Busboys Books Presents: Buddy Wakefield
Date and Time
Nov 7, 2019 6:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Nov 7, 2019 6:00 pm
Brookland
BUDDY WAKEFIELD, three-time world champion spoken word artist, the inaugural author released on Write Bloody Publishing, and the most toured performance poet in history, returns to D.C. for the release of A Choir of Honest Killers, his first book of new work in eight years. You're not gonna wanna miss this.
Come exactly as you are.
Except babies. Don't bring those.
Or children.
I promise.
QUOTES:
“Buddy Wakefield!” —Norman Lear
“Buddy Wakefield…” —Mos Def
“Buuuddy.” —Amy Poehler
“Buddy Buddy Buddy Buddy, Buddy!” —Whitney Cummings
“Buddy F*!@#^g Wakefield.” —Ani DiFranco
“Hi Buddy.” —Van Jones
“Buddy Wakefield” —Reggie Watts
“Budderfield!” —Amber Tamblyn
“Wakefield!” —Utah Phillips
“Buddy Wakefield.” —Gregory Alan Isakov
“Buddy Wakefield?” —David Cross
“Buddy Wakefield.” —Saul Williams
“Buhdy” —Amy Schumer
“Bobby was it?” —Tilda Swinton
“Buddy Wakefield is an unbullshit artist… and he’ll make you laugh your ass off while he does it.” —Gabrielle Bouliane
“Buddy Wakefield is a honey badger. Lions will go completely out of their way to avoid a honey badger.” —Don Beck, Theory of Spiral Dynamics
“I think he’s proof that there is a God.” —Graham Moore, Academy Award-winning writer of The Imitation Game
In her book, Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, New York Times best-selling author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz named Wakefield “the modern poetry slam role model.” She wrote, “…[Wakefield] sold everything he owned and toured the country, living out of his car when he wasn’t crashing on couches. He was not the first slam poet to do this and certainly not the last, but he was definitely the most high-profile, and he really set the stage for what I like to call the ‘Troubadour Movement’ in slam, the whole desire simply to tour, to reach out and be with your community.”
