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Two time individual World Poetry Slam champion Buddy Wakefield will be giving a free performance on Thursday, February 10th starting at 7pm in the Hitchcock Auditorium at COCC. 

Last fall Wakefield, with his athletic frame and troubling, expressive eyes, ushered forth both tears and a standing ovation as part of the Revival tour that stopped over in downtown Bend. Wakefield is propulsive, full of crackling energy mixed with a shocking sweetness that left several audience members weeping.

Wakefield is the kind of performer that makes you simultaneously contemplate the harsher realities of life while laughing, wanting to buy him a beer afterwards just to say thanks for taking you on a wild ride. Buddy is jovial, his poetic gesticulations are graceful, almost elegant, and those crazy eyes of his mesmerize.

This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2011.

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Buddy Wakefield is Back in Bend

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 9, 2011

<h1>Buddy Wakefield is Back in Bend</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 9, 2011</p> <p><span> </span>Two time individual World Poetry Slam champion <a href="http://buddywakefield.com/" target="_blank">Buddy Wakefield</a> will be giving a free performance on Thursday, February 10th starting at 7pm in the Hitchcock Auditorium at COCC.&nbsp;</p> <p>Last fall Wakefield, with his athletic frame and troubling, expressive eyes, ushere<span>d forth both tears and a standing ovation as part of the Revival tour that stopped over in downtown Bend. Wakefield is propulsive, full of crackling energy mixed with a shocking sweetness that left several audience members weeping. </span></p> <p><span>Wakefield is the kind of performer that makes you simultaneously contemplate the harsher realities of life while laughing, wanting to buy him a beer afterwards just to say thanks for taking you on a wild ride. Buddy is jovial, his poetic gesticulations are graceful, almost elegant, and those crazy eyes of his mesmerize.</span></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/buddy-wakefield-is-back-in-bend-2137140/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=20425&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/buddy-wakefield-is-back-in-bend-2137140/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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