The 2024 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series (50th Anniversary Season): Week Eight – Jim Daniels, Lori Jakiela, Dave Newman, Adriana Ramirez & Michael Wurster!
August 27 @ 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 Eight: Tues August 27
Jim Daniels, Lori Jakiela, Dave Newman, Adriana Ramirez & Michael Wurster
Jim Daniels’ latest book, The Luck of the Fall, fiction, was published by Michigan State University Press in July 2023. Recent poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn, Wolfson Press, Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press, and Comment Card, Carnegie Mellon University Press. His first book of nonfiction, The Abridged Book of Water, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.
Lori Jakiela is the author of seven books, most recently They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So (Atticus Books). Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and more. She lives in Trafford with her husband Dave Newman, their two children, and a poodle named Dinkus. Her author website is http://lorijakiela.net.
Dave Newman is the author of seven books, including The Same Dead Songs: a memoir of working-class addictions (J.New Books, 2023). He lives in Trafford, PA, the last town in the Electric Valley, with his wife, the writer Lori Jakiela, and their two children. For the last decade he worked in medical research. He currently teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg.
Adriana E. Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian poet, critic, and writer. In 2015, she won the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer’s Prize for Dead Boys (Little A, 2016) and now works as a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is the recipient of the Pittsburgh Foundation’s 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award. Her work can be found in the Atlantic, Boston Globe, LA Times, People Magazine, ESPN’s The Undefeated, Pen America and Literary Hub. Once a nationally ranked slam poet, she founded the infamous Nasty Slam in Pittsburgh and continues to perform around the country. Her long-awaited book, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner in March 2025.
Michael Wurster has lived in Pittsburgh since 1964 and is a founding member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. For 17 years, 1993-2010, he taught at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts School. In 2009, his book, The British Detective, was published by Main Street Rag. His two previous poetry collections are The Cruelty of the Desert (Cottage Wordsmiths, 1989) and The Snake Charmer’s Daughter (ELEMENOPE, 2000). He is co-editor, with Judith R. Robinson, of the anthology, Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant Press, 2008), and The Brentwood Anthology (Lummox Press, 2014). In 1996, Wurster was an inaugural recipient of a Pittsburgh Magazine Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award for his contributions to poetry and the community. His most recent full-length book of poems, Even Then, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2019.
