PennSound

PennSound
Available inEnglish
OwnerCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania
Created byAl Filreis and Charles Bernstein
EditorMichael Hennessey
URLwriting.upenn.edu/pennsound/
CommercialNo
Launched2005; 19 years ago (2005)

PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. The website offers over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet, all of which are available free for download. PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein. It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]