"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