FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program will host poet John Poch as its next writer in the UMF 2013-14 Visiting Writers Series. Poch will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 10, in Thomas Auditorium, UMF Preble/Ricker Hall. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.

Poch’s writings include poetry collections: “Dolls” (2009); “Two Men Fighting with a Knife” (2008), which won the Donald Justice Award; and “Poems” (2004), a finalist for the PEN/Osterweil Prize. In addition, he worked with Chad Davidson on “The Essential Hockey Haiku” (2006), a poetry/fiction collaboration; and his “Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle,” a limited edition letterpress/art book, was published in 2007.