Background
Simmerman was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1952.
Simmerman was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1952.
He received his Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from University of Iowa in 1980.
He was Regents Professor of English at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he led poetry writing workshops and served as an advisor to the literary journal Thin Air. He took his own life on June 29, 2006 in Flagstaff, Arizona after a long illness. He is also co-editor, with Joseph Duemer, of Dog Music: Poetry about Dogs (Street Martin"s Press, 1996).
(1999 MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTCOVER)
Home (Dragon Gate, Inc, 1983), chosen by Raymond Carver as a Pushcart Prize "Writer's Choice" SelectionOnce Out of Nature (The Galileo Press, Ltd, 1989), a "Best of the Small Presses" feature at the Frankfurt Book FairMoon Go Away, I Don't Love You No More (Miami U Press, 1994)Kingdom Come (Miami U Press, 1999)American Children (BOA Editions, 2005).