Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series - Week 3
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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. June 9
Valerie Bacharach Jason Irwin Rebecca Jung
Camille Rankine Anjali Sachdeva
Valerie Bacharach lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is a member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic Workshops. She received her MFA from Carlow University in 2020. Her book, Last Glimpse, was published by Broadstone Books in August 2024. Her poem, “Birthday Portrait, Son,” published by the Ilanot Review, was selected for inclusion in 2023 Best Small Fictions. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net.
Jason Irwin is the author of three books of poetry: The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag, 2020), A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016) and Watering the Dead, He also has two chapbooks Where Your Are (Nightballet, 2016) and Some Days It's A Love Story (Slipstream, 2005).winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award (Pavement Saw Press, 2008). In 2022, he was a Zoeglossia Fellow and part of the Poetry Foundation’s Disability Poetics Project. His new book, These Fragments I Have Shored: A Memoir, is forthcoming from Apprentice House in May 2026. Jason lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and writer, Jen Ashburn.
Rebecca Jung grew up an expat due to her father’s work, living in ten different countries within a span of ten years. Her work has been published in literary magazines, including: Sky Island Journal, Memoir, The Impetus, Pennsylvania Review, Evening Street Review, Postcards Poetry and Prose, Not Very Quiet, The Write Launch, Prometheus Dreaming, Purple Clover, and The Bangalore Review. Her work has also appeared in Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh, and Burningword Ninety-Nine, A Selected Anthology of Poetry, 2001- 2011, and numerous other anthologies. She earned her B.A. in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in art history from Kent State University. For more: www.rebeccajung.com
Camille Rankine is the author of Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published by Copper Canyon Press, and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Discovery Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Hawthornden Foundation, and MacDowell. She serves as co-chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, and is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. For more: www.camillerankine.com
Anjali Sachdeva’s short story collection, All the Names They Used for God, was the winner of the he 2019 Chautauqua Prize and the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), and was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. It was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Refinery 29, and BookRiot, longlisted for the Story Prize, and chosen as the 2018 Fiction Book of the Year by the Reading Women podcast. Her stories have been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Vogue India, and featured on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Investing in Professional Artists grant from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Chatham University.
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. June 9
Valerie Bacharach Jason Irwin Rebecca Jung
Camille Rankine Anjali Sachdeva
Valerie Bacharach lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is a member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic Workshops. She received her MFA from Carlow University in 2020. Her book, Last Glimpse, was published by Broadstone Books in August 2024. Her poem, “Birthday Portrait, Son,” published by the Ilanot Review, was selected for inclusion in 2023 Best Small Fictions. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net.
Jason Irwin is the author of three books of poetry: The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag, 2020), A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016) and Watering the Dead, He also has two chapbooks Where Your Are (Nightballet, 2016) and Some Days It's A Love Story (Slipstream, 2005).winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award (Pavement Saw Press, 2008). In 2022, he was a Zoeglossia Fellow and part of the Poetry Foundation’s Disability Poetics Project. His new book, These Fragments I Have Shored: A Memoir, is forthcoming from Apprentice House in May 2026. Jason lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and writer, Jen Ashburn.
Rebecca Jung grew up an expat due to her father’s work, living in ten different countries within a span of ten years. Her work has been published in literary magazines, including: Sky Island Journal, Memoir, The Impetus, Pennsylvania Review, Evening Street Review, Postcards Poetry and Prose, Not Very Quiet, The Write Launch, Prometheus Dreaming, Purple Clover, and The Bangalore Review. Her work has also appeared in Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh, and Burningword Ninety-Nine, A Selected Anthology of Poetry, 2001- 2011, and numerous other anthologies. She earned her B.A. in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in art history from Kent State University. For more: www.rebeccajung.com
Camille Rankine is the author of Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published by Copper Canyon Press, and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Discovery Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Hawthornden Foundation, and MacDowell. She serves as co-chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, and is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. For more: www.camillerankine.com
Anjali Sachdeva’s short story collection, All the Names They Used for God, was the winner of the he 2019 Chautauqua Prize and the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), and was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. It was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Refinery 29, and BookRiot, longlisted for the Story Prize, and chosen as the 2018 Fiction Book of the Year by the Reading Women podcast. Her stories have been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Vogue India, and featured on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Investing in Professional Artists grant from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Chatham University.
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