Bud Smith

May 23, 2024 | thepointmag.com | Bud Smith

Not all the time, but sometimes, early in the morning, dawn just breaking, my car goes bling-blong and the passenger airbag indicator glows on the dashboard. This often happens on my way to work, as I ease my car onto the turnpike, passing the Statue of Liberty. The car thinks my lunch bag is a small child, but it’s not that, it’s just some canned tuna, a book I’m reading, some baked chicken, my tape measure. I don’t have any children.

Sep 5, 2023 | southwestreview.com | Bud Smith

We met in the batting cages of the dilapidated roadside amusement park off Blackthorn Highway. A foggy afternoon I’ll never forget. The place empty, just the way I like. I had an increasing problem being out in public. Easy swings I took, drove line drives where I wanted, felt all right on two anxiety meds. Muttering my mantra. Wraparound sunglasses. Pink noise in my headphones.

Jul 27, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Percival L. Everett |Katya Apekina |Mary Miller |Bud Smith

Reading Lists Drew Buxton, author of "So Much Heart," recommends buddy stories During a workshop for one of the stories in my new collection, So Much Heart, my professor said, “And now, from Drew, we have another wacky couple adventure.” I laughed, but on the inside, I suddenly felt self-conscious, thinking my stories were too similar to each other. He was right. There are a lot of duos in the book—a Tulsa couple caught in the crosshairs of the ghost of a killer whale, siblings trying to...

Jul 6, 2023 | southwestreview.com | Bud Smith |Sarah Booker

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Mar 1, 2023 | thebaffler.com | Ian Dreiblatt |Bud Smith

ok so let there be a pedal point, in thought a sustained tone that other thoughts can come and gogutbucket back to thread and thread to fiberi tell Lewis “well i also want something other than time” & then wonder,did i write a poem by doing it?