Chants in Copley Square

Copley Square fountain, with the Old South Church’s tower in distance, in a recent, pre-pandemic summer.

— Photo by Caroline Culler

“There’s a poem in Boston’s Copley Square

where protest chants

tear through the air

like sheets of rain,

where love of the many

swallows hatred of the few.’’

— From “In This Place (An American Lyric)’’, by Amanda Gorman