Saturday, June 28, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Free
Advance Registration Required

Passenger pigeon. Carolina parakeet. Northern curlew. Heath hen. In ‘Passings,’  poet and essayist Holly J. Hughes gives voice to these and other bird species who have vanished. As award-winning nature writer Tim McNulty writes, “Holly Hughes's elegiac meditations on birds that have vanished from earth give us a glimpse of the avian beauty that once filled our skies, and they echo with a sobering reminder of what we still stand to lose.  Hughes gives eloquent voice to the voiceless in these poems, and strikes a heartfelt call to awareness.” 

Join us Saturday, June 28th at 2 pm when Holly J. Hughes will join artist Natalie Niblack, whose exhibit ‘66 Birds, 3 Degrees’ is currently on display, to read poems from Passings. Together, they'll engage in a dialogue on how art and writing can inspire us to take action to protect the bird species that remain, and also invite questions from the audience.