On Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 2:45–4 PM, the Local Buzz Reading Series welcomes novelist Lewis Robinson and poet Kristen Case to the Yarmouth History Center, 118 East Elm Street, Yarmouth. The monthly Local Buzz events are co-hosted by poets Linda Aldrich and Marcia F. Brown and feature area writers of poetry and prose reading from their work.
Kristen Case is the author of three poetry collections: Little Arias was published by New Issues Press; Principles of Economics, published by Switchback Books and winner of the 2018 Gatewood Prize; and most recently, Daphne, which will be published in June by Tupelo Press. She has published essays on Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William and Henry James, and is the author of American Poetry and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe. Her book Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar: Charts and Observations of Natural Phenomena, is forthcoming in November from Milkweed Editions. She is Scholarship Research and Grants Manager at the Mitchell Institute, Maine’s premier scholarship organization.
Lewis Robinson is the author of two novels: The Islanders published in 2024 by Yarmouth’s Islandport Press, and Water Dogs; as well as his critically acclaimed short story collection Officer Friendly — all of which share a Maine setting. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and an NEA grant. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Baffler, The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review and on NPR’s program Selected Shorts. He is an Associate Professor of fiction writing at the University of Maine Farmington and lives in Portland, Maine.
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available on site and across East Elm Street at Royal River Park.
