On Saturday, May 2, 2026 from 2:45–4:00 pm, the Local Buzz Reading Series welcomes poet Jenny Doughty to launch her new book, As for the Rose, and fiction writer Dave Patterson reading from his latest short story collection, Euphoria, 10 Maine Stories 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.
Jenny Doughty is originally British but has lived in Maine since 2002. She is a former English teacher and was Education Adviser to Penguin Books in the UK in the 90s. She edited an anthology of pre-20th century poetry for Penguin UK and published two children’s non-fiction books there under the name Jenny Green. Her short stories and articles have been published in several UK magazines, in one of which she also did a stint as an agony aunt (Brit-speak for a person like Dear Abby who offers answers to readers’ problems). In the US, her poems have been published in various reviews and anthologies. Her first poetry collection, Sending Bette Davis to the Plumber, was published by Moon Pie Press in 2017, and her current collection, As For The Rose, is published by Main Street Rag. She is currently President of the Maine Poets Society.
Dave Patterson is a fiction writer, musician, and high school English teacher. He holds an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. A winner of the Bread Loaf Freeman Fiction Award and a Maine Literary Award for Short Fiction, his stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in Salon, Slice Magazine, Hot Metal Bridge, Maine Magazine, The Masters Review, among others. He is the author of the novel, Soon the Light Will be Perfect, and the story collection, Euphoria: 10 Maine Stories. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife and two children.
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.
