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KINGFIELD — Rolling Fatties’ “Word Buzz” series wraps up for the winter season Thursday, April 11, witha poetry month celebration featuring poets Hannah Calkin, Audrey Gidman, Zack Lavoie and Zoe Stonetree.
Word Buzz is an informal once-monthly chat with people in the word biz. Rolling Fatties donates 10 percent of sales during the event to Webster Library. The event takes place from 6 to 8 p.m.
Calkin was born and raised in South Portland. She recently graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington with a BFA in creative writing and was awarded the 2018 Creative Writing Award for excellence by the faculty. Her work can be found in the Sandy River Review, The River, Barren Magazine, Rhythm & Bones, Persephone’s Daughters, and forthcoming in Riggwelter Press. Her first book of poetry, “Pomegranate Odyssey,” will be available from Unsolicited Press in August. She works as a reading tutor and hopes to attend an MFA program in the near future.
Gidman is a local poet and maker residing in the western foothills of Maine. She earned a BFA from the University of Maine at Farmington. Her work can be found in Slippery Elm, Confrontation, The Rush and elsewhere. She is the 2018 recipient of the Elyse Wolf Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, “body psalms,” is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press.
Lavoie graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington and is the author of the chapbook “UPHEAVALS” (Pond Bench Press). He was awarded the 2017 Alice James Books Director’s Chair Fellowship in Farmington, and is the winner of the Franklin and Somerset County Poetry Competition. He is the founder of Northland Creative where he works as a copy editor. He also is a poetry editor for Flypaper Magazine out of Columbus, Ohio. His work can be found or is forthcoming in many journals, both in print and online. Find him at zackarylavoie.com or on Twitter @zclavoie.
Stonetree is a student in UMF’s creative writing program as well as Director’s Chair Fellow at Alice James Books. She is a lifelong Mainer, save for recent stints in Massachusetts and Alaska.
