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 Four: Tues June 24
Sharon Dilworth Yvonne McBride Ellen McGrath Smith Dave Housley Marcel Lamont Walker
Sharon Dilworth is an award-winning fiction writer. She’s the author of three short story books including Year of the Ginkgo, Women Drinking Benedictine, and The Long White. Her work is also featured in the collection of short stories, Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She’s the recipient of numerous awards including The Iowa Award in Short Fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize in Fiction, a Hopwood Award. Currently, Sharon lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she is the Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Creative Writing program. UPDATE. Her latest novel, To Be Marquette, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2024.
Dave Housley is the author of four novels and five story collections, most recently the novel The Other Ones, and the collection Looney. His work has appeared in Booth, Identity Theory, McSweeneys, Wigleaf, and some other places. He is one of the founding editors at Barrelhouse, and the primary organizer of the Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on Writing, which is held in DC in the Spring. He is the Director of Web Strategy for Penn State Online Education.
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.
Ellen McGrath Smith teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program. Her poetry has appeared in The Georgia Review, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Talking Writing, Los Angeles Review, and other journals and anthologies. Books include Scatter, Feed (Seven Kitchens 2014) and Nobody’s Jackknife (West End Press 2015). Her chapbook Lie Low, Goaded Lamb was published in January 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press as part of its Keystone Series.
Marcel Lamont (M.L.) Walker is an award-winning graphic-prose creator and authority in social applications for comic-book art. In 2017, he was voted Best Local Cartoonist by readers of The Pittsburgh City Paper, and in 2018, he was awarded a BMe Community Genius Fellowship in recognition of his work in the arts. Since 2014 he has worked as the lead artist and book designer for the acclaimed comic-book series CHUTZ-POW! SUPERHEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST, published by The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. He continues to work with educators and students across the country to promote the use of literature and visual art as forces for social good.
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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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