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The 2024 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series (50th Anniversary Season): Week One – Jan Beatty, Amy Lee Heinlen, Ben Gwin, Hallie Pritts & Fred Shaw!
May 14 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The 2024 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES
50th Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company
Eight Tuesdays – 2nd & 4th of the Month – May through August @ 7 p.m.
Founded by Jimmy Cvetic in 1974 or thereabouts. Open Mic!
Curated by Joan E. Bauer & Kristofer Collins
Audio archive: www.hemingwayspoetryseries.
Hop Farm Brewing: www.hopfarmbrewingco.com
Week One: Tues May 14
Jan Beatty, Amy Lee Heinlen, Ben Gwin, Hallie Pritts & Fred Shaw
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
