The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES: Laurie Anderson, Joy Katz, Jill Khoury, Judith Sanders, Justin Vicari
June 10 @ 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 Three: Tues June 10
Laurie Anderson Joy Katz Jill Khoury Judith Sanders Justin Vicari
Laurie Anderson was born in western New York in the mid-50s. With a Baptist minister father, the family moved on to New Jersey, then Maine, and West Virginia. As an adult, she ping-ponged between Philly and New Jersey, moving to Pittsburgh in 1989. The thread woven through her career and much of her life is writing. She’s written consumer user guides, memos, reports, meeting minutes, concept papers, newsletters, and solicitation letters, ending with a growing focus on grant applications and grant reports, which is about all she writes now. Here and there, she’s attempted to write a few poems.
Joy Katz writes poetry, nonfiction, and memoir. Her latest poetry collection is All You Do Is Perceive, a National Poetry Series Finalist; her recent essay “Tennis is the Opposite of Death: A Proof,” in The Paris Review, was a Best American Essays finalist. She lives in Boston and Pittsburgh, where she collaborates in the socially engaged art collective IfYouReallyLoveMe, whose most recent project, OverHear, was live music for wage workers. Honors for her work include National Endowment for the Arts, Barbara Deming Foundation, Pittsburgh Foundation, and Stegner fellowships, and a Pushcart prize. She teaches poetry and nonfiction in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.
Jill Khoury (she/her) is a disabled poet and a Western Pennsylvania Writing Project fellow. She has taught poetry in high school, university, and enrichment settings. She holds an MFA from The Ohio State University and edits Rogue Agent, a journal of embodied poetry and art. Her poems have appeared in numerous venues, including Copper Nickel, VerseDaily, CALYX, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day. Winner of the Gatewood Prize, her second full-length collection earthwork is available from Switchback Books. Connect with her at jillkhoury.com.
Judith Sanders’ debut poetry collection In Deep was published by Kelsay Books; her second, The Universe with Borscht, is forthcoming from Kelsay in Fall 2025. Her work appears in numerous journals and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Her poems won the Hart Crane and Wergle Flomp Humor prizes. Her prose has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and selected as a Longreads “Top 5.” She earned a B.A. in literature from Yale, an M.A. in writing from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in English from Tufts. She taught English at universities and independent schools, and in France on a Fulbright Fellowship
Although they dropped out of college in the 1980s, Justin Vicari went on to write and publish two books of poetry and six volumes of critical theory. Their first book of poems, The Professional Weepers (Pavement Saw, 2011), won the Transcontinental Award. Vicari has also received awards from Third Coast and New Millennium Writings. A disabled person, Vicari suffers from a number of disorders which give unique perspective to their work, including being intersex, being bipolar, and having Asperger’s. Vicari’s second collection, In Search of Lost Joy, was published by Main Street Rag in 2018.
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