On Saturday, March 1, 2025 from 2:45–4 PM, the Local Buzz Reading Series, formerly based in Cape Elizabeth, returns in a new venue at 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. The series is pleased to welcome poet Annaliese Jakimides and writer Taryn Bowe for its 2025 season launch.
Annaliese Jakimides has lived in large cities and in the woods of northern Maine pumping water by hand and growing all her family’s food. Exploring the worlds of the real and the imaginary, her poetry and prose appear in many anthologies, magazines, and journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Solstice Literary, and Consequence. Most recently, her poetry has been included in two gallery exhibitions, Sol Invictus marking the winter solstice, and Orbits, addressing repurposed materials and sustainability. Cited in national competitions by poets laureate, National Book Award winners, and other notable writers, her work has also been broadcast on NPR. She’s the cowriter of the 2024 musical Love Affair. A member of MWPA’s community advisory board and cofounder of the Belfast Poetry Festival, she’s the recipient of the 2024 Golden Typewriter Award, given in recognition of contributions to, and support of, the Maine literary community. She lives in an apartment overlooking the Bangor Public Library and writes in a closet. annaliesejakimides.com
Taryn Bowe serves as the Associate Director at the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Her short stories and essays have appeared in journals such as The Sewanee Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Joyland, Epoch, and Indiana Review. Her work has been heard on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and anthologized in Best American Short Stories. Taryn has taught writing workshops to women at Maine’s Correctional Center, adolescents who have survived suicide loss, and Portland-area high school students. Before joining MWPA, Bowe worked as a Health Policy Research Associate at the Muskie School of Public Service. She received her AB in Neuroscience and Religion from Bowdoin College and has a MFA in Creative Writing from University of Southern Maine. She lives in Brunswick with her husband and daughter.
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available on site and across East Elm Street at Royal River Park.
