David Budbill To Give Reading

In Tunbridge On Jan. 11

Poet, playwright and author David Budbill will give a reading, "New Poems and Scenes from a New Play: ‘Love and Rage, Father and Son’" at the Tunbridge Public Library Thursday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. The Budbill event launches the library’s third season of free Winter Evenings programs. Book signing and refreshments will follow.

Budbill is the author of seven books of poems, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, dozens of essays and book reviews and the libretto for an opera. He is also a performance poet on two CDs.

His 2005 book of poems, "While We’ve Still Got Feet," went into its second printing last February. Garrison Keillor reads frequently from Budbill’s poems on his National Public Radio program "The Writer's Almanac."

Budbill’s honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Play Writing Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for Fiction and the Vermont Arts Council’s Walter Cerf Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.

Budbill tours occasionally with avant-garde bassist and composer William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. In 2003 they released "Songs for a Suffering World: A Prayer for Peace, a Protest Against War."

The play "Judevine," which is based on Budbill’s book "Judevine: The Complete Poems," has been produced in 24 states. Budbill is also the creator and editor of "The Judevine Mountain Emailite: a Cyberzine: an On-Line and On-Going Journal of Politics and Opinion."

For information about Winter Evenings call 889-9404.

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