FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington is hosting American poet, chef and translator Christopher Bakken as the next reader in its notable Visiting Writers Series.

Sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, the reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center.

The reading is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a meet and greet with the author.

Bakken is the author of the culinary memoir, “Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table,” as well as three books of poetry, most recently “Eternity & Oranges.” He also co-translated “The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios.”

Bakken has served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bucharest and he is Frederick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College. Each summer, he serves as director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos.

Christopher Bakken