FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Visiting Writers Series will kick off the spring semester with a reading by award-winning poet Chad Davidson.

This free and public event will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. It will be followed by a signing.

Davidson is the author of “Consolation Miracle” and “The Last Predicta” and editor, with John Poch, of “Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection.” His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Doubletake, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah and Virginia Quarterly Review.

Davidson teaches literature and creative writing at the University of West Georgia near Atlanta.