The 2024 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series (50th Anniversary Season): Week Three – Valerie Bacharach, Doralee Brooks, Sherrie Flick, Don Wentworth & Stephanie Wielkopolan!
June 11 @ 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 Three: Tues June 11
Valerie Bacharach, Doralee Brooks, Sherrie Flick, Don Wentworth & Stephanie Wielkopolan
Valerie Bacharach’s book, Last Glimpse, will be published by Broadstone Books and her chapbook After/Life will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. Her poem, “Birthday Portrait, Son,” published by the Ilanot Review, was selected for inclusion in 2023 Best Small Fictions. Her poem, “Shavli,” has been nominated for Best of the Net 2023 and a Pushcart Prize by Minyan Magazine. Her poem, “Deadbolt,” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by RockPaperPoem.
Doralee Brooks is a facilitator for the Madwoman in the Attic poetry workshops at Carlow University and professor emerita of the Community College of Allegheny County in Developmental Studies. She is a fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project (95) and Cave Canem (97 and 99). Doralee holds an MEd from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Carlow University. Her poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies including Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Uppagus. Doralee’s chapbook, When I Hold You Up to the Light, won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest published by Main Street Rag. She is City of Asylum’s Poet Laureate of Allegheny County 2022-2024.
Sherrie Flick is the author of a novel and two short story collections. Most recently: Thank Your Lucky Stars (Autumn House Press). She served as co-editor for the 2023 Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018. She is the recipient of a Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh Fellowship from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation. Recent work appears in Puerto del Sol, Western Humanities Review, and New England Review. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in September of 2024.
Don Wentworth is a Pittsburgh-based poet whose work reflects his interest in the revelatory nature of brief, haiku-like moments in everyday life. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Gargoyle, frogpond, Chiron Review, and Rolling Stone, as well as a number of anthologies. He is the author of three collections of brief work: Past All Traps (2011), Yield to the Willow (2014) and With a Deepening Presence (2016), published by Six Gallery, and is working on a forthcoming collection of ghazals and a Selected and New Poems.
Stephanie Wielkopolan is a poet and educator with deep Midwestern roots. She is in love with Western Pennsylvania and calls Pittsburgh home. Her poetry collection, Home is a Sweater, was published in 2023 by Finishing Line Pres, andd her first book of poems, Border Theory, was published in 2011 by Black Coffee Press. She currently teaches writing to middle school students and works as an administrator for a college writing center. When she isn’t working, she can be found writing, napping, reading, anxiously trying to figure out the world, or watching reruns of “Newhart.”
