The 2024 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series (50th Anniversary Season): Week Two – Cameron Barnett, Christina Fisanick, Byron Hoot, Jason Irwin & Shannon Sankey!
May 28 @ 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 Two: Tues May 28
Cameron Barnett, Christina Fisanick, Byron Hoot, Jason Irwin & Judith Vollmer
Cameron Barnett is a poet and teacher from Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water, the winner of the Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is a graduate of Duquesne University and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Other honors include a 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Emerging Artist and serving as the ’22-’24 Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. Cameron teaches at his middle school alma mater, Falk Laboratory School. His work explores the complexity of race, place, and relationships for Black people in America. His second full length book of poetry, Murmur, was published by Autumn House Press in 2024.
Christina Fisanick is the editor or author of more than thirty books, including the memoir The Optimistic Food Addict (MSI 2016) and Digital Storytelling as Public History (Routledge 2020) with co-author Robert Stakeley. In addition, her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in a broad range of publications. She is passionate about the history of her hometown, Wheeling, WV, which is the subject of her forthcoming collection of essays, Pulling the Thread: Untangling Wheeling History. When not writing or making art, Dr. Fisanick serves as professor of English at PennWest, the president of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia (WANA), and the co-host of WANA LIVE! Learn more about her work at christinafisanick.com.
Byron Hoot was born and raised in Morgantown, WV, and he lived there until he went to college, a 12-year excursion. He never returned to West Virginia but he never left it. Appalachia, the hills and streams, the people, his memory of those first 18 years are deeply embedded. He now lives in northwestern Pennsylvania . . . still in Appalachia, continuing his work as a published poet. His work has appeared in Rattle, The Watershed Journal, Tobacco Literary Arts Journal, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is co-founder of The Tamarack Writers and The Fernwood Writers Retreat. His most recent book is Poems of a Mad Hunter and Other Tales (2023). For more, go to www.hootnhowlpoetry.com
Jason Irwin is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag, 2020). In 2022 he was a Zoeglossia Fellow and part of the Poetry Foundation’s Disability Poetics Project. His nonfiction has been published in Santa Ana Review, Panorama, The Catholic Worker, and City of Asylum’s Pittsburgh Live/Ability: Encounters in Poetry and Prose Project. He grew up in Dunkirk, NY, and now lives in Pittsburgh. https://jasonirwin.blogspot.
Shannon Sankey is the author of WE RAN RAPTUROUS (The Atlas Review, 2019). She holds an MFA in Poetry and Pedagogy from Chatham University, where she was the Margaret L. Whitford Fellow. She is the recipient of a 2017 Academy of American Poets University & College Prize and a 2019 SAFTA Residency, and she was selected for Best New Poets 2019.
