On Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 2:45–4 PM, the Local Buzz Reading Series welcomes author Brock Clarke and poet Marita O’Neill 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.
Marita O’Neill has been an English teacher at Yarmouth High School for 15 years, teaching literature and poetry at all grade levels. She received her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Marita’s poems have been published in the Maine Sunday Telegram’s “Deep Water” series, The Cafe Review, Smoky Blue, Deluge Press, and LEON Literary Review, among others. She has a forthcoming book, Wild Nest, No Prison, coming out with Deerbrook Editions in the spring of 2025. Marita lives in Portland with her dog, Sweetpea.
Brock Clarke’s books include the novels Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?, The Happiest People in the World, and An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England; the short story collection The Price of the Haircut; and, most recently, the essay collection I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction. His tenth book—the short story collection Special Election—will be published in September 2025. He lives in Portland, Maine, and is the A. LeRoy Greason Professor of English and Creative Writing at Bowdoin College.
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available on site and across East Elm Street at Royal River Park.
