Over this summer PRoB will be featuring the work of upcoming readers that will be appearing at Pittsburgh’s venerable Hemingway’s Poetry Series, now celebrating it’s 52nd anniversary. Poet Heather McNaugher will be appearing on May 12th, 2026 at Hop Farm Brewing Company in Lawrenceville alongside Emily Carlson and past PRoB contributors Frank Lehner, Tony Norman, and Sony Ton-Amie.
Looking Up
A river and its teeth are talking
about you.
The water’s confidences broach
in pencil. The sky this morning
wants to be the river.
You don’t blame it.
You dream in pencil. Your teeth
pour like salt
from your mouth.
Berlin
In Berlin next time
I’ll wear black
right down to my socks. My sweater
invulnerable as tarmac. It won’t matter
what mottles underneath.
And those ankle boots, elfin
and butch, that artists rock.
My cords, they’ll shimmer so
in them she can see herself.
All black, you know—no one
can touch you. Everyone
will want to.
