Poetry for Humanists and Humanity

Hugh Giblin will provide his own poetry, as well as the writings of others, as we seek to enjoy poetry as an expression of our common humanity and of our own roots in humanism.  Also participating in the poetry reading will be Jay Niver and Pam Baggett.

Here’s more information about our presenters:

Pam Baggett is the author of Wild Horses, chosen as a runner-up for the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook contest and published in 2018 by Main Street Rag.  Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, Spillway, and Tar River Poetry.  Pam is a recipient of an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists grant from the Durham Arts Council and two Artist Project grants from the Orange County Arts Commission.  She co-hosts the Second Thursday Poetry Reading series at Flyleaf Books, and hosts readings and teaches free writing workshops at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough.  She lives in rural Cedar Grove, NC.

Jay Niver is an award-winning, career journalist and public-relations specialist who sometimes dabbles in poetry and creative writing.  He was a reporter and editor of weekly newspapers in suburban Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Topsail Island and Beaufort County in North Carolina.  He also worked as a copy-desk editor for the daily papers in Wilmington and Jacksonville.  Jay spent 30 years in the Carolinas before moving to western Canada in 2009, and has just returned here, he claims, in order to join EHST.

Hugh Giblin is a Humanist, a sometime activist, a writer of sorts, with two produced plays, one non-fiction piece, and some published poetry to his credit — mostly “minor league stuff,” as he calls it, but he enjoys it.  He is an unreformed, unrepentant biblioholic with five library cards; he would rather read than do anything else in life.  He hopes to die reading a book on “The Best Way to Die.”