Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series - Season Finale!
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The 2026 HEMINGWAY’S SUMMER POETRY SERIES
The 52nd Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company
Eight Tuesdays – May through August 2026 @ 7 p.m. + Open mic
Founded by Jimmy Cvetic in 1974 or thereabouts.
Curated by Joan E. Bauer & Kristofer Collins
Audio archive: www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com
Tues. Aug 25- Grand Finale
Gerry Crinnin Lisa Hase-Jackson Gary Jackson
Emily Mohn-Slate Anthony Swofford
Bios:
Gerry Crinnin, a native of Syracuse, is an ex-U.S. Navy journalist who used the G.I. Bill to get a Master’s degree from Brown and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. For 23 years Crinnin taught English and writing classes at Jamestown Community College. His work has appeared most notably in Modern American Poetry. His most recent books include I Know You Know, with Peter Temes, and Haiku to the Chief (Ghost City Press 2016), a series of 43 haiku—one for each U.S. president.
Having spent most of her life moving to various parts of the country, Lisa Hase-Jackson happily finds herself living in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband, poet Gary Jackson. She has published two full-length collections of poetry, Insomnia in Another Town (Clemson University Press 2024,) and Flint and Fire (Word Works 2019), and has placed poems in such journals as Sugar House Review, Vox Populi, and Verse Daily, to name a few. She is Editor in Chief for the Zingara Poetry Project and teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Pittsburgh.
Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collections small lives, origin story, and Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He’s also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. His poems have appeared in journals including Callaloo, The Sun, Los Angeles Review of Books, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. He is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
Emily Mohn-Slate is the author of The Falls, winner of the 2019 New American Poetry Prize (New American Press), and Feed, winner of the 2018 Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press). Her poems and essays can be found in AGNI, The Adroit Journal, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Tupelo Quarterly, and
elsewhere. She teaches for the Madwomen in the Attic Workshops, writes the Be Where You Are newsletter, and co-hosts the Ass in Chair Collective.
Anthony Swofford is the author of the memoirs Jarhead and Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails and the novel Exit A. The 2005 Sam Mendes film Jarhead was adapted from his first book, detailing his service in the United States Marine Corps and his combat deployment for the 1990-91 Gulf War. His essays, reportage, and opinion pieces have appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian, Slate, and The New York Times, among other places. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently Special Faculty in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches screenwriting, television writing and fiction.
The 52nd Anniversary Season @ Hop Farm Brewing Company
Eight Tuesdays – May through August 2026 @ 7 p.m. + Open mic
Founded by Jimmy Cvetic in 1974 or thereabouts.
Curated by Joan E. Bauer & Kristofer Collins
Audio archive: www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com
Tues. Aug 25- Grand Finale
Gerry Crinnin Lisa Hase-Jackson Gary Jackson
Emily Mohn-Slate Anthony Swofford
Bios:
Gerry Crinnin, a native of Syracuse, is an ex-U.S. Navy journalist who used the G.I. Bill to get a Master’s degree from Brown and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. For 23 years Crinnin taught English and writing classes at Jamestown Community College. His work has appeared most notably in Modern American Poetry. His most recent books include I Know You Know, with Peter Temes, and Haiku to the Chief (Ghost City Press 2016), a series of 43 haiku—one for each U.S. president.
Having spent most of her life moving to various parts of the country, Lisa Hase-Jackson happily finds herself living in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband, poet Gary Jackson. She has published two full-length collections of poetry, Insomnia in Another Town (Clemson University Press 2024,) and Flint and Fire (Word Works 2019), and has placed poems in such journals as Sugar House Review, Vox Populi, and Verse Daily, to name a few. She is Editor in Chief for the Zingara Poetry Project and teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Pittsburgh.
Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collections small lives, origin story, and Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He’s also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. His poems have appeared in journals including Callaloo, The Sun, Los Angeles Review of Books, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. He is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
Emily Mohn-Slate is the author of The Falls, winner of the 2019 New American Poetry Prize (New American Press), and Feed, winner of the 2018 Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press). Her poems and essays can be found in AGNI, The Adroit Journal, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Tupelo Quarterly, and
elsewhere. She teaches for the Madwomen in the Attic Workshops, writes the Be Where You Are newsletter, and co-hosts the Ass in Chair Collective.
Anthony Swofford is the author of the memoirs Jarhead and Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails and the novel Exit A. The 2005 Sam Mendes film Jarhead was adapted from his first book, detailing his service in the United States Marine Corps and his combat deployment for the 1990-91 Gulf War. His essays, reportage, and opinion pieces have appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian, Slate, and The New York Times, among other places. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently Special Faculty in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches screenwriting, television writing and fiction.
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