May 14, 2024 (Beatty, Gwin, Heinlen, Pritts & Shaw)

 

Hemingway's Poetry Series

May 14, 2024

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Back Row (L-R): Ben Gwin, Fred Shaw & Kristofer Collins

Front Row (L-R): Jan Beatty, Hallie Pritts, Amy Lee Heinlen & 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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Jan Beatty’s eighth book, Dragstripping, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2024. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award. Recent books include The Body Wars and a chapbook, Skydog (Lefty Blondie Press, 2022). Other work includes Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh, 2018 Paterson Prize) named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019. Beatty worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. She is Professor Emerita at Carlow University, where she directed creative writing, the Madwomen in the Attic workshops, and the MFA program. 

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Ben Gwin is the author of the novel, Clean Time (Burrow Press), and the book, Team Building: A Memoir about Family and the Fight for Workers’ Rights (Belt). He was also the editor of the anthology, The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt). Ben’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Normal School, Lit Hub, and others. He lives in Pittsburgh with his child.

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Amy Lee Heinlen is a poet and publisher based in Western Pennsylvania. She’s the author of the chapbook, All Else Falls to Shadow (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems are published in a variety of journals, including Literary Mama, poets.org, Rogue Agent, Stirring: A Literary Collective, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Heinlen is co-founder and editor of Lefty Blondie Press, an independent publisher promoting the work of self-identifying women and non-binary poets. Heinlen is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University and College prize and Best Thesis in Poetry prize from Chatham University. 

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Hallie Pritts is a writer from western Pennsylvania. Her fiction is equal parts romp and social commentary: eccentric characters—including UFO-believers and the ghost of a 1970s rock star—navigate class struggles, a rapidly changing ecology, an ever-uncertain future, and the defining question of what it means to be free. Pritts’ literary thriller-in-progress is a finalist for the 2023 Claymore Award. Her short work can be found in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Frazzled, The Fourth River, and Off Assignment, among others. She’s a reader for The Barcelona Review.

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Fred Shaw was named Emerging Poet Laureate Finalist for Allegheny County in 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and Carlow University, where he received his MFA. A Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, he curates the “PQ Poem” feature for Pittsburgh Quarterly where he also reviews books. His first collection, Scraping Away, was published by CavanKerry Press. A second collection is forthcoming.

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2024 Schedule for Hemingway's Poetry Series

Hemingway's Poetry Series

2024 Schedule

This summer the Hemingway's Summer Poetry series, founded by poet Jimmy Cvetic, celebrates its 50th Anniversary season and moves to a new venue

Hop Farm Brewing Co. at 5601 Butler Street in Lawrenceville

for eight evenings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of May, June, July and August: May 14, May 28, June 11, June 25, July 9, July 23, August 13 and August 27 at 7 p.m.

The series was generously hosted by White Whale Bookstore in recent years, but the new venue at Hop Farm Brewing will allow us to expand programming, bring back the open mic, and provide a setting with outstanding brews and other beverages, delicious food and a larger space. 

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

Week One:  Tuesday May 14

    Jan Beatty, Ben Gwin, Amy Lee Heinlen, Hallie Pritts & Fred Shaw

 Week Two: Tuesday May 28

    Cameron Barnett, Christina Fisanick, Byron Hoot, Jason Irwin & Shannon Sankey

Week Three: Tuesday June 11

    Valerie Bacharach, Doralee Brooks, Sherrie Flick, Don Wentworth & Stephanie Wielkopolan

Week Four:  Tuesday June 25

    Sheila Carter-Jones, Kevin Finn, Richard Hamilton, James Croal Jackson & Silas Maxwell Switzer

Week Five: Tuesday July 9

    Jen Ashburn, Taylor Grieshober, Sharon Fagan McDermott, Romella Kitchens & Robert Yune

Week Six: Tuesday July 23

    Nikki Allen, Jason Baldinger, John Dorsey, Leslie Anne Mcilroy & Scott Silsbe

Week Seven: Tuesday August 13

    Nancy Krygowski, Mary Soon Lee, Bob Pajich, Bonita Lee Penn & Michael Simms

Week Eight:  Tuesday August 27

      Jim Daniels, Lori Jakiela, Dave Newman, Adriana Ramirez & Michael Wurster

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 8, 2023 (macross, Jakiela, Newman, Sargeson & Rudolph)

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Seated L-R: Cedric Rudolph, Joan Bauer & Kristofer Collins
Standing L-R: miss macross, Dave Newman & Lori Jakiela

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 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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miss macross is a Pittsburgh-based lunar witch who enjoys watching mecha anime and taking naps. Her most recent chapbook, Late Tight in a Night Space, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2022. She is the Publishing Director for Write Pittsburgh and inconsistently blogs at missmacross.com. Find her on Twitter @missmacross.

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Cedric Rudolph is a writer and educator living in Pittsburgh, PA. During his time at Chatham University—where he earned his writing MFA—he taught at Allegheny County Jail. He continues to teach inside and outside of traditional classrooms. From 2021-2023, he served as Diverse Faculty Fellow Instructor at the Community College of Allegheny County. This fall he will teach writing at the University of Pittsburgh. His poems are published in Santa Fe Literary Review, The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook and The Coal Hill Review.

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Kayla Sargeson is the author of the full-length collection First Red (Main Street Rag, 2016) and the chapbooks Head on a Shelf, BLAZE, and Mini Love Gun, all from Main Street Rag. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in 5 AM, Cimarron Review, and South Dakota Review. With Lisa Alexander, she co-curates the Laser Cat reading series. Sargeson lives in Pittsburgh where she teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and Carlow University and served as Interim Director of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops. 

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Lori Jakiela is the author of seven books, most recently a hybrid memoir, They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So (Atticus Books, Spring 2023), and a poetry collection, How Do You Like It Now Gentlemen? (2021, Brickhouse Books), winner of the 2021 Wicked Woman Poetry Prize. Her book, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth Maybe, received the Saroyan Prize for International Literature from Stanford University. She writes for Pittsburgh Magazine and directs the undergraduate writing program at The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where she is a professor of English.

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Dave Newman is the author of seven books, including The Slaughterhouse Poems, named one of the best books of the year by L Magazine, and The Same Dead Songs: a memoir of working-class addictions (J.New Books / Imperfect Union, 2023). He lives in Trafford, PA, the last town in the Electric Valley.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season (Turning Point), is now available.

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July 25, 2023 (Barnett, Buccilli, Stroud & Williams-Devereux)

 

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Seated L-R: Christine Stroud, Kristofer Collins & Sarah Williams-Devereux
Standing L-R: Daniela Buccilli, Cameron Barnett & Joan Bauer

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 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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Sarah Williams-Devereux is the author of Of a Mother (Finishing Line Press, chapbook, forthcoming, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in multiple venues, including journals [F(r)ictionLog, Snapdragon], anthologies [Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag, 2020), Is It Hot in Here Or Is It Just Me? Women Over Forty Write on Aging (Social Justice Anthologies, 2019)], radio [Prosody, WESA-FM], and public art [Bridging the Gap/Analog Scroll, Westmoreland Museum of American Art]. She teaches poetry for the Madwomen in the Attic workshops at Carlow University. She is an apprentice training instructor for Amherst Writers & Artists writing group leadership and received her MA in teaching writing from Johns Hopkins University.

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Christine Stroud is a poet living in Pittsburgh, PA, and is the editor in chief of Autumn House Press. Her chapbook, The Buried Return, was released by Finishing Line Press in March of 2014, and her second chapbook, Sister Suite, was released from Disorder Press in 2017. Stroud’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hobart, the Ninth Letter online, The Paterson Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Laurel Review, and many others as well as several anthologies.

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Daniela Buccilli’s poetry can be found in Paterson Review, Northern Appalachian Review, Cimarron Review, and Voices in the Attic anthology. Her chapbook is What it Takes to Carry and she has co-edited Show Us Your Papers, a Poetry Anthology. She teaches at a local high school and has earned an MFA in poetry from Carlow University and one in fiction at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves her union as their secretary.

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Cameron Barnett is a Pittsburgh poet, teacher, and the Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. He’s the author of The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water and Murmur, forthcoming from Autumn House Press. His work explores the complexity of relationships, race, and place for Black people in America, more of which can be found at cameronbarnett.net.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season (Turning Point), is now available.

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July 11, 2023 (Alderman, Ussia & Solarczyk)

 

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Seated L-R: Matt Ussia & Bart Solarczyk
Standing L-R: Chandra Alderman, Scott Silsbe & Joan Bauer

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.


Scott Silsbe was born in Detroit. He now lives in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. His poems and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals and have been collected in four books: Unattended Fire, The River Underneath the City, Muskrat Friday Dinner, and Meet Me Where We Survive. He is also an assistant editor at Low Ghost Press.

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Chandra Alderman lives in northeast Ohio where she writes mostly letters and sometimes poetry. She is often seen out in the wild with a camera, spying on nature, everyday life, and writers. Her photography has appeared on chapbooks published by Nightballet Press and Crisis Chronicles Press, and also online at Thirteen Myna Birds, The Octopus Review, and The City Poetry. Her words have appeared in Trailer Park Quarterly. More than all of this she is trying to compose the perfect bowl of soup.
 

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Matthew Ussia is director of Duquesne University’s First Year Writing Program in spite of the fact that he got a C- in freshman writing and was rejected from Duquesne’s MA program. He is also an editor, podcaster, post-doom thereminist, softcore punk, postpunk backup singer, social media burnout, and sentient organic matter. His first book, The Red Glass Cat, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2021. His writings have appeared in Mister Rogers and Philosophy, Future Humans in Fiction and Film, North of Oxford, Trailer Park Quarterly, Anti-Heroin Chic, and The Open Mic of the Air Podcast among others.

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Bart Solarczyk is a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, PA. Over the past forty years his poems have been published in print & online in a variety of magazines, journals, newspapers & anthologies. He is the author of eleven chapbooks & three full-length collections of poetry including his most recent book Carried Where We Go available from Redhawk Publications.
 

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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).

Kevin was, unfortunately, unable to participate in this reading.

Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season (Turning Point), is now available.

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