June 25, 2024 (Switzer, Finn & Carter-Jones)

 Hemingway's Poetry Series

June 25, 2024

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Back Row: Kristofer Collins

Front Row (L-R): Sheila Carter-Jones, Kevin Finn, Silas Maxwell Switzer & Joan Bauer

Kristofer Collins is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Low Ghost Press founded in 2008 and the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is also the co-curator of the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book, Roundabout Trace, was published in 2022 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021), and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). Recent work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream and Chiron Review. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. 

 

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Silas Maxwell Switzer is a musician, poet, and history student who’s dedicated to exploring and preserving the local queer history in Pittsburgh, PA, his lifelong home. In his effort to emulate the noble possum, Silas has recently taken to allowing himself to be coaxed out of his hiding spots by pieces of interesting trash, an interest which he calls “digital archiving.” You can find him on most websites, including Patreon and Bandcamp, as silasmaxwellswitzer. His chapbook, Nine Parts Water, One Part Bleach, was published by Main Street Rag in 2023.

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Kevin Finn is a poet, musician, visual artist and martial artist from Pittsburgh, PA. His poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, and his latest collection is entitled, Consequence of Dream (Six Gallery Press, 2022).

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Sheila Carter-Jones is the author of Three Birds Deep (selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Book Award) and the chapbook Blackberry Cobbler Song. Her chapbook Crooked Star Dream Book was named Honorable Mention for the New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Contest. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and a Walter Dakin Fellow of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her newest poetry collection, Every Hard Sweetness, was published by BOA Editions in April 2024.

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June 11, 2024 (Bacharach, Brooks, Flick, Wentworth & Wielkopolan)

 

Hemingway's Poetry Series

June 11, 2024

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Back Row (L-R): Sherrie Flick, Kristofer Collins & Don Wentworth

Front Row (L-R): Doralee Brooks, Stefanie Wielkopolan, Valerie Bacharach & Joan Bauer

Kristofer Collins is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Low Ghost Press founded in 2008 and the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is also the co-curator of the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book, Roundabout Trace, was published in 2022 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021), and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). Recent work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream and Chiron Review. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. 

 

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Valerie Bacharach’s book, Last Glimpse, will be published by Broadstone Books and her chapbook After/Life will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. Her poem, “Birthday Portrait,Son,” published by the Ilanot Review, was selected for inclusion in 2023 Best Small Fictions. Her poem, “Shavli,” has been nominated for Best of the Net 2023 and a Pushcart Prize by Minyan Magazine. Her poem, “Deadbolt,” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by RockPaperPoem.

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Doralee Brooks is a facilitator for the Madwoman in the Attic poetry workshops at Carlow University and professor emerita of the Community College of Allegheny County in Developmental Studies. She is a fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project (95) and
Cave Canem (97 and 99). Doralee holds an MEd from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Carlow University. Her poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies including Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and
Uppagus. Doralee’s chapbook, When I Hold You Up to the Light, won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest published by Main Street Rag. She is City of Asylum’s Poet Laureate of Allegheny County 2022-2024.

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Sherrie Flick is the author of a novel and two short story collections. Most recently: Thank Your Lucky Stars (Autumn House Press). She served as co-editor for the 2023 Norton Anthology Flash Fiction America and series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018. She is
the recipient of a Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh Fellowship from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation. Recent work appears in Puerto del Sol, Western Humanities Review, and New England Review. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in September of 2024. 

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Don Wentworth is a Pittsburgh-based poet whose work reflects his interest in the revelatory nature of brief, haiku-like moments in everyday life. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Gargoyle, frogpond, Chiron Review, and Rolling Stone, as well as a number of anthologies. He is the author of three collections of brief work: Past All Traps (2011), Yield to the Willow (2014) and With a Deepening Presence (2016), published by Six Gallery, and is working on a
forthcoming collection of ghazals and a Selected and New Poems.

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Stefanie Wielkopolan is a poet and educator with deep Midwestern roots. She is in love with Western Pennsylvania and calls Pittsburgh home. Her poetry collection, Home is a Sweater, was published in 2023 by Finishing Line Pres, and her first book of poems, Border Theory, was published in 2011 by Black Coffee Press. She currently teaches writing to middle school students and works as an administrator for a college writing center. When she isn’t working,
she can be found writing, napping, reading, anxiously trying to figure out the world, or watching reruns of “Newhart.”

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