Name: Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series - Week 1
Start: 2026-05-12T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Hop Farm Brewing Company

Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series - Week 1

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 May 12:
Emily Carlson Frank Lehner Heather McNaugher
Tony Norman Sony Ton- Aime
Bios:
Emily Carlson is a mother, a teacher, and the director of Art in the Garden , a liberatory, anti-racist, LGBTQA+ welcoming, and joy-centered program that addresses the impacts of childhood adversity and trauma. She’s the author of the chapbooks, Symphony No. 2 (Argos Books, 2015) and I Have a Teacher (The Center for Book Arts, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Aufgabe, Bloom, Denver Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, and other journals. With friends, she runs the Bonfire Reading Series. Emily lives with her partner and their three children in an intentional community centered around an urban garden in Pittsburgh, PA. Her chapbook, Why Misread a Cloud, was chosen by Kimiko Hahn as winner of Tupelo Press’s 2022 Sunken Garden Chapbook Award.
Frank Lehner is a poet, award-winning book designer, folk artist, and playwright. Frank hails from and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, the writer and educator, Nancy Koerbel, and their Husky mix, Mssr. Bârü. Frank holds a BA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in psychology from Duquesne University. His poetry has appeared in diverse periodicals and his plays have been staged in Pittsburgh and New York City. His new book, Mrs. Nussbaum's Monkey (2025), a Pittsburgh pastoral, was published by Bottom Dog Press in 2025.
Heather McNaugher is the author of Second-order Desire and System of Hideouts and two poetry chapbooks, Panic & Joy and Double Life . Currently nonfiction editor of The Fourth River, she has published prose in Fourth Genre and The Bellevue Literary Review. A member of The Barbara Pym Society, she recently presented and published her paper, ‘“ A Plain-looking Woman No Longer Young”: Acceptance as Irony in Crampton Hodnet.’
Tony Norman is an award-winning columnist, editorial writer and feature writer who wrote for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1988 to 2022 where he spent a lot of time musing on the intersection of politics and culture. Tony is easily aggravated by injustice and bad-faith arguments and enjoys venting in polysyllabic terms his critics find either endearing or exasperating. When he's not raging about some slight against our democratic republic, he's reading books, listening to podcasts, learning to cook for himself and working on his long threatened Great American Novel (c). His message to everyone is simple: get off my lawn.
Sony Ton-Aime serves as Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. He is a Haitian poet, translator, and art administrator. His poetry collection Konbit is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press, (2026). He is the author the chapbook, LaWomann (2019), the Haitian Creole translation of Olympic Hero: The Lennox Kilgour’s Story, and co-founding editor of ID13. His favorite book is Gouverneurs de la Rosee by Jacques Roumain. He enjoys cooking and photography.