Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Features Music Inspired by Holly J. Hughes' Passings

The 2023 Grammy Awards honored world-renowned choral group, The Crossing, for their performance of Born: Music of Edie Hill and Michael Gilbertson. The album features "Spectral Spirits," a four-part requiem to four extinct birds and based on Holly J. Hughes' poetry collection Passings. Originally published by Expedition Press, Passings won the American Book Award and was subsequently re-released by Wandering Aengus Press. Each poem in the collection is titled after and serves as elegy to different bird species that have gone extinct.