Writing the Wild Resistance with Pamela Uschuk and Simmons Buntin
Long time Editors-In-Chief, Simmons Buntin (Terrain.org) and Pam Uschuk (Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts) invite you to join their lively discussion of what makes up their resistance as editors: How can education, literature, and art help protect the natural world? They will share stories of what it’s like to be an editor today and how the choices they make reflect their own resistance in this time of great challenges to freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression, environmental protections, land use, and protection of the wild. After reading juicy selected writings of resistance (poetry and micro-essay/memoir) from their esteemed journals, Simmons and Pam will offer a writing prompt and give you time to write and share. Come with questions: We will close with a moderated Q&A and a take-away writing prompt.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 10-11:30AM Pacific Time
Live online
Long time Editors-In-Chief, Simmons Buntin (Terrain.org) and Pam Uschuk (Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts) invite you to join their lively discussion of what makes up their resistance as editors: How can education, literature, and art help protect the natural world? They will share stories of what it’s like to be an editor today and how the choices they make reflect their own resistance in this time of great challenges to freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression, environmental protections, land use, and protection of the wild. After reading juicy selected writings of resistance (poetry and micro-essay/memoir) from their esteemed journals, Simmons and Pam will offer a writing prompt and give you time to write and share. Come with questions: We will close with a moderated Q&A and a take-away writing prompt.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 10-11:30AM Pacific Time
Live online
Long time Editors-In-Chief, Simmons Buntin (Terrain.org) and Pam Uschuk (Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts) invite you to join their lively discussion of what makes up their resistance as editors: How can education, literature, and art help protect the natural world? They will share stories of what it’s like to be an editor today and how the choices they make reflect their own resistance in this time of great challenges to freedom of speech, freedom of artistic expression, environmental protections, land use, and protection of the wild. After reading juicy selected writings of resistance (poetry and micro-essay/memoir) from their esteemed journals, Simmons and Pam will offer a writing prompt and give you time to write and share. Come with questions: We will close with a moderated Q&A and a take-away writing prompt.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 10-11:30AM Pacific Time
Live online
This is a live, participatory lab and it will not be recorded. A meeting link will be emailed a few days prior to the lab. Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to the lab and will be charged a $10 cancellation fee. Partial scholarships may be available; contact us to apply.
Simmons Buntin is the author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far, publishing in March 2025 by Trinity University Press. He is also the author of two collections of poetry published by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry—Bloom and Riverfall—and, with Ken Pirie, a collection of sustainable community case studies, Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places. With Elizabeth Dodd and Derek Sheffield, he is co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. Simmons is the founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org and president and director of the board of Terrain Publishing. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Human rights activist and wilderness advocate Pamela Uschuk has howled out eight books of poems, including Refugee (Red Hen Press, 2022) which was named by Kirkus Review as one of their favorite books of 2023 and by Orion Magazine as one of their 2022 14 recommended books of poems. Refugee was a finalist for the AZ/New Mexico Book Award. RedHen Press will reprint three of her collections in 2024-2025: Crazy Love (American Book Award), Wild In the Plaza of Memory and Blood Flower. Translated into more than a dozen languages, her work appears in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni Review, Parnassus Review, etc. Refugee is being translated into French and Greek. Among her awards are the 2024 Pearl S. Buck Visiting Writer Residency at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA, a Storyknife Women Writers Residency in Homer, Alaska, Black Earth Institute Fellowship 2018-2021, War Poetry Prize from winningwriters.com, New Millenium Poetry Prize, Best of the Web, the Struga International Poetry Prize (for a theme poem), the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the King’s English Poetry Prize and prizes from Ascent, Iris, and Amnesty International. Editor-In-Chief of Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, Uschuk lives in Bayfield, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona. She edited the anthology, Truth To Power: Writers Respond To The Rhetoric Of Hate And Fear, 2017; Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century, Winter 2020; Through the Ash, New Leaves: Writers Respond to the Climate Crisis, 2022; and The Nature of Nature and Human Nature, 2024. Pam is a Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Black Earth Institute. Her work was featured in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series, chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. She is finishing a mixed-genre memoir Hope’s Crazed Angels: An Odyssey Through the Whispering Disease.