PennSound
PennSound is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. It is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.
All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work.
PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, Directors
Michael S. Hennessey, Managing Editor
Mark P. Lindsay, Managing Director
SideGig #3: Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein performs an excerpt from Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All
SideGig #2: Eugene Ostashevsky
SideGig #1: Emily Wilson
Charles Bernstein: Launch for The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies,
Subject Index: Emily Dickinson conceals Iain Morrison
Neo-Benshi "It Happened One Night" (Charles Bernstein, 8/30/24)
PoemTalk 194: On Veronica Forrest-Thomson's "S/Z" and "Lemon and Rosemary" [Full Video]
PoemTalk 185: On Frank O'Hara's "Song" and "Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed!)" [Full Video]
PoemTalk 180: On seven poems by Lisa Fishman [Full Video]
Pierre Joris on Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, with Charles Bernstein
PoemTalk 175: On Joan Retallack's Poethical Wager [Full Video]
PoemTalk 174: On four poems from Sawako Nakayasu's Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From
PoemTalk 173: On poems from Divya Victor's Curb [Full Video]
PoemTalk 172: On Harryette Mullen's "Dim Lady" and "Sleeping with the Dictionary" [Full Video]
PoemTalk 168 (Abridged): On Jayne Cortez's "She Got He Got"
"Poetic Citizenship and Negative Dialectics" from Charles Bernstein's Topsy Turvy
Charles Bernstein reads Paul Celan's "Todesfuge," translated by Jerome Rothenberg.
Edwin Torres Performs "Blank Dot" from Quanundrum
Discussion on Matvei Yankelevich's Dead Winter
PoemTalk 170: On Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters
Charles Bernstein reads Robert Creeley
PoemTalk 168 Full Video: On Jayne Cortez's "She Got He Got"
Jerome Rothenberg performs several poems at his 90th birthday celebration, 12/12/21, NY.
Charles Bernstein and Marty Ehrlich perform "Fool for Love" by Erica Hunt
Lila Zemborain, Rasgado / Torn
Runa Bandyopadhyay (Bengali) and Charles Bernstein (English) read "Covidity"
What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010)
Jack Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues"
Charles Bernstein, "Todtnauberg Echo" after Paul Celan