The 2024 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series (50th Anniversary Season): Week Four – Sheila Carter-Jones, Kevin Finn, Richard Hamilton, James Croal Jackson & Silas Maxwell Switzer!
June 25 @ 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 Four: Tues June 25
Sheila Carter-Jones, Kevin Finn, Richard Hamilton, James Croal Jackson & Silas Maxwell Switzer
Sheila Carter-Jones is the author of Three Birds Deep (selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Book Award) and the chapbook Blackberry Cobbler Song. Her chapbook Crooked Star Dream Book was named Honorable Mention for the New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Contest. Carter-Jones taught in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher. She also taught in Chatham University’s and the University of Pittsburgh’s Education Departments. She earned her BA from Carnegie Mellon University and both a Master’s in Education and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and a Walter Dakin Fellow of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her newest poetry collection, Every Hard Sweetness, will be published by BOA Editions in April 2024.
Kevin Finn is a poet, musician, visual artist and martial artist from Pittsburgh, PA. His poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, and his latest collection is entitled, Consequence of Dream (Six Gallery Press, 2022).
Richard Hamilton (he/they) was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and raised in the American south. He received an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama and an MA in Arts and Politics from New York University. Hamilton is the author of Rest of Us (Re-Center Press, 2021). His book, Discordant (Autumn House Press, 2023), was the winner of the 2022 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics’ book prize. He has received fellowships and awards from Oscar and Gene Derwood, the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival, the Cave Canem foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, among others. He holds the 2023-2025 post-doctoral creative writing fellowship at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Hamilton lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023) and Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022). Recent poems are in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Lakeshore Review, and The Round. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com)
Silas Maxwell Switzer is a musician, poet, and history student who’s dedicated to exploring and preserving the local queer history in Pittsburgh, PA, his lifelong home. In his effort to emulate the noble possum, Silas has recently taken to allowing himself to be coaxed out of his hiding spots by pieces of interesting trash, an interest which he calls “digital archiving.” You can find him on most websites, including Patreon and Bandcamp, as silasmaxwellswitzer. His chapbook, Nine Parts Water, One Part Bleach, was published by Main Street Rag in 2023.
