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 Six: Tues July 22
Kelley Beeson Bahar Davoudi Lou Ickes Alyssa Sineni Bob Walicki
Kelley Beeson holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Library and Information Science from The University of Pittsburgh. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lefty Blondie Press Chapbook Award for her book, Undress. Her work appears in Kestrel, Four Way Review, Rogue Agent, Kaliope,and has been twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kelley grew up in Pittsburgh and left only once for graduate school. She lives in the city, works as a crackerjack librarian, and writes as a mad-proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops since 1992.
Bahar Davoudi is an Iranian-Canadian poet and writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has been published in Voices from the Attic, The Poet, Barzakh Magazine, Writer’s Foundry Review, Fresh Air, The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain Anthology and is forthcoming in Stone Poetry Quarterly. She is a member of (sub)Verses Social Collective as well as Madwomen in the Attic Workshop at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. Bahar is a scientist holding a PhD in Medical Biophysics.
Lou Ickes Luther grew up on the tough streets of West Hempfield. He majored in Philosophy at IUP’s world renowned Philosophy and Religious Studies department. Luther has no books or publications to his name. He enjoys painting. Luther writes whenever it’s time. He once owned a bar [Brillobox], maybe he still does?” For more: https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/stories-of-our-neighbors-i-miss-the-wildness/
Alyssa Sineni is an artist and writer. She is a member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange, The Porch Poets, The Pittsburgh Society of Artists, and The Craftsmen’s Guild of Pitsburgh. She has poems published in The Ekphrastic Review,; They Call Us, Uppagus, Voices from the Attic Vol 28 and Vox Populi. In addition, Alyssa works as the Director of Programming for Art and Inspiration, a non-profit, which celebrates artists and writers.
Robert Walicki’s poems have appeared in over 50 journals including Chiron Review and Vox Populi. A two-time Pushcart and a Best of The Net nominee, Robert’s second chapbook The Almost Sound of Snow Falling was included in the exhibition catalog for New York’s Poet’s House, and his latest full-length poetry collection is Fountain from Main Street Rag Press. His forthcoming poetry collection, Watershed, will be published by Broadstone Press.
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The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company Eight Tuesdays – May through Read more
The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company Eight Tuesdays – May through Read more
The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company Eight Tuesdays – May through Read more
The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company Eight Tuesdays – May through Read more
The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company Eight Tuesdays – May through Read more
The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company Eight Tuesdays – May through Read more
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