Hummingbird Art Exhibit by Kelly Houle Honoring Poet Norman Dubie

Kelly Houle's exhibition "Hummingbirds," is a series of 15 oil paintings inspired by Norman Dubie's poetry. Given Norman's significance to the ASU Creative Writing program and the establishment of the Piper Center, we are honored to host this event at the Piper house.

Kelly Houle is an Arizona-based poet and visual artist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alba, CALYX, Connecticut River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Kenyon Review, Radar Poetry, Sequestrum, and others. She was a finalist for the Arts and Letters ‘Unclassifiable’ contest and winner of a 2023 Vivian Shipley Award. In 2020 she received an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her paintings and handmade books are in public and private collections around the world, including the British Library, Yad Vashem, The M.C. Escher Foundation, and ASU's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and alumna of ASU’s MFA program in creative writing.