Tumbling Toward the End

* Longtime favorite of Garrison Keillor, and appears frequently on The Writer’s Almanac * Has an active electronic presence * Recorded CDs of his poetry with jazz bassist and composer William Parker * Budbill is also a successful playwright * Lived and worked in northern Vermont for 40 years * Most of his poems are based on that landscape and a mythologized version of the community of Judevine.
* Is a community activist and political essayist.

* Has a Master’s in Divinity from Columbia University and has spent a lifetime investigating Zen philosophy through his poetry.
* Has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim foundation and the NEA.