019-2012
October 6-7, 2016 | Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin served with Sherwin Bitsui as keynote readers. Simmons also facilitated a workshop on publishing, with Pilgrimage editor Juan Morales.
March 6-9, 2013 | Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair Boston, Massachusetts Terrain.org’s literary reading with Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability and Ecotone: Reimagining Place, sponsored and hosted by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, featured wonderful readings from David Gessner, Sheryl St. Germain, Derek Sheffield, Cynthia Huntington, Joe Wilkins, Lauren Eggert-Crowe, and Bill Roorbach.
March 3, 2012 | Reading: Terrain.org 15th Anniversary Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair Chicago, Illinois We celebrated Terrain.org’s 15th anniversary with a reading at AWP, hosted by nonfiction editor Joshua Foster, and featuring readings by Elizabeth Dodd, Kathryn Miles, Lauret Savoy, and Andrew Wingfield.
- Read Simmons’s keynote, “Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World.”
March 6-9, 2013 | Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair Boston, Massachusetts Terrain.org’s literary reading with Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability and Ecotone: Reimagining Place, sponsored and hosted by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, featured wonderful readings from David Gessner, Sheryl St. Germain, Derek Sheffield, Cynthia Huntington, Joe Wilkins, Lauren Eggert-Crowe, and Bill Roorbach.
March 3, 2012 | Reading: Terrain.org 15th Anniversary Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair Chicago, Illinois We celebrated Terrain.org’s 15th anniversary with a reading at AWP, hosted by nonfiction editor Joshua Foster, and featuring readings by Elizabeth Dodd, Kathryn Miles, Lauret Savoy, and Andrew Wingfield.
2011-2008
February 5, 2011 | “Live from AWP” Interview with Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Washington, D.C.
Terrain.org contributing editor Rafael Otto interviews Terrain.org’s editor-in-chief, live from the Terrain.org table.
April 7-10, 2010 | Reading: “Wild Lives /Raucous Pens”, Bookfair Table, and More Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair Denver, Colorado View photos from the Terrain.org / Hawk & Handsaw “Wild Lives / Raucous Pen” reading, AWP bookfair (Terrain.org table), and more.
September 24, 2009 | Launch and Reading: Terrain.org Issue 24, co-sponsored by Center for Biological Diversity The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, Arizona A celebratory event for the launch of Issue 24. Borders + Bridges, with readings by Deborah Fries, Christopher Cokinos, Pamela Uschuk, and David Rothenberg. Listen to the full issue launch and reading:
June 1-8, 2009 | Terrain.org Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin Blogs ASLE Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2009 Biennial Conference University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia What happens when Terrain.org’s editor-in-chief spends a week at the ASLE conference in Victoria? Lots of photos and blogging, for starters.
February 2, 2008 | Panel: The Future of Environmental Essay Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair New York City, New York Moderated by Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin and featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Gessner, David Rothenberg, and Lauret Savoy
January 31, 2008 | Reading: Terrain.org 10th Anniversary Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City, New York Featuring Scott Edward Anderson, Teague Bohlen, Simmons B. Buntin, Scott Calhoun, Philip Fried, Deborah Fries, Suzanne Frischkorn, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Dennis Must, Shann Palmer, David Rothenberg, Andrew Wingfield, and Jake Adam York
April 7-10, 2010 | Reading: “Wild Lives /Raucous Pens”, Bookfair Table, and More Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair Denver, Colorado View photos from the Terrain.org / Hawk & Handsaw “Wild Lives / Raucous Pen” reading, AWP bookfair (Terrain.org table), and more.
September 24, 2009 | Launch and Reading: Terrain.org Issue 24, co-sponsored by Center for Biological Diversity The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, Arizona A celebratory event for the launch of Issue 24. Borders + Bridges, with readings by Deborah Fries, Christopher Cokinos, Pamela Uschuk, and David Rothenberg. Listen to the full issue launch and reading:
June 1-8, 2009 | Terrain.org Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin Blogs ASLE Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2009 Biennial Conference University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia What happens when Terrain.org’s editor-in-chief spends a week at the ASLE conference in Victoria? Lots of photos and blogging, for starters.
February 2, 2008 | Panel: The Future of Environmental Essay Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair New York City, New York Moderated by Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin and featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Gessner, David Rothenberg, and Lauret Savoy
January 31, 2008 | Reading: Terrain.org 10th Anniversary Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City, New York Featuring Scott Edward Anderson, Teague Bohlen, Simmons B. Buntin, Scott Calhoun, Philip Fried, Deborah Fries, Suzanne Frischkorn, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Dennis Must, Shann Palmer, David Rothenberg, Andrew Wingfield, and Jake Adam York
