David Budbill

Who is David Budbill?

David Wolf Budbill is an American poet, and playwright.

He is the author of eight books of poems, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, and dozens of essays, introductions, speeches, and book reviews.

His three most recent books of poems are Happy Life, While We’ve Still Got Feet and Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse.

His collection of narrative poems, Judevine, was republished in an expanded edition by Chelsea Green Publishing Company in 1999.

Garrison Keillor reads frequently from David's poems on The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio.

His play Judevine, a stage version of his narrative poems, has now had 65 productions in 22 states since the early 1980s. Among Budbill's other plays are Little Acts of Kindness, Thingy World!, Two for Christmas and his newest, first produced in 2010, A Song for My Father.

Zen Mountains/Zen Streets and Songs for a Suffering World, both, audio CDs of his poetry, with the music of jazz bassist and composer William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake were released on the Boxholder Records label in 1999 and 2003.