The 2024 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series (50th Anniversary Season): Week Seven – Nancy Krygowski, Mary Soon Lee, Bob Pajich, Bonita Lee Penn & Michael Simms!

The 2024 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES
50^th 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.blogspot.com

Hop Farm Brewing: www.hopfarmbrewingco.com

Week Seven: Tues August 13

Nancy Krygowski, Mary Soon Lee, Bob Pajich, Bonita Lee Penn & Michael Simms

Nancy Krygowski is the author of The Woman in the Corner, named one of 2020’s top 100 poetry books by Library Journal, and Velocity, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and is a member of the Pitt Poetry Series  editorial committee.

Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and a three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers’ Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest books are from opposite shores of the poetry ocean: How to Navigate Our Universe, containing 128 astronomy poems, and The Sign of the Dragon, epic fantasy, winner of the Elgin Award. Her website, cryptically named, is marysoonlee.com

Bob Pajich is a long-time creative writer from Pittsburgh. He runs the chapbook press Zigler Boy and writes poker news articles for money. His book of poems, The Trolleyman, was published by Low Ghost Press in 2015. His latest collection Panda Magic was published in 2020..

Bonita Lee Penn, poet, recipient of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant for her project ‘Gospel in the Wake.’ She serves on the Sweetwater Center for Arts Board of Directors and their Artist Cohort Committee; managing editor of the Soul Pitt Quarterly Magazine; author of Every Morning a Foot is Looking for my Neck; The Trees Will Testify. Her work has appeared in literary journals and the anthology Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience. Penn is a Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fello w and a Madwomen in the Attic workshop facilitator; sewist, B’s Bags LLC.

Michael Simms is the founder/editor of Vox Populi, an online forum for poetry, politics and nature, as well as the founder/editor emeritus of Autumn House Press. He’s the author of three full-length collections of poetry published by Ragged Sky Press: American Ash, Nightjar, and Strange Meadowlark. Simms has three novels published by Madville: Bicycles of the Gods, The Green Mage and Windkeep, and another novel The Blessed Isle is scheduled for release in late 2024. His poems have appeared in Poetry (Chicago), Poem-a-Day published by The Academy of American Poets, The Southwest Review, Black Warrior Review and Plume Poetry. He lives with his wife Eva in the historic neighborhood of Mount Washington overlooking the city of Pittsburgh.