A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with thousands of people saying how much comfort it had brought them.

OU wide receiver Javonnie Gibson is out of his boot and on schedule to return, coach Brent Venables said Wednesday at SEC Media Days.

Venables said at the end of spring ball that he expected Gibson would still have a chance to get healthy in time for the upcoming season, and it sounds like his recovery is going well.

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson could send a spoken word poem spinning through space and time knowing it would reach its perfect home — swishing to a close in the last lines, nothing but net.

The OU coach gave a progress update on one of the Sooners' most important offseason transfer portal additions on Wednesday afternoon.

Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their 4-year battle with terminal ovarian cancer, died Monday at age 49.