buddy Wakefield February 28

the poet i chose to go see was buddy Wakefield and his performance was held at the 1104 s Wabash building. i chose to go to this performance because a friend of mine had told me that have heard of him before and apparently he was really good .

i went to there not knowing exactly what to expect because i have never attended a poetry reading before but the flyer that was posted online for the event said that Buddy Wakefield is one of the biggest names in performance poetry, so i expected a performance at the very least.

i was completely blown away by the performance as a whole because they also had Columbia students as well, and i thought there poems were excellent. however, buddy was beyond word for me because it seemed like he was just rambling at first throwing out random ideas and then he would just lead it into a poem like he just came across it by accident, but he put some feeling and emotion behind each word. it also helped that he was really funny as well because it made seem he was a stand up comedian/ poet.