Buddy Wakefield
At The Conway Center February, 28th
Readers
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Buddy Wakefield
Nick Narbutas
Nate Olison
Daniel Shapiro
Abby Sheaffer
I really just went to the reading because it fit in with my schedule and I needed one more reading.
The venue wasn’t bad. It was large enough for the crowd but still felt somewhat homie. First, there was a battle between two groups of poets. Nick Narbutas and Nate Olison from Sliver Tounge versus Verbatim’s Daniel Shapiro and Abby Sheaffer in a one on one, two minute throw down. I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed their poems. After them Buddy Wakefield went on. He came out immediately ripping on us, his humor drops your defensives and then five seconds from when you were just laughing he brings you into the real depth of his poems. At more aggressive points in the poems he kind of remind me of the lead singer in the band “Listener “ with his speech and dialect being similar as well has his rhythm and tempo to his words. I enjoyed all the readers, especially Buddy. I went ahead and picked up one of his books “Live For A Living,” which you can find on his website http://buddywakefield.com/.
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