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The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES: Jay Carson, Veronica Corpuz, Elisabeth Crago, Carl Marcum, Virginia Montanez

August 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The 2025 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES

The 51st Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company

Eight Tuesdays – May through August 2025 @ 7 p.m.

Hop Farm Brewing Company 5601 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Founded by Jimmy Cvetic in 1974 or thereabouts.

Curated by Joan E. Bauer & Kristofer Collins

Audio archive: www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com

Hop Farm Brewing: www.hopfarmbrewingco.com

 

Week Seven: Tues August 12

Jay Carson  Veronica Corpuz  Elisabeth Crago Carl Marcum Virginia Montanez

Jay Carson taught for many years at Robert Morris University where he was a founding advisor for the literary magazine Rune. He has published more than 100 poems and short stories in national journals, anthologies and collections. Jay is also the author of Irish Coffee (Coal Hill Review) and The Cinnamon of Desire (Main Street Rag). His hybrid memoir, A Legacy of Myth, was published in 2025.   He considers his work to be Appalachian, accessible, the ongoing problem-solving of a turbulent life, and just what you might need.

Veronica Corpuz is an interdisciplinary poet who explores themes of grief, memory and family in her work. A member of the Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University and the #notwhite collective, she facilitates writing workshops that invite discovery and delight through guided imagery and grounding, embodiment exercises.     

Elisabeth Crago holds an MFA from Carlow University with a dual focus on poetry and creative non-fiction. She has degrees in English and Nursing. In a former life, life, Crago administered a large breast health services program in Eastern, PA. She then spent 12 years involved in farming and aquaculture in New Zealand. In 2014 she relocated to Pittsburgh where she volunteers at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, the Center for Women, and is active in the Madwomen in the Attic program of Carlow University.  Her work has been published in Voices in the Attic, Eye on the Telescope, Dreamers Creative Writing, One Art Poetry, and Carlow University’s MFA anthology.

Carl Marcum is a Latino poet from Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of Cue Lazarus, and A Camera Obscura, winner of the Letras Latinas / Red Hen Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Wind Shifts: An Anthology of New Latino Poets, and Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Sci-Fi and Fantasy among other journals and anthologies. Marcum earned his MFA from the University of Arizona and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He has been a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Illinois Arts Council and served as a Canto Mundo Fellow. He taught for several years at DePaul University in Chicago and now lives in Pittsburgh where he teaches in the BXA Intercollege Degree Program at Carnegie Mellon University.  

Virginia Montanez, formerly known under her anonymous alias PittGirl, is a longtime writer who once spent the day as one of the most-Googled names in the country when she was fired from her nonprofit Pittsburgh job after revealing her identity as the writer of the popular humor site The Burgh Blog. Montanez went on to publish a successful follow-up blog about Pittsburgh and then became the humor columnist for Pittsburgh Magazine before leaving to focus on writing novels. Her debut novel Nothing. Everything was published in 2023 by Winding Road Stories. She is the volunteer founder of Make Room for Kids at Mario Lemieux Foundation, a program that has placed hundreds of XBOXes in nearly every in-patient room at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is the creator of the history mapping project Pittsburgh Remains to be Seen. Additionally, she authors the history column for Pittsburgh Magazine and teaches the Pittsburgh History to World War II class for the Osher program at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been profoundly hearing impaired since birth.

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Details

Date:
August 12
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Website:
www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com

Venue

Hop Farm Brewing Company
5601 Butler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201 United States
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