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Poetry Sunday: A Celebration of Our Humanity Through the Arts
May 26 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
This Sunday’s program has been organized by Hugh Giblin, longtime friend of the Ethical Humanist Society of the Triangle. Hugh and two other poets, Pam Baggett and Jay Niver, will read from their original works. Following are a few details about the three of them:
Pam Baggett is author of Wild Horses (Main Street Rag, 2018), which received an honorable mention for the Brockman-Campbell Award. Other awards include an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant and a 2019-20 Fellowship in Literature from the North Carolina Arts Council. Recent work is featured in Orange County’s Coalesce Project and will soon be displayed on the Lake Johnson Nature Trail in Raleigh. Pam teaches occasional writing workshops through her library in Hillsborough and writes in a sunny studio overlooking a meadow in Cedar Grove.
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 returned to North Carolina just a few years ago. Jay is very involved with the Final Exit Network, a national nonprofit organization that supports the human right to death with dignity. He is also known to play pool upon occasion.
Hugh Giblin has been writing for years and has a full file of rejections to prove it. He has published a book, a non-fiction feature article in a national men’s magazine, poetry in literary journals, local and online, and has had two ten minute plays produced. His muse is currently on strike, but we hope that will change soon. In the meantime, he remains active and engaged in the world around us, and maintains his humanist values.
