ERIK STUMPFEL

Erik Stumpfel is 'from away'.  Erik emigrated to Maine from Virginia in 1988, following military service with the U.S. Army.  He and his wife Beth have owned and reside in the original Leland-Burgess homestead farm house in pretty east Sangerville Maine since 1995.  Portions of the residence date from the 1850s.  Erik's poems chronicle the adjustment process undergone by those who come to Maine from other areas of the United States, and touch on central themes of rural life in southern Piscataquis County, Maine.