May 27, 2025 (Buccilli, Douglass, Simon, Miller & Walker)

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Back Row: Marguerite Miller, Anastasia Walker & Kristofer Collins

Front Row (L-R): Ed Simon, Joan Bauer, Daniela Buccilli, & M. Scott Douglass

 

Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine as well as co-curator of Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife and two children. His latest poetry collection, "The Vesper Room" is forthcoming from Luchador Press.

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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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Daniela Buccilli's poetry chapbook is What It Takes to Carry (Main Street). She has writing degrees from Carlow University and University of Pittsburgh. She teaches high school, has co-edited a poetry anthology, serves as her union's secretary, and has been published in anthologies, journals, and Tiny Day. She workshops with Madwomen in the Attic. 

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M. Scott Douglass is the Publisher/Managing Editor at Main Street Rag Publishing Company. He grew up in Pittsburgh, lived in North Carolina for over thirty years, and now calls Edinboro, PA home. He’s a North Carolina ASC Grant recipient and a Pushcart Prize nominee. His poetry books include Auditioning for Heaven, Balancing on Two Wheels, Steel Womb Revisited, Hard to Love, Just Passing Through, and most recently, Living in a Red State Blues. His graphic design work has earned two PICA Awards and an Eric Hoffer Award nomination. 8000 Mile Roll A Motorcycle Memoir is his first book of prose.

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Ed Simon is Public Humanities Special Faculty in English at Carnegie Mellon, editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books and a staff writer for LitHub. A contributor at several dozen sites, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, and The Washington Post, he is also the author or editor of nineteen books, including Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost and An Alternative History of Pittsburgh. In July of 2024, Melville House Publishing released his Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, the first comprehensive, popular account of that subject.

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Marguerite Miller is an English and Journalism teacher in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the Co-founder and Editor of Lefty Blondie Press based in Pittsburgh and a member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops through Carlow University. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Editing and Publishing from Chatham University where her poetry thesis was a finalist for Best Thesis in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in Mangrove, The Minor Bird, IDK Magazine, The Labletter Monthly Notes, Perversion Magazine, and elsewhere.  

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Maine native Anastasia Walker (she/her/hers) is a queer poet, essayist, and scholar. Her first book of poetry, The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is, was published in 2022. Her essays have appeared in several journals, and she's currently shopping an essay collection subtitled “A Memoir in Shards.” She's on the board of Pittsburgh’s PFLAG chapter, volunteers for the Transgender Law Center’s prison mail program, and is a lover of long walks and swimming in the ocean. She's old school and has a snazzy blog (also called "The Girl Who Wasn't and Is") if anyone is interested in keeping up with her publications, her kitchen adventures, updates on her plants, and other matters of world-historical significance.

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May 13, 2025 (Caballero, Dignam, McCafferty, Priest & Rudolph)

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Back Row: Kristofer Collins, Jane McCafferty & Cedric Rudolph

Front Row (L-R): Mark Dignam, M. Soledad Caballero, Joy Priest, & Joan Bauer

 

Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine as well as co-curator of Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife and two children. His latest poetry collection, "The Vesper Room" is forthcoming from Luchador Press.

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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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M. Soledad Caballero is a Professor of English and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College. She is a Macondo and CantoMundo fellow. Her collection, I Was a Bell (2021; Red Hen Press) was a 2022 International Latino Book Award winner. Her second collection, Flight Plan, is scheduled for publication with Red Hen Press in September 2025. She’s an avid tv watcher and a terrible birder. Learn more about her work at msoledadcaballero.com

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Mark Dignam is originally from Dublin in Ireland and this year celebrates his 25^th year living in Pittsburgh. He is critically and popularly well respected for his live performances, poetic turn of phrase as a Singer/Songwriter and has opened for, or toured with many named musical artists. Alongside his musical performances in 2025, Mark has begun to put down the guitar and have his words stand on their own. His work, with or without a guitar revolves around the themes of, a love of nature, family dynamics and how we can live better, emotionally healthier lives in a challenging world.

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Jane McCafferty is author of two story collections and two novels. Her work has received an NEA, two Pushcarts, several Pushcart special mentions, the Drue Heinz prize, The Great Lakes Writers Award, and the Talking Writing award for non-fiction. More recent work has appeared in The Sun, The Common, Iowa Review, and the journal formerly known as Crazy Horse. Her first collection of poems, The Sea Lion Who Saved the Boy Who Jumped from the Golden Gate was published by Saddle Road Press in fall of 2024. She’s always working on stories and hoping for poems and attempting to fix the draft of a novel. She teaches writing at Carnegie Mellon and for Madwomen in the Attic.

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Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020) and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review. Her poems, essays, and criticism have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Sewanee Review, among others. She teaches on faculty in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of Pittsburgh. 

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Cedric Rudolph is a Black, gay writer living in Pittsburgh, PA. He works as a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Pittsburgh’s Writing Department. He has also taught for the Institute for Anti-Racist Education and led workshops in Allegheny County Jail. His publications include The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook and The Coal Hill Review. Eavesdrop Magazine awarded him third place in their Queer Joy Contest. Most recently, Bellevue Literary Review awarded him an honorable mention in their 2025 BLR Literary Prizes.

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2025 Schedule for Hemingway's Poetry Series

 Hemingway's Poetry Series

2025 Schedule

The Hemingway's Summer Poetry series, founded by poet Jimmy Cvetic, celebrates its 51st Anniversary season for eight evenings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of May, June, July and August: May 13, May 27, June 10, June 24, July 8, July 22, August 12 and August 26 - at 7 p.m. (And we do make every effort to start on time.)

This year, again, the series will be hosted by

Hop Farm Brewing Co. at 5601 Butler Street in Lawrenceville 

The series was generously hosted by White Whale Bookstore in recent years, but the new venue at Hop Farm Brewing allows us to expand programming, preserve the open mic, and provide a setting with outstanding brews, delicious food and a larger, more airy, space. 

Thanks to Matt Gouwens, founder of Hop Farm Brewing Company, for continuing to provide the series with a home. For more details, go to http://www.hopfarmbrewingco.com 

Week One:  Tuesday May 13

M. Soledad Caballero, Mark Dignam, Jane McCafferty, Joy Priest & Cedric Rudolph

Week Two: Tuesday May 27

Daniela Buccilli, M. Scott Douglass, Marguerite Miller, Ed Simon & Anastasia Walker

Week Three: Tuesday June 10

Laurie Anderson, Joy Katz, Jill Khoury, Judith Sanders & Justin Vicari

Week Four:  Tuesday June 24

Sharon Dilworth, Yvonne McBride, Ellen McGrath Smith, Dave Housley & Marcel Lamont Walker

Week Five: Tuesday July 8

Halsey Hyer, Gail Langstroth, Marc Nieson, Steffan Triplet & Anne Trubek

Week Six: Tuesday July 22

Kelley Beeson, Bahar Davoudi, Lou Ickes, Alyssa Sineni & Bob Walicki

Week Seven: Tuesday August 12

Jay Carson, Veronica Corpuz, Elisabeth Crago, Carl Marcum & Virginia Montanez

Week Eight:  Tuesday August 26

Sean Enright, Celeste Gainey, Rich Gegick, Gwendolyn Mitchell & Jesse Welch 

 

 

 

August 27, 2024 (Daniels, Jakiela, Newman, Ramírez & Wurster)

Hemingway's Poetry Series

August 27, 2024

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Back Row: Lori Jakiela, Dave Newman & Jim Daniels

Front Row (L-R): Jen Ashburn, Joan Bauer, Michael Wurster & Adriana Ramírez

Jen Ashburn is a poet and nonfiction writer. She’s the author of The Light on the Wall and has work published in numerous venues, including The Fiddlehead, The Writer’s Almanac, and Pedestal Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lori White Non-Fiction Fellowship and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. Her current projects include a poetry manuscript, "Cracked Paraffin," and a memoir, "Borax, Cornmeal and Cherry Blossoms." She holds an MFA from Chatham University and lives in Edgewood.

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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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Jim Daniels’ latest book, The Luck of the Fall, fiction, was published by Michigan State University Press in July 2023. Recent poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn, Wolfson Press, Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press, and Comment Card, Carnegie Mellon University Press. His first book of nonfiction, The Abridged Book of Water, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.

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Lori Jakiela is the author of seven books, most recently They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So (Atticus Books).  Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and more. She lives in Trafford with her husband Dave Newman, their two children, and a poodle named Dinkus. Her author website is http://lorijakiela.net.  

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Dave Newman is the author of seven books, including The Same Dead Songs: a memoir of working-class addictions (J.New Books, 2023). He lives in Trafford, PA, the last town in the Electric Valley, with his wife, the writer Lori Jakiela, and their two children. For the last decade he worked in medical research. He currently teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg.

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Adriana E. Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian poet, critic, and writer. In 2015, she won the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer’s Prize for Dead Boys (Little A, 2016) and now works as a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is the recipient of the Pittsburgh Foundation’s 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award. Her work can be found in the Atlantic, Boston Globe, LA Times, People Magazine, ESPN’s The Undefeated, Pen America and Literary Hub. Once a nationally ranked slam poet, she founded the infamous Nasty Slam in Pittsburgh and continues to perform around the country.  Her long-awaited book, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner in March 2025.

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Michael Wurster has lived in Pittsburgh since 1964 and is a founding member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. For 17 years, 1993-2010, he taught at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts School. In 2009, his book, The British Detective, was published by Main Street Rag. His two previous poetry collections are The Cruelty of the Desert (Cottage Wordsmiths, 1989) and The Snake Charmer's Daughter (ELEMENOPE, 2000). He is co-editor, with Judith R. Robinson, of the anthology, Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant Press, 2008), and The Brentwood Anthology (Lummox Press, 2014). In 1996, Wurster was an inaugural recipient of a Pittsburgh Magazine Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award for his contributions to poetry and the community. His most recent full-length book of poems, Even Then, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2019.

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