Gathering in Poems at Thanksgiving
In support of the Academy of American Poets
Published in
1 min readNov 25, 2020
If you missed, or just want to revisit, the Academy of American Poets’ Gather in Poetry online event, November 24, 2020, you can find it online…and embedded below!
The Academy’s Gather in Poems events are open readings, providing many more people the opportunity to hear and see poets reading their worn than they may otherwise have. They also reveal poetry’s capacity to offer a sense of human community, deeply needed as we face this unusual Thanksgiving. As Edward Hirsch has said, “Poetry rises out of one solitude to meet another in recognition and connection. It companions us.”
This Thanksgiving I’m feeling grateful for all the ways that literature companions us during this challenging times.
