Join Northampton artists Jess Martin (singer-songwriter) and Kim Hoff (poet-naturalist) for a special Easthampton Art Walk performance blending music, poetry, and community voices.
The evening opens with Echoes of Nature: Hampshire County, an original multimedia performance inspired by reflective hikes through six local wild spaces. Through song and spoken word, Martin and Hoff explore the ways landscapes hold grief, resilience, memory, and hope.
Following a brief intermission, the program continues with Echoes in Community, a poetry reading featuring Easthampton’s current Poet Laureate Carolyn Zaikowski, former Poet Laureate Carolyn Cushing, and poets JuPong Lin, Isabella Gitana, and Kat Good-Schiff. Their work echoes shared themes of loss, solace, caregiving, and restoration.
This collaborative evening offers audiences an opportunity to connect deeply—with nature, with words and music, and with one another.