The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES: Daniela Buccilli, M. Scott Douglass, Marguerite Miller, Ed Simon & Anastasia Walker
May 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES
The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company
Eight Tuesdays – May through August 2025 @ 7 p.m.
Hop Farm Brewing Company 5601 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Founded by Jimmy Cvetic in 1974 or thereabouts.
Curated by Joan E. Bauer & Kristofer Collins
Audio archive: www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com
Hop Farm Brewing: www.hopfarmbrewingco.com
Week Two: Tues May 27
Daniela Buccilli M. Scott Douglass Marguerite Miller Ed Simon & Anastasia Walker
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yvonne McBride is a literary artist, freelance writer, and Pittsburgh native. Her work explores the identity, folklore, and collective memories of African American communities in her hometown and those of the diaspora, & has recently appeared in Essence, The Fire Inside II: Collected Stories & Poems from Zora’s Den, and The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, & Superhero Poetry. A recipient of The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Inaugural Exposure Artists Program, McBride has also received fellowships and support from MacDowell, The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, and the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh fund.
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