Friday@Hemingway's: Celebration of Poetry

Fri May 08 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-05:00

339 N Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302 | Oak Park

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park & Hemingway Birthplace Museum
Publisher/HostThe Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park & Hemingway Birthplace Museum
Friday@Hemingway's: Celebration of Poetry
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Join us for an evening of poetry and cocktails with featured poets P. Scott Cunningham and Christine Poreba. There will be time for a Q&A with the audience, and books will be available for sale and signing by the authors.
This is a free event, but we ask you to RSVP as space is limited
P. Scott Cunningham is the author of Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida (Autumn House, 2026), winner of the 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson. His debut collection, Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas, 2018), was selected by Billy Collins for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in The Nation, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY, A Public Space, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Monocle, and The Guardian, among others. Born and raised in South Florida, he is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the founder of the O, Miami Poetry Festival. He lives with his family in Illinois.
Christine Poreba is the author of Rough Knowledge (Anhinga Press, 2016) winner of the Philip Levine Prize and This Eye is for Seeing Stars, selected by Pádraig Ó Tuama for the 2023 Orison Poetry Prize (Orison Books, 2025). Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and numerous journals, including Barrow Street, The Southern Review, Cimarron Review, Willow Springs,and The Sun. A native New Yorker who spent many years in North Florida, she now lives in Chicagoland.
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