Buddy Wakefield |

Years from now, the enlightened civilization ahead of us will stare bewildered at our lethal masculinity and say, But each one, when he was running, tied bows to the top of his feet.
—Buddy Wakefield, A Choir of Honest Killers

Your body remembers

Your body remembers the soundtrack to your past life.
It remembers the next life coming.
—Buddy Wakefield, A Choir of Honest Killers

A Good Chance

There’s a good chance I’m a bad person
trying to do something right.
—Buddy Wakefield, A Choir of Honest Killers

Vulnerability

Vulnerability is what made every movie, sang every song, and wrote every poem that ever plugged a life back into itself.
—Buddy Wakefield, A Choir of Honest Killers

Buddy Wakefield's first book of new work in eight years

A Choir of Honest Killers, Buddy Wakefield’s newest book of prose and poetry, reads like an episodic novel exploring his creative climb from the gritty underbelly of anger and shame, into the dissolution of tragedy addiction and the unmistakable clearing ahead.

In this staggeringly honest account of life alone on the road, Buddy carefully confronts a debilitating overcompensation of masculinity, growing up gay in the south, the detriments of public shame, a damaging fear of intimacy, and the prolonged agony of his failing relationship. All the while, the story is rocketing toward light with refreshing humor and keen insight that Wakefield credits to meditation, frequent specific serendipity, and one sudden moment of bliss that kept growing.

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TOUR

A Choir of Honest Killers World Tour: October 2019- November 2020

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APRIL 2020

April 1, 2020 Buddy in the Study: This Will Not Be Light Reading, 6pm PST TICKETS

April 2, 2020 This Shit Is Crazy: Live From Buddy’s Bathroom, Noon PST TICKETS

April 2, 2020 Write On, Part 1of 4 online workshops for Stichting Watershed, Netherlands, 10-11am PST TICKETS

April 5, 2020 Buddy Mortified: A Very Embarrassing Concert,1pm PST Free with TEXT SUBSCRIPTION

April 9, 2020 Write On, Part 2 of 4 online workshops for Stichting Watershed, Netherlands, 11am-1pm PST

April 9, 2020 The Get Down NYC, 4:30pm PST details TBA

April 14, 2020 The Poetry Revival Reunion with Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Mike McGee, and Buddy Wakefield,
6pm PST, $15 for just the April 14th concert, or $150 for the concert and month of workshops Zoom link sends hour before show.

April 16, 2020 Write On, Part 3 of 4 online workshops for Stichting Watershed, Netherlands, 11am-1pm PST

April 21, 2020 The Poetry Revival Reunion with Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Mike McGee, and Buddy Wakefield
begins month-long series of workshops tonight with Buddy Wakefield, 6pm PST TICKETS

April 23, 2020 Write On, Part 4 of 4 online workshops for Stichting Watershed, Netherlands, 11am-1pm PST

April 28, 2020 The Poetry Revival Reunion with Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Mike McGee, and Buddy Wakefield
continues month-long series of workshops, tonight with Anis Mojgani, 6pm PST TICKETS

MAY 2020

May 5, 2020 The Poetry Revival Reunion with Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Mike McGee, and Buddy Wakefield
continues month-long series of workshops, tonight with Mike McGee, 6pm PST TICKETS

May 12, 2020 The Poetry Revival Reunion with Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Mike McGee, and Buddy Wakefield
continues month-long series of workshops, tonight with Derrick Brown, 6pm PST TICKETS

May 18, 2020 Buddy Wakefield’s Awful Good Writers online course begins (week 1 of 2), 11:30am PST, REGISTER HERE

May 25, 2020 Buddy Wakefield’s Awful Good Writers online course (week 2 of 2), 11:30am PST, REGISTER HERE