The 2024 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series (50th Anniversary Season): Week Six – Nikki Allen, Jason Baldinger, John Dorsey, Leslie Anne Mcilroy & Scott Silsbe!
July 23 @ 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 Six: Tues July 23
Nikki Allen, Jason Baldinger, John Dorsey, Leslie Anne Mcilroy & Scott Silsbe
Nikki Allen is a lover & a writer. She is the author of numerous books, including Quite Like Yes, Ligaments of Light/Tigering the Shoulders (Night Ballet Press 2013), and Hotwire (River Dog Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in Gasconade Review, Nailed, Crash, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, out of nothing, Profane Journal (Pushcart Prize nominee ‘14/’15) and Encyclopedia Destructica among others. She believes in revolution, strong coffee, the hard knocks & the sweetness. More can be found at http://www.honeydunce.com
Jason Baldinger is a poet and photographer from Pittsburgh, PA. He is the co-editor of Trailer Park Quarterly and co-runs The Odd-Month Reading Series. He’s penned fifteen books of poetry the newest of which include: A History of Backroads Misplaced: Selected Poems 2010-2020 (Kung Fu Treachery), American Aorta (OAC Books) and This Still Life (Kung Fu Treachery) with James Benger. His first book of photography, Lazarus, was just released. He has two ekphrastic collaborations (with poets Rebecca Schumejda and Robert Dean) forthcoming. His work has appeared across a wide variety of online sites and print journals. You can hear him read from various books on Bandcamp and on lps by The Gotobeds and Theremonster.
John Dorsey lived for several years in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw’s Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory, (Epic Rites Press, 2013), Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015) Being the Fire(Tangerine Press, 2016) and Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Poetry, 2017), Your Daughter’s Country (Blue Horse Press, 2019), Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Afterlife Karaoke (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2021) and Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022). His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize, and he is the winner of the 2019 Terri Award given out at the Poetry Rendezvous.
Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her first full length collection Rare Space, and the 2018 Gemini Flash Fiction contest. Other collections include Liquid Like This (2008) and Slag (20014). Leslie’s writing appears in The Adirondack Review, Grist, Jubilat, The Mississippi Review, PANK, Poetry Magazine, New Ohio Review, The Texas Review, Vox Populi and more. Her memoir, The Red Door: An Historical Memoir of the Squirrel Hill Café, was published in 2020 by Main Street Rag. Leslie writes for Libsyn in Pittsburgh, PA, where she lives with her dog Butter.
Scott Silsbe was born in Detroit and grew up down the river from there. He now lives in Pittsburgh. He is the author of four books, Meet Me Where We Survive (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2023) Muskrat Family Dinner (2017), The River Underneath the City (2013) and Unattended Fire (2012). He is assistant editor at Low Ghost Press. Silsbe organizes multiple reading series and has been published in Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, Free State Review, Lilliput Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, LA Cultural Weekly and more.
