On Saturday, March 7, 2026 from 2:45–4:00 pm, the Local Buzz Reading Series welcomes poet Sidney Wade and fiction writer Anne Elliott 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.
Sidney Wade is the author of eight volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is Deep Gossip: New and Selected Poems. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Florida, where she taught poetry and translation for 21 years. She served as President and Board Member of AWP (Associated Writing Programs) for five years and has been a long-term member and supporter of the American Literary Translators Association. She resides in Rangeley, Maine, where she enjoys birding and singing with the Rangeley Community Choir.
Anne Elliott’s short fiction can be found in Story, A Public Space, Crab Orchard Review, Ploughshares Solos, Witness, Hobart, Bellevue Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and in her collection, The Artstars. Honors include the Blue Light Books Prize, the Story Foundation Prize, and fellowships from The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Table 4 Writer’s Foundation, and Vermont Studio Center. Her essays on the craft of fiction have been featured in TriQuarterly, CRAFT Literary, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Elliott holds an MFA in visual art from UC San Diego, and an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College. She teaches fiction writing online for A Public Space and Harvard Extension School.
The Local Buzz Reading Series is free and open to all. Parking is available on site and across East Elm Street at Royal River Park.
