"What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?" —Walt Whitman

The Academy of American Poets presents Gather in Poems on Thursday, November 7, 2024. This online reading is free and open to the public, featuring readings of favorite poems by Poet Laureate Fellows, current and former Academy Chancellors, and others. Hosted in the spirit of community, Gather in Poems 2024 also marks the Academy's ninetieth anniversary. 

 

Ricardo Maldonado reads “Shoulders” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Carolyn Forché reads “On Living” by Nâzim Hikmet

Joseph Rios reads “They Won’t Find Us in Books” by Willie Perdomo

Diane Seuss reads “The Miracle of Giving” by D. A. Powell

Andrea Gibson reads “The Church of Michael Jordan” by Jeffrey McDaniel

Robin Walter reads “Wait” by Galway Kinnell and “I Belong There” by Mahmoud Darwish

Tracy K. Smith reads “Carrowmore” by Lucie Brock-Broido

Tree Swenson reads “Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon

Jen Benka reads “From ‘Elegy in Joy’” by Muriel Rukeyser and “job prescription” by Evie Shockley

Patricia Smith reads “Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege” by Joseph Fasano

avery r. young reads “VOODOO V: ENEMY BE GONE” by Patricia Smith

Robert Hass reads “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Walt Whitman