Dave Buckhout

A writer of fiction, creative + narrative nonfiction, historical studies, and verse, Dave's work has appeared in Baseball Ink, The Chaffey Review, Raven's Perch, The Write Launch, and in online history journals: The Almanack, whitehousehistory, and Tropics of Meta. His full-length novel—The Regular (Atmosphere Press)—was published in the Spring of 2021. Influences include: James Agee, Thomas Wolfe, C. Vann Woodward, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Jamison, Cheryl Strayed, Billy Collins, Faulkner, Thoreau, Kerouac. Dave lives on the hip east-side of Atlanta with his beautiful wife, dogs, cats, guitars, and 1000s of well-worn books. Tune in at davebuckhout.com.

“For the Win,” “Unobstructed View” and “Asking the Time”

There is a photograph of the East Village that hangs on his wall . . .

Taken December 14, 1996, the subject matter: urban, brownstones unadorned, fire escapes to one side, cars parked bumper-to-bumper and of makes, models, styles that carbon-date the instant.
  • Issue 62, June 2022
  • Poetry
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Here Comes a Regular

HE SHIFTS IN HIS seat atop barstool, a lean-to-sinewy build weighed down by an epic hangover. He locks a gaze on his nemesis and stews. A nonchalant simmer boils up into something resembling a care, in the presence of one who has done him wrong.
“Damn you,” he mutters, upgrading his stare to a glare in glowering at a fifth of bourbon one splash above empty.
  • Issue 31, November 2019
  • Novel Excerpts
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