Kenny, Bud

Bud Kenny is a performance poet who loves to walk. A onetime disc jockey, he studied drama, broadcasting, and creative writing at university during the 1970s. Over the course of the next three-and-a-half years, he set off on an eight-thousand-mile trek from Pennsylvania, to the coast of Oregon, then down to San Francisco, and finally back east to Arkansas with only his dog and a pack pony.

Kenny went on to own two businesses-including the Poet's Loft, which featured such renowned writers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko-and made a name for himself on the nation...