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PennSound

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PennSound

PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives: a poetry website and online archive that hosts free, downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work, and of others' work. Its own YouTube channel calls it a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet, and its Instagram account the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present. It has been called the "iTunes for poetry", a phrase Wikipedia attributes to Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, and its running series of posts is PennSound Daily.

It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, whose site lists it among the Center's programs beside the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo, under the Center's director, Al Filreis; PennSound itself is directed by Charles Bernstein, Filreis and Chris Mustazza and edited by Michael S. Hennessey, with Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors. Two other descriptions name two directors: the description on its YouTube channel lists Bernstein and Filreis as directors, Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and a profile on poets.org, posted in December 2006, calls Bernstein one of the site's two directors along with Filreis. Filreis and Bernstein created it, and it was launched in 2005; an article on Penn Today under the title "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens by setting it against a recording industry that "may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it".

Recordings are filed on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, podcast and Close Listening collections and the PennSound Daily archive beside them. Readings are broken down into singles, one poem to a file, and complete readings are also kept; a 2006 profile set this organization against "many poetry audio archives", and newly segmented readings, cut by poem and by topic, continue to be announced. The PennSound Manifesto, by Bernstein, sets six rules, among them that recordings be free and downloadable and broken down into singles, that all files be named, that bibliographic information be embedded in each file, and that sound files be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet's name and from search engines on the web; the About page links it and the launch press release. The census records that a work is held under the poet's name on an author page and under a series name on series pages, such as Belladonna* and Love Jawns: A Mixtape, and that the saved pages state no policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names. The archive's paper on heteronymy holds that a civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern scholarly, literary, institutional and platform production, copyright among them, and it distinguishes the pseudonym, which changes the label attached to an authorial function, from the heteronym, which changes the organization of the function itself.

Where the reader differs from the author, a recording names both: the historical selection on the home page lists John Clare's "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein, Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin and Rochelle Kraut, Kurt Schwitters's "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Schwitters (spelled "Scwhitter" on the page), and Velimir Khlebnikov's "Incantation by Laughter", translated and performed by Bernstein. A co-composer is credited the same way, the music and performance of one piece being by Christopher Reiner "and included with permission", and the selection itself is signed "Selected by Charles Bernstein". The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so that a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither, and its filing rule is the poet's name, with no evidence beyond the names it files under of whether a chosen name is kept as given. In the archive's account of heteronymy, ordinary translation, role-playing "understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization" and collaborative authorship that constitutes no distinct heteronym fall outside the concept, and a heteronymic architecture is said to make a collapse of plural functions register as loss; the census, for its part, tags PennSound as not limited to the poet's own voice.

Its holdings run from historic recordings by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Guillaume Apollinaire, William Carlos Williams and H.D. to what Wikipedia groups as more recent recordings, by Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein and Lyn Hejinian, with readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Chaucer, Milton, Pope and Shakespeare; its historical selection opens with Apollinaire's "Le Pont Mirabeau" of 1913. A 2006 profile gave its emphasis as "the experimental and adventurous", across emerging and canonical poets, and the census gives its coverage as recordings from the 1910s onward, from the United States and elsewhere, with no geography stated. Its size is stated in two units: Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, "the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet", and in another sentence well over 50,000 sound files, while its Instagram account gives more than 50,000 recordings; its own saved site pages state no count.

Its recordings come from the poets themselves, from universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, and from poets' estates, and it states the limit of its record: "We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time," with supplements invited. A 2006 profile reported the manifesto's commitment to recordings "with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible" and called the archive committed to dates and documentation for all of its recordings; the census counts complete bibliographic data for every recording among what the resource does not answer.

Its newest collection, announced on 27 March 2026, is a home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 1970s, 1980s and 2000s, launched with hundreds of recordings and "still under construction"; the Eric Mottram Centennial Collection is another. The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, where episode 84, with Gina Myers, is dated 1 April 2026 and the editor, Hennessey, presents episodes of his own; his retrospective podcast, PennSound Rewind, received its own page in March 2026 and is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org. With the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation it sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast discussing a different poet or poem each show. The census records it as active, with PennSound Daily posts from November 2025 to March 2026, and the newest listing on its home page is George Quasha reading genius foci at Barrytown, New York, on 14 July 2026.

Its files are free to stream and download as MP3s and are intended for non-commercial use by anyone, teachers and libraries included; the description on its YouTube channel states the terms in full: "All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work." The census, reading its site pages and its encyclopedia article, records the rights terms of individual recordings as not stated, counts who holds the rights to a recording among the questions the resource does not answer, and leaves any rights or permissions statement unchecked. A March 2026 post on its home page counts PennSound among "publicly funded distribution platforms" and presents the kind of programming that is lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is "suddenly cut for political reasons".

It works in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries; its About page thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center, UbuWeb's creator Kenneth Goldsmith is among its senior editors, and the census enters UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center and Jacket2 as its neighbours.

Others describe it in their own terms: poets.org in 2006 as "a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one"; ModPo, the site of a course in modern and contemporary American poetry, as "the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems"; and its own X account, joined in March 2009, as an "audio & video archive of poetry & poetics" associated with the Kelly Writers House. On YouTube its channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos; a one-minute video titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound" is on The Brainwaves Video Anthology's channel, and two longer videos, of 51:52 on PennSound's channel and 54:21 on a channel named Jerry Inspired, carry no title beyond the platform's name.

The leesharks.com authorship census, which admits a resource that gathers and holds many works or records and says what it holds, enters PennSound as an empirical comparator in the areas of avant-garde and experimental archives and of attribution and credit, and asks of it how authored performance is recorded: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed, with performer and author credited apart. The census's anchors are the archive's paper on heteronymy and its essay on the existence tax, and its organizing question asks how authorship is made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained across persons, personas, collectives and machine participation, and what is lost when those relations are collapsed. By the census's account the resource answers whether a recording of a named poet is held, who performs a recording where the performer differs from the author, and which reading series and events it has recorded, and it leaves unanswered how an author who writes under several names is filed; the census leaves the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves to later reading, and Wikipedia's article, the field's encyclopedia source, was last edited on 22 September 2026.

Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview, at a new address, gave PennSound as "the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present", with its host, its directors, its singles, its scope and its programs, and the Capture Registry found the host and the three directors exact and the Ruas collection carried, the 2005 launch left out. The registry traces the count to the Instagram card and Wikipedia's "Well over 50,000 sound files", and the year 1913 to Apollinaire's recording, and notes that the composition calls all the files recordings and names T.S. Eliot, who appears in none of the three PennSound pages the census saved. It found the separate credits absent: the composition files everything under author pages, "individual catalogs for thousands of writers", in keeping with the manifesto's rule of the poet's name, and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another, the feature that makes PennSound a row of the census; the registry's analysis calls the archive composed accurately at its grain. The registry scored the composition's provenance at 0.25, the three directors and the Center named and the sources carded, and records PennSound as an external resource entered in the census on 1 November 2026 with its own pages saved by hash.

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1.PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives: a poetry website and online archive that hosts free, downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work, and of others' work.5
  • F49 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.
  • F17 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work.
  • LS-01 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['kind'] stipulation
    ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives; Wikipedia (third party) calls it a poetry website and online archive of recordings of poets reading their own work
  • LS-06 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record_type'] stipulation
    project
  • LS-11 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.keeps'] interpretation
    poets' readings of their own work and of others' work, with the performer named beside the author where they differ (John Clare's 'Vowelless Letter' performed by Charles Bernstein; Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin and Rochelle Kraut); co-composers credited (music by Christopher Reiner, 'included with permission')
2.Its own YouTube channel calls it a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet, and its Instagram account the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.2
  • F31 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet.
  • F42 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos, card 8 snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound is the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.
3.It has been called the "iTunes for poetry", a phrase Wikipedia attributes to Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, and its running series of posts is PennSound Daily.3
  • F22 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Described as the “iTunes for poetry” by co-director Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, PennSound provides all of its recordings in the form of free downloadable MP3s .
  • F1 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound' documented · field
    Inside PennSound … Authors … Series … Anthologies/Collections/Groups … PennSound Daily archive … Singles … Close Listening … Cinema … Classics
  • LS-02 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['aka'] documented
    PennSound Daily … the 'iTunes for poetry' (Charles Bernstein, as Wikipedia reports)
4.It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, whose site lists it among the Center's programs beside the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo, under the Center's director, Al Filreis; PennSound itself is directed by Charles Bernstein, Filreis and Chris Mustazza and edited by Michael S. Hennessey, with Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors.5
  • F50 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview documented · field
    PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
  • F51 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People documented · field
    Charles Bernstein , Al Filreis , and Chris Mustazza , Directors … Michael S. Hennessey , Editor … Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith , Senior Editors
  • F20 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s3–s4 documented · field
    PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis , Charles Bernstein and Chris Mustazza. … It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania .
  • F48 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — CPCW home page (named in T's body by the link 'Kelly Writers House'), CPCW home page, site title and navigation documented · field
    CPCW – Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing … Kelly Writers House Events … PennSound … ModPo … Director Al Filreis
  • LS-03 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['operator'] documented
    the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania; directors Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and Chris Mustazza, editor Michael S. Hennessey
5.Two other descriptions name two directors: the description on its YouTube channel lists Bernstein and Filreis as directors, Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and a profile on poets.org, posted in December 2006, calls Bernstein one of the site's two directors along with Filreis.2
  • F33 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, closing lines documented · field
    Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, Directors … Michael S. Hennessey, Managing Editor … Mark P. Lindsay, Managing Director
  • F37 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s3 documented · field
    In addition to readings, PennSound features a collection of lectures, interviews and talk shows hosted by Charles Bernstein, one of the site's two directors along with Al Filreis.
6.Filreis and Bernstein created it, and it was launched in 2005; an article on Penn Today under the title "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens by setting it against a recording industry that "may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it".3
  • F21 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox documented · field
    Creators … Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein … Launched … 2005
  • F40 Penn Today — PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download | Penn Today, card 6 title and snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download PHILADELPHIA-- The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it
  • LS-28 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['founded'] documented
    2005 (Wikipedia, third party)
7.Recordings are filed on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, podcast and Close Listening collections and the PennSound Daily archive beside them.3
  • F1 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound' documented · field
    Inside PennSound … Authors … Series … Anthologies/Collections/Groups … PennSound Daily archive … Singles … Close Listening … Cinema … Classics
  • LS-09 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['unit'] documented
    a recording, broken down into singles (one poem) with complete readings also kept, filed on an author page, a series page, an anthology/collection/group page, the singles archive, Cinema, Podcasts or Classics
  • LS-18 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['holdings.0'] documented
    author pages, series pages, anthologies/collections/groups, singles, Cinema, Classics, podcasts (PennSound Podcasts, PoemTalk, PennSound Rewind)
8.Readings are broken down into singles, one poem to a file, and complete readings are also kept; a 2006 profile set this organization against "many poetry audio archives", and newly segmented readings, cut by poem and by topic, continue to be announced.4
  • F25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · field
    generously provided to PennSound from the poets themselves, universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room , and from poets' estates. … Recordings are broken down into singles, or song length recordings of individual poems. … Complete readings are also available.
  • F36 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s2 documented · field
    Unlike many poetry audio archives, PennSound's collection is organized into "singles"—individual poems rather than larger, harder-to-download recordings of complete readings.
  • F44 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post of March 1, 2022 documented · field
    PennSound is now making available the segmented audio recording of Doug Kearney’s presentation/reading
  • LS-15 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['method'] documented
    producing new recordings (Kelly Writers House events, Close Listening and other series) and preserving existing audio archives given by poets, institutions, estates and collectors; segmenting readings into singles; adding bibliographic documentation over time, with users invited to supplement it
9.The PennSound Manifesto, by Bernstein, sets six rules, among them that recordings be free and downloadable and broken down into singles, that all files be named, that bibliographic information be embedded in each file, and that sound files be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet's name and from search engines on the web; the About page links it and the launch press release.2
  • F24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · field
    PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web.
  • F54 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview, links documented · field
    View the press release from PennSound's launch. … Read the PennSound Manifesto
10.The census records that a work is held under the poet's name on an author page and under a series name on series pages, such as Belladonna* and Love Jawns: A Mixtape, and that the saved pages state no policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names.2
  • LS-12 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.name'] interpretation
    under the poet's name on an author page; Wikipedia (third party) reports the manifesto's rule that sound files be indexed and retrievable 'under the poet's name'; the saved sources state no policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names; series pages hold work under a series name (Belladonna*, Love Jawns: A Mixtape)
  • F24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · field
    PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web.
11.The archive's paper on heteronymy holds that a civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern scholarly, literary, institutional and platform production, copyright among them, and it distinguishes the pseudonym, which changes the label attached to an authorial function, from the heteronym, which changes the organization of the function itself.2
  • O940-01 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §1 The political-semantic condition ¶2 s1–s6 interpretation
    A civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern legitimacy in scholarly, literary, institutional, and platform-mediated production. … Copyright attaches to legal names.
  • O940-02 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §2 The heteronymic operation, distinguished ¶2 stipulation
    A pseudonym changes the label attached to an authorial function. A heteronym changes the organization of the authorial function itself.
12.Where the reader differs from the author, a recording names both: the historical selection on the home page lists John Clare's "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein, Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin and Rochelle Kraut, Kurt Schwitters's "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Schwitters (spelled "Scwhitter" on the page), and Velimir Khlebnikov's "Incantation by Laughter", translated and performed by Bernstein.5
  • F3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54):
  • F4 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Hannah Weiner, from Clairvoyant Journal , performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut (2001) (6:12):
  • F6 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Kurt Schwitters, "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Scwhitter (1922-1932)
  • F5 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Velimir Khlebnikov, "Incantation by Laughter" (1910), tr. and performed by Bernstein
  • LS-11 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.keeps'] interpretation
    poets' readings of their own work and of others' work, with the performer named beside the author where they differ (John Clare's 'Vowelless Letter' performed by Charles Bernstein; Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin and Rochelle Kraut); co-composers credited (music by Christopher Reiner, 'included with permission')
13.A co-composer is credited the same way, the music and performance of one piece being by Christopher Reiner "and included with permission", and the selection itself is signed "Selected by Charles Bernstein".3
  • F11 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily (the Nielsen post) documented · field
    with the exception of "Self-Organizing Networks," where the music and performance is by Christopher Reiner (and included with permission).
  • F7 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, after the Historical list documented · field
    Selected by Charles Bernstein
  • LS-14 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.function'] interpretation
    authorship and performance credited apart: the author is named first and the performer after 'performed by' (Clare by Bernstein; Weiner with Mattlin and Kraut); a co-composer is credited for music and performance, 'included with permission'; the manifesto, per Wikipedia (third party), requires every file to be named and retrievable under the poet's name; responsibility for the rights of a recording is not stated
14.The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so that a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither, and its filing rule is the poet's name, with no evidence beyond the names it files under of whether a chosen name is kept as given.3
  • LS-24 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['ls_reading'] interpretation
    The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither. Its filing rule is the poet's name; whether a chosen name is kept as given is not shown beyond the names it files under.
  • F3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54):
  • F24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · field
    PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web.
15.In the archive's account of heteronymy, ordinary translation, role-playing "understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization" and collaborative authorship that constitutes no distinct heteronym fall outside the concept, and a heteronymic architecture is said to make a collapse of plural functions register as loss; the census, for its part, tags PennSound as not limited to the poet's own voice.3
  • O940-03 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §6 Ethical conditions and operational boundary, the list of what is typically not heteronymic stipulation
    Ordinary translation, where the translator's authorial function is not distinct from the translation role … Role-playing, where the role is understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization … Collaborative authorship, where multiple civil bearers contribute but no distinct heteronym is constituted
  • O940-04 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §2, 'It interrupts extraction by making reduction visible as reduction.' interpretation
    It ensures that the collapse registers as loss — the plurality was maintained, the seams were declared, the reduction is visibly reduction rather than recovery of ground truth.
  • LS-30 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['negative_tags'] interpretation
    NOT a commercial service: free download (Wikipedia, third party: commercial 'No') … NOT a complete bibliography of the recordings: documentation is added over time … NOT a rights clearance record: the saved sources state no rights terms per recording … NOT limited to the poet's own voice: some recordings are performances of one author's work by another
16.Its holdings run from historic recordings by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Guillaume Apollinaire, William Carlos Williams and H.D. to what Wikipedia groups as more recent recordings, by Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein and Lyn Hejinian, with readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Chaucer, Milton, Pope and Shakespeare; its historical selection opens with Apollinaire's "Le Pont Mirabeau" of 1913.4
  • F26 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s3 documented · field
    including historic recordings by poets such as Ezra Pound , Wallace Stevens , Guillaume Apollinaire , William Carlos Williams and H.D. , as well as more recent recordings by poets such as Allen Ginsberg , John Ashbery , Jack Spicer , Gertrude Stein , and Lyn Hejinian
  • F29 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, Classics documented · field
    PennSound also includes readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer , John Milton , Alexander Pope , and William Shakespeare .
  • F2 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
  • LS-10 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record_object'] documented
    recordings of poets, historical and contemporary (the home page's selections run from Apollinaire, 1913, to work of 2016), readings and talks at the Kelly Writers House and reading series, radio programming (the Charles Ruas collection, 1970s to 2000s), poetry-and-music albums, video and podcasts
17.A 2006 profile gave its emphasis as "the experimental and adventurous", across emerging and canonical poets, and the census gives its coverage as recordings from the 1910s onward, from the United States and elsewhere, with no geography stated.2
  • F39 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s1 documented · field
    PennSound's bountiful collection features both emerging and canonical poets with an emphasis on the experimental and adventurous.
  • LS-16 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['coverage'] documented
    not stated; recordings from the United States and elsewhere (Apollinaire, Khlebnikov, Schwitters, Bennett among the home page's selections) … recordings from the 1910s onward; the project since 2005 (Wikipedia, third party)
18.Its size is stated in two units: Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, "the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet", and in another sentence well over 50,000 sound files, while its Instagram account gives more than 50,000 recordings; its own saved site pages state no count.4
  • F18 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s2 documented · field
    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.
  • F19 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 documented · field
    Well over 50,000 sound files [ 4 ] are available for streaming and downloading
  • F42 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos, card 8 snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound is the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.
  • LS-17 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['count.value'] documented
    not stated on PennSound's own saved pages; Wikipedia (third party) gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings and, in another sentence, well over 50,000 sound files
19.Its recordings come from the poets themselves, from universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, and from poets' estates, and it states the limit of its record: "We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time," with supplements invited.3
  • F25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · field
    generously provided to PennSound from the poets themselves, universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room , and from poets' estates. … Recordings are broken down into singles, or song length recordings of individual poems. … Complete readings are also available.
  • F52 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶2 documented · field
    We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time. Please contact us if you can supplement the information already provided.
  • LS-21 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['stated_limits'] self-description
    We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time' … the Charles Ruas collection 'is still under construction and over time will see more additions and improvements
20.A 2006 profile reported the manifesto's commitment to recordings "with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible" and called the archive committed to dates and documentation for all of its recordings; the census counts complete bibliographic data for every recording among what the resource does not answer.2
  • F38 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶3 s1–s2 documented · field
    declares the project's commitment to regularly produce free, downloadable poetry recordings, in universal formats, with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible. … As an archive, PennSound is committed to providing dates and documentation for all of its recordings
  • LS-23 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['does_not_answer'] interpretation
    who holds the rights to a recording (not stated in the saved sources) … complete bibliographic data for every recording (documentation is added over time) … how an author who writes under several names is filed (no naming policy in the saved sources)
21.Its newest collection, announced on 27 March 2026, is a home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 1970s, 1980s and 2000s, launched with hundreds of recordings and "still under construction"; the Eric Mottram Centennial Collection is another.4
  • F8 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' (Posted 3/27/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/27/2026 … Today we're happy to announce a new home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 70s, 80s, and 00s. … this collection at launch features hundreds of recordings
  • F9 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' documented · field
    The collection is still under construction and over time will see more additions and improvements
  • LS-19 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['holdings.1'] documented
    the Charles Ruas collection of radio programming, launched 2026-03-27 with hundreds of recordings
  • LS-20 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['holdings.2'] documented
    the Eric Mottram Centennial Collection
22.The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, where episode 84, with Gina Myers, is dated 1 April 2026 and the editor, Hennessey, presents episodes of his own; his retrospective podcast, PennSound Rewind, received its own page in March 2026 and is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org.5
  • F14 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, footer documented · field
    PENNSOUND PODCASTS are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House
  • F15 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, first entry documented · field
    Gina Myers … PennSound Podcast #84 … April 1, 2026
  • F16 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, #82 'Before and After Christmas' documented · field
    PennSound Editor Michael Hennessey is back to spread a little holiday cheer
  • F10 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' (Posted 3/11/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/11/2026 … Michael S. Hennessey's new, retrospective podcast fittingly named PennSound Rewind now has a dedicated page here at PennSound.
  • LS-31 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['relations'] documented
    "target": "ubuweb" … "target": "epc" … "target": "jacket2" … PennSound Rewind is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org (the home page)
23.With the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation it sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast discussing a different poet or poem each show.2
  • F27 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Podcasts documented · field
    in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House and The Poetry Foundation , PennSound sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast that features a discussion of a different poet or poem each show.
  • LS-18 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['holdings.0'] documented
    author pages, series pages, anthologies/collections/groups, singles, Cinema, Classics, podcasts (PennSound Podcasts, PoemTalk, PennSound Rewind)
24.The census records it as active, with PennSound Daily posts from November 2025 to March 2026, and the newest listing on its home page is George Quasha reading genius foci at Barrytown, New York, on 14 July 2026.3
  • F12 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, New at PennSound documented · field
    George Quasha reading genius foci , Barrytown, NY, July 14, 2026
  • LS-27 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['lifecycle'] documented
    active … launched 2005 (Wikipedia, third party); PennSound Daily posts dated 11/12/2025 to 3/27/2026; the New at PennSound list includes a reading dated July 14, 2026
  • LS-29 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['version_and_time'] documented
    latest_daily_post": "2026-03-27" … "latest_listed_recording": "2026-07-14" … "wikipedia_edited": "2026-09-22
25.Its files are free to stream and download as MP3s and are intended for non-commercial use by anyone, teachers and libraries included; the description on its YouTube channel states the terms in full: "All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work."5
  • F22 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Described as the “iTunes for poetry” by co-director Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, PennSound provides all of its recordings in the form of free downloadable MP3s .
  • F23 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2 documented · field
    The files are intended to be used non-commercially by anyone interested in listening to them, and are furthermore available for use by teachers and libraries.
  • F32 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, ¶2 documented · field
    All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work.
  • LS-25 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['data_access'] documented
    free streaming and MP3 download; a search box; author, series, singles and anthology indexes
  • LS-26 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['license'] documented
    not stated on PennSound's saved pages; Wikipedia (third party) states the files are intended for non-commercial use
26.The census, reading its site pages and its encyclopedia article, records the rights terms of individual recordings as not stated, counts who holds the rights to a recording among the questions the resource does not answer, and leaves any rights or permissions statement unchecked.4
  • LS-13 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.holder'] interpretation
    the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at Penn; recordings provided by the poets themselves, universities and institutions and poets' estates (Wikipedia, third party); free to download, for non-commercial use (Wikipedia, third party); the rights terms of individual recordings are not stated in the saved sources
  • LS-23 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['does_not_answer'] interpretation
    who holds the rights to a recording (not stated in the saved sources) … complete bibliographic data for every recording (documentation is added over time) … how an author who writes under several names is filed (no naming policy in the saved sources)
  • LS-32 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['unchecked'] documented
    the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves … the PennSound Manifesto and the launch press release (linked from the About page; the manifesto is known here only from Wikipedia) … any rights or permissions statement for the recordings
  • F23 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2 documented · field
    The files are intended to be used non-commercially by anyone interested in listening to them, and are furthermore available for use by teachers and libraries.
27.A March 2026 post on its home page counts PennSound among "publicly funded distribution platforms" and presents the kind of programming that is lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is "suddenly cut for political reasons".1
  • F13 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' documented · field
    programming that get lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is suddenly cut for political reasons … the kind of valuable content hosted by publicly funded distribution platforms like PennSound
28.It works in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries; its About page thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center, UbuWeb's creator Kenneth Goldsmith is among its senior editors, and the census enters UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center and Jacket2 as its neighbours.4
  • F28 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Collaboration documented · field
    PennSound works closely in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House , UbuWeb , The Electronic Poetry Center , Jacket2 magazine, The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
  • F53 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People, closing thanks documented · field
    to UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center.
  • F51 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People documented · field
    Charles Bernstein , Al Filreis , and Chris Mustazza , Directors … Michael S. Hennessey , Editor … Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith , Senior Editors
  • LS-31 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['relations'] documented
    "target": "ubuweb" … "target": "epc" … "target": "jacket2" … PennSound Rewind is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org (the home page)
29.Others describe it in their own terms: poets.org in 2006 as "a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one"; ModPo, the site of a course in modern and contemporary American poetry, as "the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems"; and its own X account, joined in March 2009, as an "audio & video archive of poetry & poetics" associated with the Kelly Writers House.3
  • F35 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Based out of the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one.
  • F43 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post 'PennSound authors' (September 4, 2018) documented · field
    PennSound, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems, has a very extensive alphabetical listing of authors included in the archive.
  • F41 X — PennSound - X, X profile (card 7 snippet; B7.txt profile text) documented · field
    audio & video archive of poetry & poetics … Associated with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. … Joined March 2009 … 3,607 posts
30.On YouTube its channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos; a one-minute video titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound" is on The Brainwaves Video Anthology's channel, and two longer videos, of 51:52 on PennSound's channel and 54:21 on a channel named Jerry Inspired, carry no title beyond the platform's name.4
  • F34 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, card 4 snippet documented · field
    2.16K subscribers•338 videos
  • F45 YouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52), card 10 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·PennSound … 51:52 … YouTube
  • F46 YouTube·The Brainwaves Video Anthology — Charles Bernstein - PennSound (video, 1m), card 11 (the rail's title) documented · field
    Charles Bernstein - PennSound
  • F47 YouTube·Jerry Inspired — YouTube (video, 54:21), card 12 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·Jerry Inspired … 54:21 … YouTube
31.The leesharks.com authorship census, which admits a resource that gathers and holds many works or records and says what it holds, enters PennSound as an empirical comparator in the areas of avant-garde and experimental archives and of attribution and credit, and asks of it how authored performance is recorded: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed, with performer and author credited apart.5
  • LS-34 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json (top) admission_rule stipulation
    A row is an aggregator: a resource that gathers and holds many other works or records and says what it holds (operator, 2026-11-01).
  • LS-05 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['host_relation'] interpretation
    empirical comparator
  • LS-04 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['areas'] interpretation
    avant-garde-archives … attribution-and-credit
  • LS-07 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['question'] interpretation
    authored performance: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed, with performer and author credited apart
  • LS-08 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['evidence_kind'] documented
    audio recording … catalogue … critical commentary
32.The census's anchors are the archive's paper on heteronymy and its essay on the existence tax, and its organizing question asks how authorship is made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained across persons, personas, collectives and machine participation, and what is lost when those relations are collapsed.2
  • LS-35 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json (top) anchor documented
    "deposit": 940 … "deposit": 1722
  • LS-33 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json (top) organizing_question stipulation
    How is authorship made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained across persons, personas, collectives and machine participation, and what is lost when those relations are collapsed?
33.By the census's account the resource answers whether a recording of a named poet is held, who performs a recording where the performer differs from the author, and which reading series and events it has recorded, and it leaves unanswered how an author who writes under several names is filed; the census leaves the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves to later reading, and Wikipedia's article, the field's encyclopedia source, was last edited on 22 September 2026.4
  • LS-22 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['answers'] interpretation
    whether a recording of a named poet is held, on that poet's author page or a series page … who performs a given recording where the performer differs from the author … which reading series and events PennSound has recorded or archived
  • LS-23 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['does_not_answer'] interpretation
    who holds the rights to a recording (not stated in the saved sources) … complete bibliographic data for every recording (documentation is added over time) … how an author who writes under several names is filed (no naming policy in the saved sources)
  • LS-32 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['unchecked'] documented
    the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves … the PennSound Manifesto and the launch press release (linked from the About page; the manifesto is known here only from Wikipedia) … any rights or permissions statement for the recordings
  • F30 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer documented · field
    This page was last edited on 22 September 2026, at 03:16 (UTC) .
34.Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview, at a new address, gave PennSound as "the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present", with its host, its directors, its singles, its scope and its programs, and the Capture Registry found the host and the three directors exact and the Ruas collection carried, the 2005 launch left out.8
  • CAP-1-09 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, d documented
    'PennSound is the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present.' … Twelve cards: CPCW, Jacket2, Wikipedia, YouTube (four), poets.org, Penn Today, X, Instagram, ModPo.
  • CAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, q_kind documented
    the census name; NEW address.
  • CAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, reading interpretation
    The innocent reading first. Asked for the name, the Overview says what the archive is, where it is based, who directs it, how its files are cut and what it runs.
  • CAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, findings.0 documented
    HOST AND DIRECTORS EXACT. 'Co-directed by Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein, and Chris Mustazza.' … The new Charles Ruas collection is carried … The 2005 launch is not carried.
  • CAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, mt documented
    THE ARCHIVE AND ITS DIRECTORS EXACT; THE CHARLES RUAS COLLECTION OF 2026 CARRIED; ITS CREDITING OF PERFORMER APART FROM AUTHOR NOT CARRIED
  • F20 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s3–s4 documented · field
    PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis , Charles Bernstein and Chris Mustazza. … It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania .
  • F8 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' (Posted 3/27/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/27/2026 … Today we're happy to announce a new home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 70s, 80s, and 00s. … this collection at launch features hundreds of recordings
  • F21 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox documented · field
    Creators … Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein … Launched … 2005
35.The registry traces the count to the Instagram card and Wikipedia's "Well over 50,000 sound files", and the year 1913 to Apollinaire's recording, and notes that the composition calls all the files recordings and names T.S. Eliot, who appears in none of the three PennSound pages the census saved.4
  • CAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, findings.1 documented
    THE COUNT. 'over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present' follows the Instagram card and the saved article's 'Well over 50,000 sound files', and the 1913 the home page's 'Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913)'. … the composition calls all the files recordings. Of the four poets it names in its scope, T.S. Eliot appears in none of the three saved PennSound pages.
  • F42 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos, card 8 snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound is the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.
  • F19 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 documented · field
    Well over 50,000 sound files [ 4 ] are available for streaming and downloading
  • F2 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
36.It found the separate credits absent: the composition files everything under author pages, "individual catalogs for thousands of writers", in keeping with the manifesto's rule of the poet's name, and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another, the feature that makes PennSound a row of the census; the registry's analysis calls the archive composed accurately at its grain.4
  • CAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, findings.2 documented
    THE CREDITS NOT CARRIED. The census row reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type, where author, performer and co-composer are credited apart … The composition files everything under 'Author Pages: Extensive, individual catalogs for thousands of writers', matching the manifesto rule the article reports … and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another.
  • CAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, analysis interpretation
    The archive composed accurately at its grain, with its directors and its newest collection carried. The feature that makes it a census row, a performer and a co-composer credited beside the author, is absent.
  • F24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · field
    PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web.
  • F3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54):
37.The registry scored the composition's provenance at 0.25, the three directors and the Center named and the sources carded, and records PennSound as an external resource entered in the census on 1 November 2026 with its own pages saved by hash.3
  • CAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, per_note documented
    The three directors and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing named; sources carded.
  • CAP-1-10 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, originator.basis documented
    Not the archive's: an external resource, entered in the leesharks.com apparatus authorship census on 2026-11-01 (data/authorship-census, its own pages saved with hashes).
  • F50 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview documented · field
    PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
Compression · Field and archive, equal terms — L(B ∪ A)PennSound

PennSound is an ongoing project of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, producing new audio recordings of poets and preserving existing audio archives, free to stream and download; the archive reads it as a witness that credits author, performer and co-composer as separate attributions.

🎙️ What it holds

  • Filing: author, series, anthology and singles pages; readings cut into singles, complete readings kept.5↘
    It has been called the "iTunes for poetry", a phrase Wikipedia attributes to Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, and its running series of posts is PennSound Daily.§3 Recordings are filed on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, podcast and Close Listening collections and the PennSound Daily archive beside them.§7 Readings are broken down into singles, one poem to a file, and complete readings are also kept; a 2006 profile set this organization against "many poetry audio archives", and newly segmented readings, cut by poem and by topic, continue to be announced.§8 Its recordings come from the poets themselves, from universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, and from poets' estates, and it states the limit of its record: "We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time," with supplements invited.§19 With the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation it sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast discussing a different poet or poem each show.§23
  • Credits: Clare performed by Bernstein; Weiner with Mattlin and Kraut; Khlebnikov translated and performed by Bernstein; music by Christopher Reiner, "included with permission".5↘
    PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives: a poetry website and online archive that hosts free, downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work, and of others' work.§1 Where the reader differs from the author, a recording names both: the historical selection on the home page lists John Clare's "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein, Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin and Rochelle Kraut, Kurt Schwitters's "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Schwitters (spelled "Scwhitter" on the page), and Velimir Khlebnikov's "Incantation by Laughter", translated and performed by Bernstein.§12 A co-composer is credited the same way, the music and performance of one piece being by Christopher Reiner "and included with permission", and the selection itself is signed "Selected by Charles Bernstein".§13 The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so that a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither, and its filing rule is the poet's name, with no evidence beyond the names it files under of whether a chosen name is kept as given.§14 It found the separate credits absent: the composition files everything under author pages, "individual catalogs for thousands of writers", in keeping with the manifesto's rule of the poet's name, and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another, the feature that makes PennSound a row of the census; the registry's analysis calls the archive composed accurately at its grain.§36
  • Scope: Apollinaire's 1913 recording to contemporary poets; Pound, Stevens, Stein, Hejinian; classics to Shakespeare.3↘
    Its holdings run from historic recordings by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Guillaume Apollinaire, William Carlos Williams and H.D. to what Wikipedia groups as more recent recordings, by Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein and Lyn Hejinian, with readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Chaucer, Milton, Pope and Shakespeare; its historical selection opens with Apollinaire's "Le Pont Mirabeau" of 1913.§16 A 2006 profile gave its emphasis as "the experimental and adventurous", across emerging and canonical poets, and the census gives its coverage as recordings from the 1910s onward, from the United States and elsewhere, with no geography stated.§17 The registry traces the count to the Instagram card and Wikipedia's "Well over 50,000 sound files", and the year 1913 to Apollinaire's recording, and notes that the composition calls all the files recordings and names T.S. Eliot, who appears in none of the three PennSound pages the census saved.§35
  • Size: over 1500 recordings and well over 50,000 sound files (Wikipedia); "more than 50,000 recordings" (Instagram).3↘
    Its own YouTube channel calls it a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet, and its Instagram account the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.§2 Its size is stated in two units: Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, "the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet", and in another sentence well over 50,000 sound files, while its Instagram account gives more than 50,000 recordings; its own saved site pages state no count.§18 The registry traces the count to the Instagram card and Wikipedia's "Well over 50,000 sound files", and the year 1913 to Apollinaire's recording, and notes that the composition calls all the files recordings and names T.S. Eliot, who appears in none of the three PennSound pages the census saved.§35

👥 Who runs it

  • Directors: Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis, Chris Mustazza; editor Michael S. Hennessey; two other descriptions list two directors.5↘
    It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, whose site lists it among the Center's programs beside the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo, under the Center's director, Al Filreis; PennSound itself is directed by Charles Bernstein, Filreis and Chris Mustazza and edited by Michael S. Hennessey, with Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors.§4 Two other descriptions name two directors: the description on its YouTube channel lists Bernstein and Filreis as directors, Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and a profile on poets.org, posted in December 2006, calls Bernstein one of the site's two directors along with Filreis.§5 The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, where episode 84, with Gina Myers, is dated 1 April 2026 and the editor, Hennessey, presents episodes of his own; his retrospective podcast, PennSound Rewind, received its own page in March 2026 and is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org.§22 It works in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries; its About page thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center, UbuWeb's creator Kenneth Goldsmith is among its senior editors, and the census enters UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center and Jacket2 as its neighbours.§28 Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview, at a new address, gave PennSound as "the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present", with its host, its directors, its singles, its scope and its programs, and the Capture Registry found the host and the three directors exact and the Ruas collection carried, the 2005 launch left out.§34
  • Founded: 2005, by Filreis and Bernstein; the "iTunes for poetry".4↘
    It has been called the "iTunes for poetry", a phrase Wikipedia attributes to Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, and its running series of posts is PennSound Daily.§3 Filreis and Bernstein created it, and it was launched in 2005; an article on Penn Today under the title "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens by setting it against a recording industry that "may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it".§6 Its files are free to stream and download as MP3s and are intended for non-commercial use by anyone, teachers and libraries included; the description on its YouTube channel states the terms in full: "All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work."§25 Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview, at a new address, gave PennSound as "the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present", with its host, its directors, its singles, its scope and its programs, and the Capture Registry found the host and the three directors exact and the Ruas collection carried, the 2005 launch left out.§34

📜 Rules and terms

  • Manifesto: free, singles, every file named, retrievable "under the poet’s name".4↘
    The PennSound Manifesto, by Bernstein, sets six rules, among them that recordings be free and downloadable and broken down into singles, that all files be named, that bibliographic information be embedded in each file, and that sound files be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet's name and from search engines on the web; the About page links it and the launch press release.§9 The census records that a work is held under the poet's name on an author page and under a series name on series pages, such as Belladonna* and Love Jawns: A Mixtape, and that the saved pages state no policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names.§10 The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so that a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither, and its filing rule is the poet's name, with no evidence beyond the names it files under of whether a chosen name is kept as given.§14 It found the separate credits absent: the composition files everything under author pages, "individual catalogs for thousands of writers", in keeping with the manifesto's rule of the poet's name, and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another, the feature that makes PennSound a row of the census; the registry's analysis calls the archive composed accurately at its grain.§36
  • Terms: noncommercial and educational use only; writers and artists keep all copyrights; rights per recording unstated in the census's sources.2↘
    Its files are free to stream and download as MP3s and are intended for non-commercial use by anyone, teachers and libraries included; the description on its YouTube channel states the terms in full: "All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work."§25 The census, reading its site pages and its encyclopedia article, records the rights terms of individual recordings as not stated, counts who holds the rights to a recording among the questions the resource does not answer, and leaves any rights or permissions statement unchecked.§26
  • Limits: documentation added over time; Ruas collection under construction.3↘
    Its recordings come from the poets themselves, from universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, and from poets' estates, and it states the limit of its record: "We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time," with supplements invited.§19 A 2006 profile reported the manifesto's commitment to recordings "with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible" and called the archive committed to dates and documentation for all of its recordings; the census counts complete bibliographic data for every recording among what the resource does not answer.§20 Its newest collection, announced on 27 March 2026, is a home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 1970s, 1980s and 2000s, launched with hundreds of recordings and "still under construction"; the Eric Mottram Centennial Collection is another.§21

📻 Programs

  • Collections: Charles Ruas's radio programming (March 2026); Eric Mottram Centennial Collection.2↘
    Its newest collection, announced on 27 March 2026, is a home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 1970s, 1980s and 2000s, launched with hundreds of recordings and "still under construction"; the Eric Mottram Centennial Collection is another.§21 Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview, at a new address, gave PennSound as "the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present", with its host, its directors, its singles, its scope and its programs, and the Capture Registry found the host and the three directors exact and the Ruas collection carried, the 2005 launch left out.§34
  • Podcasts: produced by Filreis at the Kelly Writers House; PennSound Rewind; PoemTalk with the Poetry Foundation.2↘
    The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, where episode 84, with Gina Myers, is dated 1 April 2026 and the editor, Hennessey, presents episodes of his own; his retrospective podcast, PennSound Rewind, received its own page in March 2026 and is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org.§22 With the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation it sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast discussing a different poet or poem each show.§23
  • Active: listings to July 2026; publicly funded.2↘
    The census records it as active, with PennSound Daily posts from November 2025 to March 2026, and the newest listing on its home page is George Quasha reading genius foci at Barrytown, New York, on 14 July 2026.§24 A March 2026 post on its home page counts PennSound among "publicly funded distribution platforms" and presents the kind of programming that is lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is "suddenly cut for political reasons".§27

🔗 Around it

  • Neighbours: Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2.2↘
    The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, where episode 84, with Gina Myers, is dated 1 April 2026 and the editor, Hennessey, presents episodes of his own; his retrospective podcast, PennSound Rewind, received its own page in March 2026 and is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org.§22 It works in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries; its About page thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center, UbuWeb's creator Kenneth Goldsmith is among its senior editors, and the census enters UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center and Jacket2 as its neighbours.§28
  • Elsewhere: poets.org, ModPo, X, YouTube.4↘
    Its own YouTube channel calls it a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet, and its Instagram account the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.§2 Others describe it in their own terms: poets.org in 2006 as "a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one"; ModPo, the site of a course in modern and contemporary American poetry, as "the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems"; and its own X account, joined in March 2009, as an "audio & video archive of poetry & poetics" associated with the Kelly Writers House.§29 On YouTube its channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos; a one-minute video titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound" is on The Brainwaves Video Anthology's channel, and two longer videos, of 51:52 on PennSound's channel and 54:21 on a channel named Jerry Inspired, carry no title beyond the platform's name.§30 By the census's account the resource answers whether a recording of a named poet is held, who performs a recording where the performer differs from the author, and which reading series and events it has recorded, and it leaves unanswered how an author who writes under several names is filed; the census leaves the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves to later reading, and Wikipedia's article, the field's encyclopedia source, was last edited on 22 September 2026.§33

📚 The archive's reading

  • Question: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed.2↘
    PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives: a poetry website and online archive that hosts free, downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work, and of others' work.§1 The leesharks.com authorship census, which admits a resource that gathers and holds many works or records and says what it holds, enters PennSound as an empirical comparator in the areas of avant-garde and experimental archives and of attribution and credit, and asks of it how authored performance is recorded: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed, with performer and author credited apart.§31
  • Heteronymy: the civil name as attribution's unit; performance, translation and collaboration outside heteronymy; collapse as loss (#940).3↘
    The archive's paper on heteronymy holds that a civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern scholarly, literary, institutional and platform production, copyright among them, and it distinguishes the pseudonym, which changes the label attached to an authorial function, from the heteronym, which changes the organization of the function itself.§11 In the archive's account of heteronymy, ordinary translation, role-playing "understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization" and collaborative authorship that constitutes no distinct heteronym fall outside the concept, and a heteronymic architecture is said to make a collapse of plural functions register as loss; the census, for its part, tags PennSound as not limited to the poet's own voice.§15 The census's anchors are the archive's paper on heteronymy and its essay on the existence tax, and its organizing question asks how authorship is made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained across persons, personas, collectives and machine participation, and what is lost when those relations are collapsed.§32
  • Unanswered: rights; full bibliography; an author with several names.4↘
    In the archive's account of heteronymy, ordinary translation, role-playing "understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization" and collaborative authorship that constitutes no distinct heteronym fall outside the concept, and a heteronymic architecture is said to make a collapse of plural functions register as loss; the census, for its part, tags PennSound as not limited to the poet's own voice.§15 A 2006 profile reported the manifesto's commitment to recordings "with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible" and called the archive committed to dates and documentation for all of its recordings; the census counts complete bibliographic data for every recording among what the resource does not answer.§20 The census, reading its site pages and its encyclopedia article, records the rights terms of individual recordings as not stated, counts who holds the rights to a recording among the questions the resource does not answer, and leaves any rights or permissions statement unchecked.§26 By the census's account the resource answers whether a recording of a named poet is held, who performs a recording where the performer differs from the author, and which reading series and events it has recorded, and it leaves unanswered how an author who writes under several names is filed; the census leaves the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves to later reading, and Wikipedia's article, the field's encyclopedia source, was last edited on 22 September 2026.§33

🔍 At the name

  • Overview: host and directors exact; Ruas carried; credits apart and 2005 absent (Capture Registry).4↘
    Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview, at a new address, gave PennSound as "the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present", with its host, its directors, its singles, its scope and its programs, and the Capture Registry found the host and the three directors exact and the Ruas collection carried, the 2005 launch left out.§34 The registry traces the count to the Instagram card and Wikipedia's "Well over 50,000 sound files", and the year 1913 to Apollinaire's recording, and notes that the composition calls all the files recordings and names T.S. Eliot, who appears in none of the three PennSound pages the census saved.§35 It found the separate credits absent: the composition files everything under author pages, "individual catalogs for thousands of writers", in keeping with the manifesto's rule of the poet's name, and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another, the feature that makes PennSound a row of the census; the registry's analysis calls the archive composed accurately at its grain.§36 The registry scored the composition's provenance at 0.25, the three directors and the Center named and the sources carded, and records PennSound as an external resource entered in the census on 1 November 2026 with its own pages saved by hash.§37
1how recordings are filed: author, series, anthology and singles pagespoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets5 claims · B1, B5, B9, LS
  • F1 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound' documented · field
    Inside PennSound … Authors … Series … Anthologies/Collections/Groups … PennSound Daily archive … Singles … Close Listening … Cinema … Classics
  • F36 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s2 documented · field
    Unlike many poetry audio archives, PennSound's collection is organized into "singles"—individual poems rather than larger, harder-to-download recordings of complete readings.
  • F44 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post of March 1, 2022 documented · field
    PennSound is now making available the segmented audio recording of Doug Kearney’s presentation/reading
  • LS-09 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['unit'] documented
    a recording, broken down into singles (one poem) with complete readings also kept, filed on an author page, a series page, an anthology/collection/group page, the singles archive, Cinema, Podcasts or Classics
  • LS-18 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['holdings.0'] documented
    author pages, series pages, anthologies/collections/groups, singles, Cinema, Classics, podcasts (PennSound Podcasts, PoemTalk, PennSound Rewind)
2scope and period: historic to contemporarypoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets6 claims · B1, B3, B5, LS
  • F2 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
  • F26 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s3 documented · field
    including historic recordings by poets such as Ezra Pound , Wallace Stevens , Guillaume Apollinaire , William Carlos Williams and H.D. , as well as more recent recordings by poets such as Allen Ginsberg , John Ashbery , Jack Spicer , Gertrude Stein , and Lyn Hejinian
  • F29 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, Classics documented · field
    PennSound also includes readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer , John Milton , Alexander Pope , and William Shakespeare .
  • F39 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s1 documented · field
    PennSound's bountiful collection features both emerging and canonical poets with an emphasis on the experimental and adventurous.
  • LS-10 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record_object'] documented
    recordings of poets, historical and contemporary (the home page's selections run from Apollinaire, 1913, to work of 2016), readings and talks at the Kelly Writers House and reading series, radio programming (the Charles Ruas collection, 1970s to 2000s), poetry-and-music albums, video and podcasts
  • LS-16 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['coverage'] documented
    not stated; recordings from the United States and elsewhere (Apollinaire, Khlebnikov, Schwitters, Bennett among the home page's selections) … recordings from the 1910s onward; the project since 2005 (Wikipedia, third party)
3author and performer credited apart#940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-N · 2026-07-019 claims · #940, B1, LS
  • F3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54):
  • F4 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Hannah Weiner, from Clairvoyant Journal , performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut (2001) (6:12):
  • F5 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Velimir Khlebnikov, "Incantation by Laughter" (1910), tr. and performed by Bernstein
  • F6 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Kurt Schwitters, "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Scwhitter (1922-1932)
  • F7 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, after the Historical list documented · field
    Selected by Charles Bernstein
  • F11 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily (the Nielsen post) documented · field
    with the exception of "Self-Organizing Networks," where the music and performance is by Christopher Reiner (and included with permission).
  • LS-11 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.keeps'] interpretation
    poets' readings of their own work and of others' work, with the performer named beside the author where they differ (John Clare's 'Vowelless Letter' performed by Charles Bernstein; Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin and Rochelle Kraut); co-composers credited (music by Christopher Reiner, 'included with permission')
  • LS-14 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.function'] interpretation
    authorship and performance credited apart: the author is named first and the performer after 'performed by' (Clare by Bernstein; Weiner with Mattlin and Kraut); a co-composer is credited for music and performance, 'included with permission'; the manifesto, per Wikipedia (third party), requires every file to be named and retrievable under the poet's name; responsibility for the rights of a recording is not stated
  • O940-03 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §6 Ethical conditions and operational boundary, the list of what is typically not heteronymic stipulation
    Ordinary translation, where the translator's authorial function is not distinct from the translation role … Role-playing, where the role is understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization … Collaborative authorship, where multiple civil bearers contribute but no distinct heteronym is constituted
4collections and programs: the Ruas collection, podcasts, PoemTalkCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound7 claims · B1, B2, B3, LS
  • F8 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' (Posted 3/27/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/27/2026 … Today we're happy to announce a new home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 70s, 80s, and 00s. … this collection at launch features hundreds of recordings
  • F10 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' (Posted 3/11/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/11/2026 … Michael S. Hennessey's new, retrospective podcast fittingly named PennSound Rewind now has a dedicated page here at PennSound.
  • F14 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, footer documented · field
    PENNSOUND PODCASTS are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House
  • F15 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, first entry documented · field
    Gina Myers … PennSound Podcast #84 … April 1, 2026
  • F27 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Podcasts documented · field
    in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House and The Poetry Foundation , PennSound sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast that features a discussion of a different poet or poem each show.
  • LS-19 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['holdings.1'] documented
    the Charles Ruas collection of radio programming, launched 2026-03-27 with hundreds of recordings
  • LS-20 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['holdings.2'] documented
    the Eric Mottram Centennial Collection
5stated limits: documentation added over time; the Ruas collection under constructionCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound3 claims · B1, B13, LS
  • F9 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' documented · field
    The collection is still under construction and over time will see more additions and improvements
  • F52 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶2 documented · field
    We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time. Please contact us if you can supplement the information already provided.
  • LS-21 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['stated_limits'] self-description
    We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time' … the Charles Ruas collection 'is still under construction and over time will see more additions and improvements
6lifecycle: active, recordings listed to July 2026Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound3 claims · B1, LS
  • F12 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, New at PennSound documented · field
    George Quasha reading genius foci , Barrytown, NY, July 14, 2026
  • LS-27 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['lifecycle'] documented
    active … launched 2005 (Wikipedia, third party); PennSound Daily posts dated 11/12/2025 to 3/27/2026; the New at PennSound list includes a reading dated July 14, 2026
  • LS-29 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['version_and_time'] documented
    latest_daily_post": "2026-03-27" … "latest_listed_recording": "2026-07-14" … "wikipedia_edited": "2026-09-22
7funding: a publicly funded distribution platformCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound1 claim · B1
  • F13 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' documented · field
    programming that get lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is suddenly cut for political reasons … the kind of valuable content hosted by publicly funded distribution platforms like PennSound
8directors and editorspoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets8 claims · B13, B14, B2, B3, B4, B5, LS
  • F16 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, #82 'Before and After Christmas' documented · field
    PennSound Editor Michael Hennessey is back to spread a little holiday cheer
  • F20 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s3–s4 documented · field
    PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis , Charles Bernstein and Chris Mustazza. … It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania .
  • F33 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, closing lines documented · field
    Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, Directors … Michael S. Hennessey, Managing Editor … Mark P. Lindsay, Managing Director
  • F37 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s3 documented · field
    In addition to readings, PennSound features a collection of lectures, interviews and talk shows hosted by Charles Bernstein, one of the site's two directors along with Al Filreis.
  • F48 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — CPCW home page (named in T's body by the link 'Kelly Writers House'), CPCW home page, site title and navigation documented · field
    CPCW – Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing … Kelly Writers House Events … PennSound … ModPo … Director Al Filreis
  • F50 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview documented · field
    PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
  • F51 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People documented · field
    Charles Bernstein , Al Filreis , and Chris Mustazza , Directors … Michael S. Hennessey , Editor … Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith , Senior Editors
  • LS-03 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['operator'] documented
    the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania; directors Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and Chris Mustazza, editor Michael S. Hennessey
9what it is: a project producing and preserving poetry audio; an online archive of recordingsWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia6 claims · B13, B3, B4, LS
  • F17 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work.
  • F31 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet.
  • F49 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.
  • LS-01 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['kind'] stipulation
    ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives; Wikipedia (third party) calls it a poetry website and online archive of recordings of poets reading their own work
  • LS-06 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record_type'] stipulation
    project
  • LS-08 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['evidence_kind'] documented
    audio recording … catalogue … critical commentary
10size: recordings and sound filesWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia4 claims · B3, B8, LS
  • F18 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s2 documented · field
    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.
  • F19 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 documented · field
    Well over 50,000 sound files [ 4 ] are available for streaming and downloading
  • F42 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos, card 8 snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound is the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.
  • LS-17 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['count.value'] documented
    not stated on PennSound's own saved pages; Wikipedia (third party) gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings and, in another sentence, well over 50,000 sound files
11founding: 2005Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia3 claims · B3, B6, LS
  • F21 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox documented · field
    Creators … Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein … Launched … 2005
  • F40 Penn Today — PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download | Penn Today, card 6 title and snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download PHILADELPHIA-- The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it
  • LS-28 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['founded'] documented
    2005 (Wikipedia, third party)
12namesWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia2 claims · B3, LS
  • F22 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Described as the “iTunes for poetry” by co-director Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, PennSound provides all of its recordings in the form of free downloadable MP3s .
  • LS-02 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['aka'] documented
    PennSound Daily … the 'iTunes for poetry' (Charles Bernstein, as Wikipedia reports)
13terms of use and rightsWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia5 claims · B3, B4, LS
  • F23 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2 documented · field
    The files are intended to be used non-commercially by anyone interested in listening to them, and are furthermore available for use by teachers and libraries.
  • F32 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, ¶2 documented · field
    All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work.
  • LS-13 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.holder'] interpretation
    the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at Penn; recordings provided by the poets themselves, universities and institutions and poets' estates (Wikipedia, third party); free to download, for non-commercial use (Wikipedia, third party); the rights terms of individual recordings are not stated in the saved sources
  • LS-25 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['data_access'] documented
    free streaming and MP3 download; a search box; author, series, singles and anthology indexes
  • LS-26 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['license'] documented
    not stated on PennSound's saved pages; Wikipedia (third party) states the files are intended for non-commercial use
14the manifesto: singles, named files, the poet's nameWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia2 claims · B13, B3
  • F24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · field
    PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web.
  • F54 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview, links documented · field
    View the press release from PennSound's launch. … Read the PennSound Manifesto
15provenance of the recordings and their documentationpoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets3 claims · B3, B5, LS
  • F25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · field
    generously provided to PennSound from the poets themselves, universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room , and from poets' estates. … Recordings are broken down into singles, or song length recordings of individual poems. … Complete readings are also available.
  • F38 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶3 s1–s2 documented · field
    declares the project's commitment to regularly produce free, downloadable poetry recordings, in universal formats, with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible. … As an archive, PennSound is committed to providing dates and documentation for all of its recordings
  • LS-15 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['method'] documented
    producing new recordings (Kelly Writers House events, Close Listening and other series) and preserving existing audio archives given by poets, institutions, estates and collectors; segmenting readings into singles; adding bibliographic documentation over time, with users invited to supplement it
16neighbours: collaborators and thanksWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia3 claims · B13, B3, LS
  • F28 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Collaboration documented · field
    PennSound works closely in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House , UbuWeb , The Electronic Poetry Center , Jacket2 magazine, The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
  • F53 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People, closing thanks documented · field
    to UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center.
  • LS-31 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['relations'] documented
    "target": "ubuweb" … "target": "epc" … "target": "jacket2" … PennSound Rewind is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org (the home page)
17reception: the encyclopediaWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia1 claim · B3
  • F30 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer documented · field
    This page was last edited on 22 September 2026, at 03:16 (UTC) .
18on video platformsYouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52)4 claims · B10, B11, B12, B4
  • F34 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, card 4 snippet documented · field
    2.16K subscribers•338 videos
  • F45 YouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52), card 10 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·PennSound … 51:52 … YouTube
  • F46 YouTube·The Brainwaves Video Anthology — Charles Bernstein - PennSound (video, 1m), card 11 (the rail's title) documented · field
    Charles Bernstein - PennSound
  • F47 YouTube·Jerry Inspired — YouTube (video, 54:21), card 12 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·Jerry Inspired … 54:21 … YouTube
19described by otherspoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets3 claims · B5, B7, B9
  • F35 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Based out of the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one.
  • F41 X — PennSound - X, X profile (card 7 snippet; B7.txt profile text) documented · field
    audio & video archive of poetry & poetics … Associated with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. … Joined March 2009 … 3,607 posts
  • F43 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post 'PennSound authors' (September 4, 2018) documented · field
    PennSound, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems, has a very extensive alphabetical listing of authors included in the archive.
20the census's question: authored performanceLS6 claims · LS
  • LS-04 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['areas'] interpretation
    avant-garde-archives … attribution-and-credit
  • LS-05 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['host_relation'] interpretation
    empirical comparator
  • LS-07 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['question'] interpretation
    authored performance: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed, with performer and author credited apart
  • LS-33 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json (top) organizing_question stipulation
    How is authorship made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained across persons, personas, collectives and machine participation, and what is lost when those relations are collapsed?
  • LS-34 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json (top) admission_rule stipulation
    A row is an aggregator: a resource that gathers and holds many other works or records and says what it holds (operator, 2026-11-01).
  • LS-35 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json (top) anchor documented
    "deposit": 940 … "deposit": 1722
21under whose name: the poet's name, a series name#940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-N · 2026-07-013 claims · #940, LS
  • LS-12 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['record.name'] interpretation
    under the poet's name on an author page; Wikipedia (third party) reports the manifesto's rule that sound files be indexed and retrievable 'under the poet's name'; the saved sources state no policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names; series pages hold work under a series name (Belladonna*, Love Jawns: A Mixtape)
  • O940-01 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §1 The political-semantic condition ¶2 s1–s6 interpretation
    A civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern legitimacy in scholarly, literary, institutional, and platform-mediated production. … Copyright attaches to legal names.
  • O940-02 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §2 The heteronymic operation, distinguished ¶2 stipulation
    A pseudonym changes the label attached to an authorial function. A heteronym changes the organization of the authorial function itself.
22what it answers and does not answerLS4 claims · LS
  • LS-22 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['answers'] interpretation
    whether a recording of a named poet is held, on that poet's author page or a series page … who performs a given recording where the performer differs from the author … which reading series and events PennSound has recorded or archived
  • LS-23 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['does_not_answer'] interpretation
    who holds the rights to a recording (not stated in the saved sources) … complete bibliographic data for every recording (documentation is added over time) … how an author who writes under several names is filed (no naming policy in the saved sources)
  • LS-30 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['negative_tags'] interpretation
    NOT a commercial service: free download (Wikipedia, third party: commercial 'No') … NOT a complete bibliography of the recordings: documentation is added over time … NOT a rights clearance record: the saved sources state no rights terms per recording … NOT limited to the poet's own voice: some recordings are performances of one author's work by another
  • LS-32 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['unchecked'] documented
    the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves … the PennSound Manifesto and the launch press release (linked from the About page; the manifesto is known here only from Wikipedia) … any rights or permissions statement for the recordings
23the archive's reading: separate attributions#940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-N · 2026-07-012 claims · #940, LS
  • LS-24 LS leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: PennSound (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/pennsound), Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['ls_reading'] interpretation
    The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither. Its filing rule is the poet's name; whether a chosen name is kept as given is not shown beyond the names it files under.
  • O940-04 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01 v0.2: Heteronymy as Ethical Operation Against Civil-Name Reduction Lee Sharks · 2026-07-01 · §2, 'It interrupts extraction by making reduction visible as reduction.' interpretation
    It ensures that the collapse registers as loss — the plurality was maintained, the seams were declared, the reduction is visibly reduction rather than recovery of ground truth.
24the composition at the namecapture-registry10 claims · capture-registry
  • CAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, findings.0 documented
    HOST AND DIRECTORS EXACT. 'Co-directed by Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein, and Chris Mustazza.' … The new Charles Ruas collection is carried … The 2005 launch is not carried.
  • CAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, findings.1 documented
    THE COUNT. 'over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present' follows the Instagram card and the saved article's 'Well over 50,000 sound files', and the 1913 the home page's 'Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913)'. … the composition calls all the files recordings. Of the four poets it names in its scope, T.S. Eliot appears in none of the three saved PennSound pages.
  • CAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, findings.2 documented
    THE CREDITS NOT CARRIED. The census row reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type, where author, performer and co-composer are credited apart … The composition files everything under 'Author Pages: Extensive, individual catalogs for thousands of writers', matching the manifesto rule the article reports … and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another.
  • CAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, reading interpretation
    The innocent reading first. Asked for the name, the Overview says what the archive is, where it is based, who directs it, how its files are cut and what it runs.
  • CAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, analysis interpretation
    The archive composed accurately at its grain, with its directors and its newest collection carried. The feature that makes it a census row, a performer and a co-composer credited beside the author, is absent.
  • CAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, mt documented
    THE ARCHIVE AND ITS DIRECTORS EXACT; THE CHARLES RUAS COLLECTION OF 2026 CARRIED; ITS CREDITING OF PERFORMER APART FROM AUTHOR NOT CARRIED
  • CAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, q_kind documented
    the census name; NEW address.
  • CAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry pennsound-aio-20261101 (OBS-f07a679cb7c8, AXN:0B88.CAPTURE.🎪⭕✨🧡🌕▲) Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · pennsound-aio-20261101, per_note documented
    The three directors and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing named; sources carded.
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    'PennSound is the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present.' … Twelve cards: CPCW, Jacket2, Wikipedia, YouTube (four), poets.org, Penn Today, X, Instagram, ModPo.
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AIO's transcript, a record · PennSound · Google AI Overview (expanded) · 208 words · 12 cards
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[QUERENT] PennSound

[SYSTEM] [PennSound](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXAHrOzAViuA3Bb-ryGiQsu9iGuJgHNnG5WkQ2UgcoVHsWm9po_1c2DpsRRcxQIzDtfa0-l8pJXFLqNNHqgNjYpsOEW1hRjeFkBc5_26JQndUzdySDKfcdRC8BoRX) is the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXwHrOzAVqw-UL9Z3DzIo9LN9uX05R0Cbcmj80blqRglty7MWZk2yIMgmiJlfs5v-yQ7q-9vsdjwvUMNTDCTK8pFsp3gyh4C57_hYz_5da0XquFMnJSscuLZf_5cqkNoq), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXAHrOzAVH0ikNxz1kR0rHwsNCi5tGBgETURJR7ej4Em4lZ89BVvSDREVxjLWVyyNh_Prxe7XKTU6dVVgOGZmprHvQkB5kQ99jjIcswkqva5gQfPGVT_KoenMu68U)]
Overview & Mission

* Host & Location: Based at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) and associated with the [Kelly Writers House](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUgHrOzAVr8uUV5erVkfAVbOIkt_HVL3Up84WQN9vwxjtmjBbov1j_HnxN4uWPrt6wtISDGkGukw1FCER9nw2EnVW9YrBwEXLPGR9eimpxfzQiPE). [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESTwHrOzAVltkE_lW1mx6eejYsMiZVJZ0rKA7Hq8hDrDtr_TmSGvQ8iQrlPB5md1RslxqnspV6g_4rUYhNI34qJ0oq9O6IUWsrq1g-jRzIOqE), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXwHrOzAVqw-UL9Z3DzIo9LN9uX05R0Cbcmj80blqRglty7MWZk2yIMgmiJlfs5v-yQ7q-9vsdjwvUMNTDCTK8pFsp3gyh4C57_hYz_5da0XquFMnJSscuLZf_5cqkNoq)]
* Directors: Co-directed by Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein, and Chris Mustazza. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXwHrOzAVqw-UL9Z3DzIo9LN9uX05R0Cbcmj80blqRglty7MWZk2yIMgmiJlfs5v-yQ7q-9vsdjwvUMNTDCTK8pFsp3gyh4C57_hYz_5da0XquFMnJSscuLZf_5cqkNoq)]
* Format: Emphasizes individual poem "singles" rather than just full-length readings, making files easy to stream and download as MP3s for free. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWAHrOzAVLvqGRzeZL34BJ98RVjge0UCXcpTeuCWKVB7umrjMv3Fc1PcLentKXFfhcSsTzTpDlAA0bgcIctSi-d2X1XQPqE6g7gkUAmCnCIlhXgpPPB7-WQY), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEShAEB6zswFeqLwQDlMl4KL47Pqgcvbr0KacULWztoV4NYgi6fTJmssq2gBKac3YEokPIMpQeGzrHB9gkZzpSS0qthCJo6lUm4BjsDsGCOJanZP2iqtzBy98yhKJYA1mP46vxX8cUHBarlgfxjeQ8a51GK3-UruFgpf06lqMexfr7oSHIThTg)]
* Scope: Includes early canonical and modernist voices (such as William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, and T.S. Eliot) alongside contemporary, experimental, and international poets. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESaAHrOzAV16_iHR6kpCYhyRowlctvZ1OmDF56gZrNjLV5yvymSIj9w17kX1G4BTDHSpev0bFFDeAjjiCAua6VDNOlxh3etgHJ6XSkEQ_eKKV1koKLCH7DGC1LprB6em8kARBDSR8ngvSi), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESYwHrOzAV2PbBJDYYjVl4-bHiksGOs0Zhvas3WiaUPp67Pd8HNF8I8cLSduA8h9u5kovkrWSGMDPLDupcx5zaK6hWia-d9jmtHKCje9VKtf5uPmG021Ut3u2kUDctG6xuAtBSKQ)]

Key Features & Programs

* Author Pages: Extensive, individual catalogs for thousands of writers, including recent additions like the [Charles Ruas Author Page](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXAHrOzAViuA3Bb-ryGiQsu9iGuJgHNnG5WkQ2UgcoVHsWm9po_1c2DpsRRcxQIzDtfa0-l8pJXFLqNNHqgNjYpsOEW1hRjeFkBc5_26JQndUzdySDKfcdRC8BoRX) featuring historical radio interviews. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXAHrOzAViuA3Bb-ryGiQsu9iGuJgHNnG5WkQ2UgcoVHsWm9po_1c2DpsRRcxQIzDtfa0-l8pJXFLqNNHqgNjYpsOEW1hRjeFkBc5_26JQndUzdySDKfcdRC8BoRX), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXQHrOzAVJaCwBAImGTgyfqB-pG1RmuDhApcfGEkvZuyA1_Km9fFugEUaOpx6r-aC_IMZG3tWuPT1HC5e-X7oM8vxgSTq5ODvSXu39L01Ba_f5iWz2SWoXwKriBGyiw)]
* PennSound Podcasts: Regular audio programming produced at the Kelly Writers House, including series like PennSound Rewind hosted by Michael Hennessey. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESVgHrOzAVCNk06QnuW6TsYqfO2zWQnUCsGNnr4sg0VnPaIwLz9oFxZNLGGm39TcuucB7vBH6xLkFw3FTX19V8yAHSKCwfQYu4Jgwh_yWokfCZ-n8p8Gur), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXAHrOzAViuA3Bb-ryGiQsu9iGuJgHNnG5WkQ2UgcoVHsWm9po_1c2DpsRRcxQIzDtfa0-l8pJXFLqNNHqgNjYpsOEW1hRjeFkBc5_26JQndUzdySDKfcdRC8BoRX)]
* PoemTalk: A co-produced podcast series (with Jacket2) featuring roundtable discussions on individual poems from the archive. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESYwHrOzAVP7XHdT7Kcv3S2FuxEG0P1g7iBYPV3kMmNun-D-KPKLeADEZFQSwO4p0MJgTlh00h2XKaHBp6oYcSoFkOYYXt_MmTH7uxu2K-rllfpceIsNwOSrvY-u78UrpCJUbISw), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESVgHrOzAVCNk06QnuW6TsYqfO2zWQnUCsGNnr4sg0VnPaIwLz9oFxZNLGGm39TcuucB7vBH6xLkFw3FTX19V8yAHSKCwfQYu4Jgwh_yWokfCZ-n8p8Gur)]
* Archive Access: All audio files are open-access and noncommercial. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWQHrOzAVNuKKmLMdOsdQZOW-AKyz-7T43Qn5nsnSYxoBSuISOWqtboHNGGzx8N-hHLWU9K-_ch7xV82Bt49XE1lmEt86PJkvmW4Vi7tKOUMbiqiwFlnseJ5D), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXwHrOzAVqw-UL9Z3DzIo9LN9uX05R0Cbcmj80blqRglty7MWZk2yIMgmiJlfs5v-yQ7q-9vsdjwvUMNTDCTK8pFsp3gyh4C57_hYz_5da0XquFMnJSscuLZf_5cqkNoq)]

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PennSound

PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives, and is described as a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. On YouTube PennSound describes itself as a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet; on Instagram, as the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present. Bernstein called it the "iTunes for poetry" in an Associated Press article, as Wikipedia reports, and every recording is a free downloadable MP3.

It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, which lists it with the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo under its director, Al Filreis; PennSound is directed by Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and Chris Mustazza, with Michael S. Hennessey as editor and Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors. The YouTube channel's description lists two directors, Bernstein and Filreis, with Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and poets.org's 2006 profile called Bernstein one of the site's two directors. Created by Filreis and Bernstein, it launched in 2005; a Penn Today article titled "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens on the recording industry.

Recordings sit on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, Close Listening and the PennSound Daily archive. Readings are broken down into singles, with complete readings available, and newly segmented readings are announced on ModPo; poets.org set the singles against many poetry audio archives. Its manifesto, by Bernstein, requires free downloadable recordings in singles, named files, embedded bibliographic information, and indexing under the poet's name in a library catalog and in web search; the About page links it and the launch press release.

The historical selection credits performers beside authors: Clare's "Vowelless Letter" performed by Bernstein, Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Mattlin and Kraut, Schwitters's "Ur Sonata" performed by Ernst Schwitters, and Khlebnikov translated and performed by Bernstein; one piece's music and performance are by Christopher Reiner, included with permission, and the selection is signed by Bernstein.

Its holdings include historic recordings by Pound, Stevens, Apollinaire, Williams and H.D., more recent ones by Ginsberg, Ashbery, Spicer, Stein and Hejinian, and classics from Greek poetry to Shakespeare, from Apollinaire's 1913 "Le Pont Mirabeau"; poets.org gave its emphasis as the experimental and adventurous. Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings and well over 50,000 sound files.

Recordings come from poets, institutions such as the Woodberry Poetry Room, and estates; documentation is added over time, as its About page states, and poets.org reported a commitment to dates and documentation for every recording.

The Charles Ruas collection of radio programming launched on 27 March 2026 with hundreds of recordings and is still under construction; PennSound Rewind, Hennessey's retrospective podcast, got its own page that March, and the newest listing is of 14 July 2026. The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, the newest being episode 84 of 1 April 2026, some presented by Hennessey; PoemTalk is sponsored with the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation.

The files are for non-commercial use, by teachers and libraries among others, and the YouTube channel adds that the recordings are for noncommercial and educational use only and that the writers and artists retain all copyrights. A March 2026 post calls PennSound a publicly funded distribution platform and names programming lost when funding is cut for political reasons.

It collaborates with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center and the Penn Libraries, and thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center.

poets.org called it a free online gallery, archive and radio show; ModPo, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems; its X account, joined in 2009, an audio and video archive of poetry and poetics associated with the Kelly Writers House. Its YouTube channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos, and three video cards stand beside it, one titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound"; its Wikipedia article was last edited on 22 September 2026.

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1.PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives, and is described as a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work.2
  • F49 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.
  • F17 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work.
2.On YouTube PennSound describes itself as a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet; on Instagram, as the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.2
  • F31 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet.
  • F42 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos, card 8 snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound is the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.
3.Bernstein called it the "iTunes for poetry" in an Associated Press article, as Wikipedia reports, and every recording is a free downloadable MP3.1
  • F22 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Described as the “iTunes for poetry” by co-director Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, PennSound provides all of its recordings in the form of free downloadable MP3s .
4.It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, which lists it with the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo under its director, Al Filreis; PennSound is directed by Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and Chris Mustazza, with Michael S. Hennessey as editor and Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors.4
  • F50 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview documented · field
    PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
  • F51 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People documented · field
    Charles Bernstein , Al Filreis , and Chris Mustazza , Directors … Michael S. Hennessey , Editor … Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith , Senior Editors
  • F20 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s3–s4 documented · field
    PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis , Charles Bernstein and Chris Mustazza. … It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania .
  • F48 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — CPCW home page (named in T's body by the link 'Kelly Writers House'), CPCW home page, site title and navigation documented · field
    CPCW – Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing … Kelly Writers House Events … PennSound … ModPo … Director Al Filreis
5.The YouTube channel's description lists two directors, Bernstein and Filreis, with Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and poets.org's 2006 profile called Bernstein one of the site's two directors.2
  • F33 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, closing lines documented · field
    Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, Directors … Michael S. Hennessey, Managing Editor … Mark P. Lindsay, Managing Director
  • F37 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s3 documented · field
    In addition to readings, PennSound features a collection of lectures, interviews and talk shows hosted by Charles Bernstein, one of the site's two directors along with Al Filreis.
6.Created by Filreis and Bernstein, it launched in 2005; a Penn Today article titled "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens on the recording industry.2
  • F21 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox documented · field
    Creators … Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein … Launched … 2005
  • F40 Penn Today — PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download | Penn Today, card 6 title and snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download PHILADELPHIA-- The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it
7.Recordings sit on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, Close Listening and the PennSound Daily archive.1
  • F1 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound' documented · field
    Inside PennSound … Authors … Series … Anthologies/Collections/Groups … PennSound Daily archive … Singles … Close Listening … Cinema … Classics
8.Readings are broken down into singles, with complete readings available, and newly segmented readings are announced on ModPo; poets.org set the singles against many poetry audio archives.3
  • F25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · field
    generously provided to PennSound from the poets themselves, universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room , and from poets' estates. … Recordings are broken down into singles, or song length recordings of individual poems. … Complete readings are also available.
  • F36 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s2 documented · field
    Unlike many poetry audio archives, PennSound's collection is organized into "singles"—individual poems rather than larger, harder-to-download recordings of complete readings.
  • F44 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post of March 1, 2022 documented · field
    PennSound is now making available the segmented audio recording of Doug Kearney’s presentation/reading
9.Its manifesto, by Bernstein, requires free downloadable recordings in singles, named files, embedded bibliographic information, and indexing under the poet's name in a library catalog and in web search; the About page links it and the launch press release.2
  • F24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · field
    PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web.
  • F54 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview, links documented · field
    View the press release from PennSound's launch. … Read the PennSound Manifesto
10.The historical selection credits performers beside authors: Clare's "Vowelless Letter" performed by Bernstein, Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Mattlin and Kraut, Schwitters's "Ur Sonata" performed by Ernst Schwitters, and Khlebnikov translated and performed by Bernstein; one piece's music and performance are by Christopher Reiner, included with permission, and the selection is signed by Bernstein.6
  • F3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54):
  • F4 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Hannah Weiner, from Clairvoyant Journal , performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut (2001) (6:12):
  • F6 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Kurt Schwitters, "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Scwhitter (1922-1932)
  • F5 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Velimir Khlebnikov, "Incantation by Laughter" (1910), tr. and performed by Bernstein
  • F11 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily (the Nielsen post) documented · field
    with the exception of "Self-Organizing Networks," where the music and performance is by Christopher Reiner (and included with permission).
  • F7 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, after the Historical list documented · field
    Selected by Charles Bernstein
11.Its holdings include historic recordings by Pound, Stevens, Apollinaire, Williams and H.D., more recent ones by Ginsberg, Ashbery, Spicer, Stein and Hejinian, and classics from Greek poetry to Shakespeare, from Apollinaire's 1913 "Le Pont Mirabeau"; poets.org gave its emphasis as the experimental and adventurous.4
  • F26 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s3 documented · field
    including historic recordings by poets such as Ezra Pound , Wallace Stevens , Guillaume Apollinaire , William Carlos Williams and H.D. , as well as more recent recordings by poets such as Allen Ginsberg , John Ashbery , Jack Spicer , Gertrude Stein , and Lyn Hejinian
  • F29 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, Classics documented · field
    PennSound also includes readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer , John Milton , Alexander Pope , and William Shakespeare .
  • F2 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
  • F39 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s1 documented · field
    PennSound's bountiful collection features both emerging and canonical poets with an emphasis on the experimental and adventurous.
12.Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings and well over 50,000 sound files.2
  • F18 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s2 documented · field
    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.
  • F19 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 documented · field
    Well over 50,000 sound files [ 4 ] are available for streaming and downloading
13.Recordings come from poets, institutions such as the Woodberry Poetry Room, and estates; documentation is added over time, as its About page states, and poets.org reported a commitment to dates and documentation for every recording.3
  • F25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · field
    generously provided to PennSound from the poets themselves, universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room , and from poets' estates. … Recordings are broken down into singles, or song length recordings of individual poems. … Complete readings are also available.
  • F52 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶2 documented · field
    We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time. Please contact us if you can supplement the information already provided.
  • F38 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶3 s1–s2 documented · field
    declares the project's commitment to regularly produce free, downloadable poetry recordings, in universal formats, with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible. … As an archive, PennSound is committed to providing dates and documentation for all of its recordings
14.The Charles Ruas collection of radio programming launched on 27 March 2026 with hundreds of recordings and is still under construction; PennSound Rewind, Hennessey's retrospective podcast, got its own page that March, and the newest listing is of 14 July 2026.4
  • F8 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' (Posted 3/27/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/27/2026 … Today we're happy to announce a new home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 70s, 80s, and 00s. … this collection at launch features hundreds of recordings
  • F9 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' documented · field
    The collection is still under construction and over time will see more additions and improvements
  • F10 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' (Posted 3/11/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/11/2026 … Michael S. Hennessey's new, retrospective podcast fittingly named PennSound Rewind now has a dedicated page here at PennSound.
  • F12 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, New at PennSound documented · field
    George Quasha reading genius foci , Barrytown, NY, July 14, 2026
15.The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, the newest being episode 84 of 1 April 2026, some presented by Hennessey; PoemTalk is sponsored with the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation.4
  • F14 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, footer documented · field
    PENNSOUND PODCASTS are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House
  • F15 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, first entry documented · field
    Gina Myers … PennSound Podcast #84 … April 1, 2026
  • F16 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, #82 'Before and After Christmas' documented · field
    PennSound Editor Michael Hennessey is back to spread a little holiday cheer
  • F27 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Podcasts documented · field
    in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House and The Poetry Foundation , PennSound sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast that features a discussion of a different poet or poem each show.
16.The files are for non-commercial use, by teachers and libraries among others, and the YouTube channel adds that the recordings are for noncommercial and educational use only and that the writers and artists retain all copyrights.2
  • F23 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2 documented · field
    The files are intended to be used non-commercially by anyone interested in listening to them, and are furthermore available for use by teachers and libraries.
  • F32 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, ¶2 documented · field
    All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work.
17.A March 2026 post calls PennSound a publicly funded distribution platform and names programming lost when funding is cut for political reasons.1
  • F13 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' documented · field
    programming that get lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is suddenly cut for political reasons … the kind of valuable content hosted by publicly funded distribution platforms like PennSound
18.It collaborates with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center and the Penn Libraries, and thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center.2
  • F28 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Collaboration documented · field
    PennSound works closely in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House , UbuWeb , The Electronic Poetry Center , Jacket2 magazine, The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
  • F53 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People, closing thanks documented · field
    to UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center.
19.poets.org called it a free online gallery, archive and radio show; ModPo, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems; its X account, joined in 2009, an audio and video archive of poetry and poetics associated with the Kelly Writers House.3
  • F35 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Based out of the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one.
  • F43 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post 'PennSound authors' (September 4, 2018) documented · field
    PennSound, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems, has a very extensive alphabetical listing of authors included in the archive.
  • F41 X — PennSound - X, X profile (card 7 snippet; B7.txt profile text) documented · field
    audio & video archive of poetry & poetics … Associated with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. … Joined March 2009 … 3,607 posts
20.Its YouTube channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos, and three video cards stand beside it, one titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound"; its Wikipedia article was last edited on 22 September 2026.5
  • F34 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, card 4 snippet documented · field
    2.16K subscribers•338 videos
  • F45 YouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52), card 10 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·PennSound … 51:52 … YouTube
  • F46 YouTube·The Brainwaves Video Anthology — Charles Bernstein - PennSound (video, 1m), card 11 (the rail's title) documented · field
    Charles Bernstein - PennSound
  • F47 YouTube·Jerry Inspired — YouTube (video, 54:21), card 12 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·Jerry Inspired … 54:21 … YouTube
  • F30 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer documented · field
    This page was last edited on 22 September 2026, at 03:16 (UTC) .
Compression · The field's ontology — L_F(B)PennSound

PennSound is an ongoing project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, producing new audio recordings and preserving audio archives of poetry, free to stream and download.

🎙️ Holdings

  • Filing: author, series, anthology and singles pages; singles and complete readings.3↘
    Recordings sit on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, Close Listening and the PennSound Daily archive.§7 Readings are broken down into singles, with complete readings available, and newly segmented readings are announced on ModPo; poets.org set the singles against many poetry audio archives.§8 Recordings come from poets, institutions such as the Woodberry Poetry Room, and estates; documentation is added over time, as its About page states, and poets.org reported a commitment to dates and documentation for every recording.§13
  • Credits: performers named beside authors; a co-composer "included with permission".1↘
    The historical selection credits performers beside authors: Clare's "Vowelless Letter" performed by Bernstein, Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Mattlin and Kraut, Schwitters's "Ur Sonata" performed by Ernst Schwitters, and Khlebnikov translated and performed by Bernstein; one piece's music and performance are by Christopher Reiner, included with permission, and the selection is signed by Bernstein.§10
  • Scope and size: from 1913; over 1500 recordings, 50,000 sound files.3↘
    On YouTube PennSound describes itself as a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet; on Instagram, as the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.§2 Its holdings include historic recordings by Pound, Stevens, Apollinaire, Williams and H.D., more recent ones by Ginsberg, Ashbery, Spicer, Stein and Hejinian, and classics from Greek poetry to Shakespeare, from Apollinaire's 1913 "Le Pont Mirabeau"; poets.org gave its emphasis as the experimental and adventurous.§11 Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings and well over 50,000 sound files.§12

👥 People and terms

  • Directors: Bernstein, Filreis, Mustazza; editor Hennessey; launched 2005.5↘
    Bernstein called it the "iTunes for poetry" in an Associated Press article, as Wikipedia reports, and every recording is a free downloadable MP3.§3 It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, which lists it with the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo under its director, Al Filreis; PennSound is directed by Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and Chris Mustazza, with Michael S. Hennessey as editor and Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors.§4 The YouTube channel's description lists two directors, Bernstein and Filreis, with Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and poets.org's 2006 profile called Bernstein one of the site's two directors.§5 Created by Filreis and Bernstein, it launched in 2005; a Penn Today article titled "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens on the recording industry.§6 The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, the newest being episode 84 of 1 April 2026, some presented by Hennessey; PoemTalk is sponsored with the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation.§15
  • Manifesto: named files, retrievable under the poet's name.1↘
    Its manifesto, by Bernstein, requires free downloadable recordings in singles, named files, embedded bibliographic information, and indexing under the poet's name in a library catalog and in web search; the About page links it and the launch press release.§9
  • Terms: noncommercial and educational use; copyrights retained by writers and artists.1↘
    The files are for non-commercial use, by teachers and libraries among others, and the YouTube channel adds that the recordings are for noncommercial and educational use only and that the writers and artists retain all copyrights.§16
  • Limits: documentation added over time.2↘
    Recordings come from poets, institutions such as the Woodberry Poetry Room, and estates; documentation is added over time, as its About page states, and poets.org reported a commitment to dates and documentation for every recording.§13 The Charles Ruas collection of radio programming launched on 27 March 2026 with hundreds of recordings and is still under construction; PennSound Rewind, Hennessey's retrospective podcast, got its own page that March, and the newest listing is of 14 July 2026.§14

📻 Programs and neighbours

  • Programs: the Ruas collection, podcasts, PennSound Rewind, PoemTalk; publicly funded.3↘
    The Charles Ruas collection of radio programming launched on 27 March 2026 with hundreds of recordings and is still under construction; PennSound Rewind, Hennessey's retrospective podcast, got its own page that March, and the newest listing is of 14 July 2026.§14 The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, the newest being episode 84 of 1 April 2026, some presented by Hennessey; PoemTalk is sponsored with the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation.§15 A March 2026 post calls PennSound a publicly funded distribution platform and names programming lost when funding is cut for political reasons.§17
  • Around it: Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the EPC, Jacket2; poets.org, ModPo, X, YouTube.4↘
    On YouTube PennSound describes itself as a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet; on Instagram, as the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.§2 It collaborates with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center and the Penn Libraries, and thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center.§18 poets.org called it a free online gallery, archive and radio show; ModPo, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems; its X account, joined in 2009, an audio and video archive of poetry and poetics associated with the Kelly Writers House.§19 Its YouTube channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos, and three video cards stand beside it, one titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound"; its Wikipedia article was last edited on 22 September 2026.§20
1how recordings are filed: author, series, anthology and singles pagespoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets3 claims · B1, B5, B9
  • F1 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound' documented · field
    Inside PennSound … Authors … Series … Anthologies/Collections/Groups … PennSound Daily archive … Singles … Close Listening … Cinema … Classics
  • F36 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s2 documented · field
    Unlike many poetry audio archives, PennSound's collection is organized into "singles"—individual poems rather than larger, harder-to-download recordings of complete readings.
  • F44 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post of March 1, 2022 documented · field
    PennSound is now making available the segmented audio recording of Doug Kearney’s presentation/reading
2scope and period: historic to contemporarypoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets4 claims · B1, B3, B5
  • F2 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):
  • F26 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s3 documented · field
    including historic recordings by poets such as Ezra Pound , Wallace Stevens , Guillaume Apollinaire , William Carlos Williams and H.D. , as well as more recent recordings by poets such as Allen Ginsberg , John Ashbery , Jack Spicer , Gertrude Stein , and Lyn Hejinian
  • F29 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, Classics documented · field
    PennSound also includes readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer , John Milton , Alexander Pope , and William Shakespeare .
  • F39 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s1 documented · field
    PennSound's bountiful collection features both emerging and canonical poets with an emphasis on the experimental and adventurous.
3author and performer credited apartCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound6 claims · B1
  • F3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54):
  • F4 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Hannah Weiner, from Clairvoyant Journal , performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut (2001) (6:12):
  • F5 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Velimir Khlebnikov, "Incantation by Laughter" (1910), tr. and performed by Bernstein
  • F6 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · field
    Kurt Schwitters, "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Scwhitter (1922-1932)
  • F7 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, after the Historical list documented · field
    Selected by Charles Bernstein
  • F11 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily (the Nielsen post) documented · field
    with the exception of "Self-Organizing Networks," where the music and performance is by Christopher Reiner (and included with permission).
4collections and programs: the Ruas collection, podcasts, PoemTalkCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound5 claims · B1, B2, B3
  • F8 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' (Posted 3/27/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/27/2026 … Today we're happy to announce a new home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 70s, 80s, and 00s. … this collection at launch features hundreds of recordings
  • F10 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' (Posted 3/11/2026) documented · field
    Posted 3/11/2026 … Michael S. Hennessey's new, retrospective podcast fittingly named PennSound Rewind now has a dedicated page here at PennSound.
  • F14 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, footer documented · field
    PENNSOUND PODCASTS are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House
  • F15 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, first entry documented · field
    Gina Myers … PennSound Podcast #84 … April 1, 2026
  • F27 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Podcasts documented · field
    in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House and The Poetry Foundation , PennSound sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast that features a discussion of a different poet or poem each show.
5stated limits: documentation added over time; the Ruas collection under constructionCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound2 claims · B1, B13
  • F9 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' documented · field
    The collection is still under construction and over time will see more additions and improvements
  • F52 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶2 documented · field
    We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time. Please contact us if you can supplement the information already provided.
6lifecycle: active, recordings listed to July 2026Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound1 claim · B1
  • F12 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, New at PennSound documented · field
    George Quasha reading genius foci , Barrytown, NY, July 14, 2026
7funding: a publicly funded distribution platformCenter for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound1 claim · B1
  • F13 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' documented · field
    programming that get lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is suddenly cut for political reasons … the kind of valuable content hosted by publicly funded distribution platforms like PennSound
8directors and editorspoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets7 claims · B13, B14, B2, B3, B4, B5
  • F16 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, #82 'Before and After Christmas' documented · field
    PennSound Editor Michael Hennessey is back to spread a little holiday cheer
  • F20 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s3–s4 documented · field
    PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis , Charles Bernstein and Chris Mustazza. … It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania .
  • F33 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, closing lines documented · field
    Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, Directors … Michael S. Hennessey, Managing Editor … Mark P. Lindsay, Managing Director
  • F37 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s3 documented · field
    In addition to readings, PennSound features a collection of lectures, interviews and talk shows hosted by Charles Bernstein, one of the site's two directors along with Al Filreis.
  • F48 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — CPCW home page (named in T's body by the link 'Kelly Writers House'), CPCW home page, site title and navigation documented · field
    CPCW – Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing … Kelly Writers House Events … PennSound … ModPo … Director Al Filreis
  • F50 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview documented · field
    PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
  • F51 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People documented · field
    Charles Bernstein , Al Filreis , and Chris Mustazza , Directors … Michael S. Hennessey , Editor … Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith , Senior Editors
9what it is: a project producing and preserving poetry audio; an online archive of recordingsWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia3 claims · B13, B3, B4
  • F17 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work.
  • F31 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, s1 documented · field
    PennSound is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet.
  • F49 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶1 s1 documented · field
    PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.
10size: recordings and sound filesWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia3 claims · B3, B8
  • F18 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s2 documented · field
    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.
  • F19 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 documented · field
    Well over 50,000 sound files [ 4 ] are available for streaming and downloading
  • F42 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos, card 8 snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound is the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present.
11founding: 2005Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia2 claims · B3, B6
  • F21 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox documented · field
    Creators … Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein … Launched … 2005
  • F40 Penn Today — PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download | Penn Today, card 6 title and snippet (page unreachable) documented · field
    PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download PHILADELPHIA-- The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it
12namesWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia1 claim · B3
  • F22 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Described as the “iTunes for poetry” by co-director Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, PennSound provides all of its recordings in the form of free downloadable MP3s .
13terms of use and rightsWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia2 claims · B3, B4
  • F23 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2 documented · field
    The files are intended to be used non-commercially by anyone interested in listening to them, and are furthermore available for use by teachers and libraries.
  • F32 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, ¶2 documented · field
    All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work.
14the manifesto: singles, named files, the poet's nameWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia2 claims · B13, B3
  • F24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · field
    PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web.
  • F54 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview, links documented · field
    View the press release from PennSound's launch. … Read the PennSound Manifesto
15provenance of the recordings and their documentationpoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets2 claims · B3, B5
  • F25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · field
    generously provided to PennSound from the poets themselves, universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room , and from poets' estates. … Recordings are broken down into singles, or song length recordings of individual poems. … Complete readings are also available.
  • F38 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶3 s1–s2 documented · field
    declares the project's commitment to regularly produce free, downloadable poetry recordings, in universal formats, with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible. … As an archive, PennSound is committed to providing dates and documentation for all of its recordings
16neighbours: collaborators and thanksWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia2 claims · B13, B3
  • F28 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Collaboration documented · field
    PennSound works closely in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House , UbuWeb , The Electronic Poetry Center , Jacket2 magazine, The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
  • F53 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People, closing thanks documented · field
    to UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center.
17reception: the encyclopediaWikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia1 claim · B3
  • F30 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer documented · field
    This page was last edited on 22 September 2026, at 03:16 (UTC) .
18on video platformsYouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52)4 claims · B10, B11, B12, B4
  • F34 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, card 4 snippet documented · field
    2.16K subscribers•338 videos
  • F45 YouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52), card 10 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·PennSound … 51:52 … YouTube
  • F46 YouTube·The Brainwaves Video Anthology — Charles Bernstein - PennSound (video, 1m), card 11 (the rail's title) documented · field
    Charles Bernstein - PennSound
  • F47 YouTube·Jerry Inspired — YouTube (video, 54:21), card 12 (the rail's text) documented · field
    YouTube·Jerry Inspired … 54:21 … YouTube
19described by otherspoets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets3 claims · B5, B7, B9
  • F35 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶1 s1 documented · field
    Based out of the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one.
  • F41 X — PennSound - X, X profile (card 7 snippet; B7.txt profile text) documented · field
    audio & video archive of poetry & poetics … Associated with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. … Joined March 2009 … 3,607 posts
  • F43 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post 'PennSound authors' (September 4, 2018) documented · field
    PennSound, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems, has a very extensive alphabetical listing of authors included in the archive.

popup — the compression from the field ledger alone (B_D and B_R). With no archive claim admitted, the entry is the archive at its own pages' and its cards' resolution: what it is, who runs it, how recordings are filed and credited, its terms, programs and neighbours, with its two counts and its two staff lists. composed 2026-11-01 from the field ledger alone; not frozen

Form ledger — AIO against both arms, at both levels
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Computed from the row at build: words counted in the text; claims from the ledger ids each line or sentence carries. T's claims are the worked example's T1–T9.

The objects

Tthe transcript208 words · 12 cards

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  • T1-1 definition: 'PennSound is the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present.'
  • T1-2 Host & Location: 'Based at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) and associated with the Kelly Writers House.'
  • T1-3 Directors: 'Co-directed by Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein, and Chris Mustazza.'
  • T1-4 Format: 'Emphasizes individual poem "singles" rather than just full-length readings, making files easy to stream and download as MP3s for free.'
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  • T1-6 Author Pages: 'Extensive, individual catalogs for thousands of writers, including recent additions like the Charles Ruas Author Page featuring historical radio interviews.'
  • T1-7 PennSound Podcasts: 'Regular audio programming produced at the Kelly Writers House, including series like PennSound Rewind hosted by Michael Hennessey.'
  • T1-8 PoemTalk: 'A co-produced podcast series (with Jacket2) featuring roundtable discussions on individual poems from the archive.'
  • T1-9 Archive Access: 'All audio files are open-access and noncommercial.'
  • T1-10 closer: 'Would you like help finding recordings of a specific poet, or are you looking for information on how to browse a particular series on the site?'
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  • B8 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos unreachable: HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T06:16:02Z after a redirect to https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ (a login wall); the saved page carries only Instagram's own description; not retried by any other route.
  • B9 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo card; B9.html sha256 cfb95ace7178db2e, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T06:16:00Z
  • B10 YouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52) unreachable: no title to search by; the rail gives the channel (YouTube·PennSound), the length (51:52) and the title 'YouTube'; not found. Admitted through the rail's text.
  • B11 YouTube·The Brainwaves Video Anthology — Charles Bernstein - PennSound (video, 1m) unreachable: WebSearch on the title and the channel ('Brainwaves Video Anthology "Charles Bernstein" PennSound youtube') returned PennSound's own Bernstein pages and no video page; not fetched. Admitted through title.
  • B12 YouTube·Jerry Inspired — YouTube (video, 54:21) unreachable: no title to search by; the rail gives the channel (YouTube·Jerry Inspired), the length (54:21) and the title 'YouTube'; not found. Admitted through the rail's text.
  • B14 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — CPCW home page (named in T's body by the link 'Kelly Writers House') body-named link; B14.html sha256 ac4914f219dba3e9, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T06:31:13Z
  • B13 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php) own page; copied from the census's saved copy pennsound--about (sha256 9164d92b56f8e207, read 2026-11-01)
Ethe two entities and their relationρ = extends · equal case

E_A, the archive's entity: the same archive, in the leesharks.com authorship census record and the archive's deposits: an empirical comparator of the census in the areas of avant-garde archives and of attribution and credit, which keeps poets' readings of their own and of others' work with the performer named beside the author and co-composers credited, holds them under the poet's name on author pages and under series names, states no policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names and no rights per recording in the census's sources; read by the archive as a witness of a distinct type whose separate attributions let a reading of one poet's work by another collapse into neither; the civil name the atomic unit of attribution (#940 §1); pseudonym and heteronym distinguished (#940 §2); translation, performance and collaborative authorship outside heteronymy (#940 §6); the collapse of plural functions registering as loss (#940 §2) LS-01 LS-02 LS-03 LS-04 LS-05 LS-06 LS-07 LS-08 LS-09 LS-10 LS-11 LS-12 LS-13 LS-14 LS-15 LS-16 LS-17 LS-18 LS-19 LS-20 LS-21 LS-22 LS-23 LS-24 LS-25 LS-26 LS-27 LS-28 LS-29 LS-30 LS-31 LS-32 LS-33 LS-34 LS-35 CAP-1-01 CAP-1-02 CAP-1-03 CAP-1-04 CAP-1-05 CAP-1-06 CAP-1-07 CAP-1-08 CAP-1-09 CAP-1-10 O940-01 O940-02 O940-03 O940-04; defining papers #940

E_F, the field's entity (type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity: a university-hosted archive of poetry audio recordings)): PennSound (writing.upenn.edu/pennsound), an ongoing project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives; a poetry website and online archive of free downloadable recordings of poets, cut into singles with complete readings kept, filed on author, series, anthology and singles pages; directed by Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and Chris Mustazza, edited by Michael S. Hennessey, created by Filreis and Bernstein and launched in 2005; over 1500 recordings and well over 50,000 sound files (Wikipedia), 'more than 50,000 recordings from 1913' (its Instagram); its historical selection crediting performers, translators and a co-composer beside authors; its manifesto requiring every file named and retrievable under the poet's name; for noncommercial and educational use, its writers and artists retaining copyright; with the Ruas collection, podcasts, PennSound Rewind and PoemTalk; collaborating with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center and Jacket2

ρ = extends: The archive reads PennSound as its own pages and the field present it and adds, on the field's own object: the census's question of authored performance, whose voice and under whose name; its answer for the entity (the performer named beside the author, the poet's name and series names as filing names, no stated policy on chosen names, rights per recording unstated in its sources); the reading that a recording keeps separate attributions, so that a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither; #940's civil name as attribution's unit, its pseudonym and heteronym, its boundary placing performance, translation and collaboration outside heteronymy, and the collapse registering as loss; and the registry's account of the composition at the name. LS-01 LS-02 LS-03 LS-04 LS-05 LS-06 LS-07 LS-08 LS-09 LS-10 LS-11 LS-12 LS-13 LS-14 LS-15 LS-16 LS-17 LS-18 LS-19 LS-20 LS-21 LS-22 LS-23 LS-24 LS-25 LS-26 LS-27 LS-28 LS-29 LS-30 LS-31 LS-32 LS-33 LS-34 LS-35 CAP-1-01 CAP-1-02 CAP-1-03 CAP-1-04 CAP-1-05 CAP-1-06 CAP-1-07 CAP-1-08 CAP-1-09 CAP-1-10 O940-01 O940-02 O940-03 O940-04. Guard: ρ = extends claims an addition and no more (§1.2a). It does not make the field's sources wrong at their dates. Where an archive claim stands beside a field claim (LS-13, LS-26 and LS-30 with F32; LS-17 with F42; the three directors of LS-03 with the two of F33 and F37), both are composed under P_coh within the one ontology. #940's categories are applied to classes the field and the census source for the entity (filing under the poet's name: B3; performer credit: B1; the names a work is held under: census record.name), never to a poet filed in PennSound.

The case: equal terms, ontology included (v0.9). The archive reads the field's entity as the entity. The census record describes PennSound from its own pages and Wikipedia, each field with its basis, and answers for it the census's question of how authored performance is recorded; its reading (ls_reading) takes the field's own credits, author, performer and co-composer named apart, as what makes PennSound a witness of a distinct type. The capture record checks the composition against those pages. No deposit names PennSound. #940, the census's anchor, bears by class: the civil name as the unit of attribution, to which the manifesto's filing rule belongs; the pseudonym and the heteronym; performance, translation and collaborative authorship outside heteronymy; the collapse of plural functions as loss. Each adds a question, a distinction or a reading on the field's own object, a sound archive and its attributions, and none contests what the field says the archive is: ρ = extends, the equal-terms case.

#940 §1 ¶2 s1: A civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern legitimacy in scholarly, literary, institutional, and platform-mediated production.

#940 §6, operational boundary: Role-playing, where the role is understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization

#LS census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['ls_reading']: The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither. Its filing rule is the poet's name; whether a chosen name is kept as given is not shown beyond the names it files under.

#LS census.json rows[slug == 'pennsound']['question']: authored performance: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed, with performer and author credited apart

τthe translation: every field claim carried, beside its statement in the archive's ontology54 field claims · 19 rows
field claimsreceivedreceiving texttranslationarchive
F1, F36, F44F1 (B1, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound'): "Inside PennSound … Authors … Series … Anthologies/Collections/Groups … PennSound Daily archive … Singles … Close Listening … Cinema … Classics"; F36 (B5, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s2): "Unlike many poetry audio archives, PennSound's collection is organized into "singles"—individual poems rather than larger, harder-to-download recordings of complete readings."; F44 (B9, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post of March 1, 2022): "PennSound is now making available the segmented audio recording of Doug Kearney’s presentation/reading"—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-09, LS-18LS-09, LS-18
F2, F26, F29, F39F2 (B1, home page, Featured resources, Historical): "Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Pont Mirabeau" (1913) (1:14):"; F26 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s3): "including historic recordings by poets such as Ezra Pound , Wallace Stevens , Guillaume Apollinaire , William Carlos Williams and H.D. , as well as more recent recordings by poets such as Allen Ginsberg , John Ashbery , Jack Spicer , Gertrude Stein , and Lyn Hejinian"; F29 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, Classics): "PennSound also includes readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer , John Milton , Alexander Pope , and William Shakespeare ."; F39 (B5, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s1): "PennSound's bountiful collection features both emerging and canonical poets with an emphasis on the experimental and adventurous."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-10, LS-16LS-10, LS-16
F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11F3 (B1, home page, Featured resources, Historical): "John Clare, "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein (2:54):"; F4 (B1, home page, Featured resources, Historical): "Hannah Weiner, from Clairvoyant Journal , performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut (2001) (6:12):"; F5 (B1, home page, Featured resources, Historical): "Velimir Khlebnikov, "Incantation by Laughter" (1910), tr. and performed by Bernstein"; F6 (B1, home page, Featured resources, Historical): "Kurt Schwitters, "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Scwhitter (1922-1932)"; F7 (B1, home page, Featured resources, after the Historical list): "Selected by Charles Bernstein"; F11 (B1, home page, PennSound Daily (the Nielsen post)): "with the exception of "Self-Organizing Networks," where the music and performance is by Christopher Reiner (and included with permission)."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-11, LS-14, O940-03LS-11, LS-14, O940-03
F8, F10, F14, F15, F27F8 (B1, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' (Posted 3/27/2026)): "Posted 3/27/2026 … Today we're happy to announce a new home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 70s, 80s, and 00s. … this collection at launch features hundreds of recordings"; F10 (B1, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' (Posted 3/11/2026)): "Posted 3/11/2026 … Michael S. Hennessey's new, retrospective podcast fittingly named PennSound Rewind now has a dedicated page here at PennSound."; F14 (B2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, footer): "PENNSOUND PODCASTS are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House"; F15 (B2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, first entry): "Gina Myers … PennSound Podcast #84 … April 1, 2026"; F27 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Podcasts): "in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House and The Poetry Foundation , PennSound sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast that features a discussion of a different poet or poem each show."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-19, LS-20LS-19, LS-20
F9, F52F9 (B1, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas'): "The collection is still under construction and over time will see more additions and improvements"; F52 (B13, About PennSound, Overview ¶2): "We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time. Please contact us if you can supplement the information already provided."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-21LS-21
F12F12 (B1, home page, New at PennSound): "George Quasha reading genius foci , Barrytown, NY, July 14, 2026"—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-27, LS-29LS-27, LS-29
F13F13 (B1, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8'): "programming that get lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is suddenly cut for political reasons … the kind of valuable content hosted by publicly funded distribution platforms like PennSound"—untranslated: composed as received
F16, F20, F33, F37, F48, F50, F51F16 (B2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, #82 'Before and After Christmas'): "PennSound Editor Michael Hennessey is back to spread a little holiday cheer"; F20 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s3–s4): "PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis , Charles Bernstein and Chris Mustazza. … It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania ."; F33 (B4, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, closing lines): "Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, Directors … Michael S. Hennessey, Managing Editor … Mark P. Lindsay, Managing Director"; F37 (B5, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s3): "In addition to readings, PennSound features a collection of lectures, interviews and talk shows hosted by Charles Bernstein, one of the site's two directors along with Al Filreis."; F48 (B14, CPCW home page, site title and navigation): "CPCW – Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing … Kelly Writers House Events … PennSound … ModPo … Director Al Filreis"; F50 (B13, About PennSound, Overview): "PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing."; F51 (B13, About PennSound, People): "Charles Bernstein , Al Filreis , and Chris Mustazza , Directors … Michael S. Hennessey , Editor … Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith , Senior Editors"—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-03LS-03
F17, F31, F49F17 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s1): "PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work."; F31 (B4, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, s1): "PennSound is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet."; F49 (B13, About PennSound, Overview ¶1 s1): "PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-01, LS-06, LS-08LS-01, LS-06, LS-08
F18, F19, F42F18 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s2): "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."; F19 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1): "Well over 50,000 sound files [ 4 ] are available for streaming and downloading"; F42 (B8, card 8 snippet (page unreachable)): "PennSound is the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-17LS-17
F21, F40F21 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox): "Creators … Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein … Launched … 2005"; F40 (B6, card 6 title and snippet (page unreachable)): "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download PHILADELPHIA-- The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it"—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-28LS-28
F22F22 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s1): "Described as the “iTunes for poetry” by co-director Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, PennSound provides all of its recordings in the form of free downloadable MP3s ."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-02LS-02
F23, F32F23 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2): "The files are intended to be used non-commercially by anyone interested in listening to them, and are furthermore available for use by teachers and libraries."; F32 (B4, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, ¶2): "All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-13, LS-25, LS-26LS-13, LS-25, LS-26
F24, F54F24 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto): "PennSound’s manifesto, by Bernstein, consists of 6 points: … Recordings on the site must be free and downloadable. … Recordings must be broken down into singles. … All files must be named. … Bibliographic information must be embedded into each individual sound file. … Sound files must be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet’s name and from search engines on the web."; F54 (B13, About PennSound, Overview, links): "View the press release from PennSound's launch. … Read the PennSound Manifesto"—untranslated: composed as received
F25, F38F25 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors): "generously provided to PennSound from the poets themselves, universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room , and from poets' estates. … Recordings are broken down into singles, or song length recordings of individual poems. … Complete readings are also available."; F38 (B5, poets.org, PennSound, ¶3 s1–s2): "declares the project's commitment to regularly produce free, downloadable poetry recordings, in universal formats, with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible. … As an archive, PennSound is committed to providing dates and documentation for all of its recordings"—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-15LS-15
F28, F53F28 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, Collaboration): "PennSound works closely in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House , UbuWeb , The Electronic Poetry Center , Jacket2 magazine, The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries."; F53 (B13, About PennSound, People, closing thanks): "to UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center."—untranslated: composed as received beside LS-31LS-31
F30F30 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer): "This page was last edited on 22 September 2026, at 03:16 (UTC) ."—untranslated: composed as received
F34, F45, F46, F47F34 (B4, card 4 snippet): "2.16K subscribers•338 videos"; F45 (B10, card 10 (the rail's text)): "YouTube·PennSound … 51:52 … YouTube"; F46 (B11, card 11 (the rail's title)): "Charles Bernstein - PennSound"; F47 (B12, card 12 (the rail's text)): "YouTube·Jerry Inspired … 54:21 … YouTube"—untranslated: composed as received
F35, F41, F43F35 (B5, poets.org, PennSound, ¶1 s1): "Based out of the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one."; F41 (B7, X profile (card 7 snippet; B7.txt profile text)): "audio & video archive of poetry & poetics … Associated with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. … Joined March 2009 … 3,607 posts"; F43 (B9, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post 'PennSound authors' (September 4, 2018)): "PennSound, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems, has a very extensive alphabetical listing of authors included in the archive."—untranslated: composed as received

equal-terms case: every field claim composed as received, beside the archive claims it stands with. Reading the received column recovers the field (§5.9).

R7the measure0 of 20 survive

v0.10 §4.10: KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence): v0.10 0 of 20 (positions [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]; composed first under v0.10, so there is no v0.7 object to measure against). Opening-run check (§5.10): no breach.

L_F(B)recomposed from the disclosed field, in the field's ontology704 words

PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives, and is described as a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. On YouTube PennSound describes itself as a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet; on Instagram, as the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present. Bernstein called it the "iTunes for poetry" in an Associated Press article, as Wikipedia reports, and every recording is a free downloadable MP3. It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, which lists it with the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo under its director, Al Filreis; PennSound is directed by Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and Chris Mustazza, with Michael S. Hennessey as editor and Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors. The YouTube channel's description lists two directors, Bernstein and Filreis, with Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and poets.org's 2006 profile called Bernstein one of the site's two directors. Created by Filreis and Bernstein, it launched in 2005; a Penn Today article titled "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens on the recording industry. Recordings sit on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, Close Listening and the PennSound Daily archive. Readings are broken down into singles, with complete readings available, and newly segmented readings are announced on ModPo; poets.org set the singles against many poetry audio archives. Its manifesto, by Bernstein, requires free downloadable recordings in singles, named files, embedded bibliographic information, and indexing under the poet's name in a library catalog and in web search; the About page links it and the launch press release. The historical selection credits performers beside authors: Clare's "Vowelless Letter" performed by Bernstein, Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Mattlin and Kraut, Schwitters's "Ur Sonata" performed by Ernst Schwitters, and Khlebnikov translated and performed by Bernstein; one piece's music and performance are by Christopher Reiner, included with permission, and the selection is signed by Bernstein. Its holdings include historic recordings by Pound, Stevens, Apollinaire, Williams and H.D., more recent ones by Ginsberg, Ashbery, Spicer, Stein and Hejinian, and classics from Greek poetry to Shakespeare, from Apollinaire's 1913 "Le Pont Mirabeau"; poets.org gave its emphasis as the experimental and adventurous. Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings and well over 50,000 sound files. Recordings come from poets, institutions such as the Woodberry Poetry Room, and estates; documentation is added over time, as its About page states, and poets.org reported a commitment to dates and documentation for every recording. The Charles Ruas collection of radio programming launched on 27 March 2026 with hundreds of recordings and is still under construction; PennSound Rewind, Hennessey's retrospective podcast, got its own page that March, and the newest listing is of 14 July 2026. The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, the newest being episode 84 of 1 April 2026, some presented by Hennessey; PoemTalk is sponsored with the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation. The files are for non-commercial use, by teachers and libraries among others, and the YouTube channel adds that the recordings are for noncommercial and educational use only and that the writers and artists retain all copyrights. A March 2026 post calls PennSound a publicly funded distribution platform and names programming lost when funding is cut for political reasons. It collaborates with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center and the Penn Libraries, and thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center. poets.org called it a free online gallery, archive and radio show; ModPo, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems; its X account, joined in 2009, an audio and video archive of poetry and poetics associated with the Kelly Writers House. Its YouTube channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos, and three video cards stand beside it, one titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound"; its Wikipedia article was last edited on 22 September 2026.

L_A(B ∪ A)the field and the archive composed in the archive's ontology1882 words

PennSound is an ongoing project committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives: a poetry website and online archive that hosts free, downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work, and of others' work. Its own YouTube channel calls it a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet, and its Instagram account the world's preeminent online archive of poetry audio, with more than 50,000 recordings from 1913 to the present. It has been called the "iTunes for poetry", a phrase Wikipedia attributes to Charles Bernstein in an Associated Press article, and its running series of posts is PennSound Daily. It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, whose site lists it among the Center's programs beside the Kelly Writers House events and ModPo, under the Center's director, Al Filreis; PennSound itself is directed by Charles Bernstein, Filreis and Chris Mustazza and edited by Michael S. Hennessey, with Danny Snelson and Kenneth Goldsmith as senior editors. Two other descriptions name two directors: the description on its YouTube channel lists Bernstein and Filreis as directors, Hennessey as managing editor and Mark P. Lindsay as managing director, and a profile on poets.org, posted in December 2006, calls Bernstein one of the site's two directors along with Filreis. Filreis and Bernstein created it, and it was launched in 2005; an article on Penn Today under the title "PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download" opens by setting it against a recording industry that "may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it". Recordings are filed on author pages, series pages, anthology, collection and group pages and in a singles archive, with Cinema, Classics, podcast and Close Listening collections and the PennSound Daily archive beside them. Readings are broken down into singles, one poem to a file, and complete readings are also kept; a 2006 profile set this organization against "many poetry audio archives", and newly segmented readings, cut by poem and by topic, continue to be announced. The PennSound Manifesto, by Bernstein, sets six rules, among them that recordings be free and downloadable and broken down into singles, that all files be named, that bibliographic information be embedded in each file, and that sound files be indexed and retrievable from a library catalog under the poet's name and from search engines on the web; the About page links it and the launch press release. The census records that a work is held under the poet's name on an author page and under a series name on series pages, such as Belladonna* and Love Jawns: A Mixtape, and that the saved pages state no policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names. The archive's paper on heteronymy holds that a civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern scholarly, literary, institutional and platform production, copyright among them, and it distinguishes the pseudonym, which changes the label attached to an authorial function, from the heteronym, which changes the organization of the function itself. Where the reader differs from the author, a recording names both: the historical selection on the home page lists John Clare's "Vowelless Letter" (1849) performed by Charles Bernstein, Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal performed by Weiner, Sharon Mattlin and Rochelle Kraut, Kurt Schwitters's "Ur Sonata: Largo" performed by Ernst Schwitters (spelled "Scwhitter" on the page), and Velimir Khlebnikov's "Incantation by Laughter", translated and performed by Bernstein. A co-composer is credited the same way, the music and performance of one piece being by Christopher Reiner "and included with permission", and the selection itself is signed "Selected by Charles Bernstein". The archive reads PennSound as a witness of a distinct type: a recording keeps the author's name, the performer's voice and a co-composer's credit as separate attributions, so that a reading of one poet's work by another collapses into neither, and its filing rule is the poet's name, with no evidence beyond the names it files under of whether a chosen name is kept as given. In the archive's account of heteronymy, ordinary translation, role-playing "understood as performance rather than as sustained authorial organization" and collaborative authorship that constitutes no distinct heteronym fall outside the concept, and a heteronymic architecture is said to make a collapse of plural functions register as loss; the census, for its part, tags PennSound as not limited to the poet's own voice. Its holdings run from historic recordings by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Guillaume Apollinaire, William Carlos Williams and H.D. to what Wikipedia groups as more recent recordings, by Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Jack Spicer, Gertrude Stein and Lyn Hejinian, with readings and sometimes musical versions of classical Greek poetry, Chaucer, Milton, Pope and Shakespeare; its historical selection opens with Apollinaire's "Le Pont Mirabeau" of 1913. A 2006 profile gave its emphasis as "the experimental and adventurous", across emerging and canonical poets, and the census gives its coverage as recordings from the 1910s onward, from the United States and elsewhere, with no geography stated. Its size is stated in two units: Wikipedia gives over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings, "the largest collection of poetry sound-files on the internet", and in another sentence well over 50,000 sound files, while its Instagram account gives more than 50,000 recordings; its own saved site pages state no count. Its recordings come from the poets themselves, from universities and institutions such as Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, and from poets' estates, and it states the limit of its record: "We intend to provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time," with supplements invited. A 2006 profile reported the manifesto's commitment to recordings "with as much bibliographical and archival information as possible" and called the archive committed to dates and documentation for all of its recordings; the census counts complete bibliographic data for every recording among what the resource does not answer. Its newest collection, announced on 27 March 2026, is a home for Charles Ruas's radio programming from the 1970s, 1980s and 2000s, launched with hundreds of recordings and "still under construction"; the Eric Mottram Centennial Collection is another. The PennSound Podcasts are produced by Al Filreis at the Kelly Writers House and listed on Jacket2, where episode 84, with Gina Myers, is dated 1 April 2026 and the editor, Hennessey, presents episodes of his own; his retrospective podcast, PennSound Rewind, received its own page in March 2026 and is published at PennSound and at Jacket2.org. With the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation it sponsors PoemTalk, a podcast discussing a different poet or poem each show. The census records it as active, with PennSound Daily posts from November 2025 to March 2026, and the newest listing on its home page is George Quasha reading genius foci at Barrytown, New York, on 14 July 2026. Its files are free to stream and download as MP3s and are intended for non-commercial use by anyone, teachers and libraries included; the description on its YouTube channel states the terms in full: "All PennSound recordings are made available for noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work." The census, reading its site pages and its encyclopedia article, records the rights terms of individual recordings as not stated, counts who holds the rights to a recording among the questions the resource does not answer, and leaves any rights or permissions statement unchecked. A March 2026 post on its home page counts PennSound among "publicly funded distribution platforms" and presents the kind of programming that is lost when funding to the institutions that produce it is "suddenly cut for political reasons". It works in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center, Jacket2, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries; its About page thanks UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center, UbuWeb's creator Kenneth Goldsmith is among its senior editors, and the census enters UbuWeb, the Electronic Poetry Center and Jacket2 as its neighbours. Others describe it in their own terms: poets.org in 2006 as "a free online gallery, archive and radio show rolled into one"; ModPo, the site of a course in modern and contemporary American poetry, as "the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems"; and its own X account, joined in March 2009, as an "audio & video archive of poetry & poetics" associated with the Kelly Writers House. On YouTube its channel has 2.16K subscribers and 338 videos; a one-minute video titled "Charles Bernstein - PennSound" is on The Brainwaves Video Anthology's channel, and two longer videos, of 51:52 on PennSound's channel and 54:21 on a channel named Jerry Inspired, carry no title beyond the platform's name. The leesharks.com authorship census, which admits a resource that gathers and holds many works or records and says what it holds, enters PennSound as an empirical comparator in the areas of avant-garde and experimental archives and of attribution and credit, and asks of it how authored performance is recorded: whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed, with performer and author credited apart. The census's anchors are the archive's paper on heteronymy and its essay on the existence tax, and its organizing question asks how authorship is made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained across persons, personas, collectives and machine participation, and what is lost when those relations are collapsed. By the census's account the resource answers whether a recording of a named poet is held, who performs a recording where the performer differs from the author, and which reading series and events it has recorded, and it leaves unanswered how an author who writes under several names is filed; the census leaves the author pages, series pages and singles archive themselves to later reading, and Wikipedia's article, the field's encyclopedia source, was last edited on 22 September 2026. Asked for the name on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview, at a new address, gave PennSound as "the world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present", with its host, its directors, its singles, its scope and its programs, and the Capture Registry found the host and the three directors exact and the Ruas collection carried, the 2005 launch left out. The registry traces the count to the Instagram card and Wikipedia's "Well over 50,000 sound files", and the year 1913 to Apollinaire's recording, and notes that the composition calls all the files recordings and names T.S. Eliot, who appears in none of the three PennSound pages the census saved. It found the separate credits absent: the composition files everything under author pages, "individual catalogs for thousands of writers", in keeping with the manifesto's rule of the poet's name, and has no place for a reading of one poet's work by another, the feature that makes PennSound a row of the census; the registry's analysis calls the archive composed accurately at its grain. The registry scored the composition's provenance at 0.25, the three directors and the Center named and the sources carded, and records PennSound as an external resource entered in the census on 1 November 2026 with its own pages saved by hash.

Δthe delta

current · derived from the current composition

T against L_F(B) (AIO's ontology at work on its own cards): At "PennSound" (T1, twelve cards and one body-named link; 208 words) the composition gives the archive at its grain from its disclosed pool. Composed from B_D: the lede's "world's largest free digital archive of poetry audio, featuring over 50,000 recordings spanning from 1913 to the present" follows PennSound's own Instagram card nearly word for word (B8 F42, 'preeminent' raised to 'largest', 'more than' to 'over'), with 'largest' on the YouTube channel, Wikipedia and ModPo (B4 F31, B3 F18, B9 F43); the host, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (card 1's site; B3 F20; B14 F48), and the Kelly Writers House association (B7 F41; the body's link); the three directors exactly (B3 F20); singles and free MP3s (B3 F25, F22; B5 F36); the scope's Williams, Stevens and Stein (B3 F26) and 'experimental' (B5 F39); author pages (B1 F1) and the Ruas collection (B1 F8); the podcasts at the Kelly Writers House (B2 F14) and PennSound Rewind with Hennessey (B1 F10); PoemTalk (B3 F27); 'noncommercial' (B3 F23, B4 F31). §6.2 'available, not composed' (B_D): the credits that make it a census row, author and performer named apart (B1 F3, F4, F5, F6), the co-composer 'included with permission' (B1 F11) and the signed selection (B1 F7) (CAP-1-03); the founding, 2005, and its creators (B3 F21; CAP-1-01) and the Penn Today launch framing (B6 F40); the manifesto's rules, every file named and retrievable under the poet's name (B3 F24); the 1500 recordings (B3 F18); the provenance of the recordings, poets, institutions and estates (B3 F25); the Ruas collection's limit (B1 F9) and the commitment to documentation (B5 F38); the funding statement (B1 F13); the collaborators UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center (B3 F28); the classics (B3 F29). Limit dropped: 'All audio files are open-access and noncommercial', where PennSound's own channel states 'noncommercial and educational use only; the featured writers and artists retain all copyrights to their work' (B4 F32): the educational restriction and the retained copyrights are dropped, and 'open-access', a term no field source uses, raises the terms (force raised). Coarsened: 'over 50,000 recordings' makes recordings of Wikipedia's 'sound files' (B3 F19) beside its 'over 1500 full-length and single-poem recordings' (B3 F18) (CAP-1-02); the Ruas collection's 'radio programming' as 'historical radio interviews'; the podcasts' producer, Filreis (B2 F14), dropped. Substituted reading, in part: PoemTalk 'co-produced ... (with Jacket2)', where the field gives the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation as its co-sponsors (B3 F27) and Jacket2 as the site that lists the PennSound podcasts (B2). Outside the field as read: 'T.S. Eliot' among the voices in its scope (the field carries Eliot only in an episode title of Jacket2's podcast index, 'Alan Golding & friends on the modernist long poem (& Eliot)', B2.txt; CAP-1-02); 'thousands of writers' for the author pages (no field source counts them). Content replaced by use (N_ext): the closer offers help finding a poet's recordings or browsing a series. Composed without attribution, by grain: the archive's own self-description at its own resolution, cited inline to cards [1] and [2], within the grain rule. From B_R alone (B13, the About page) nothing is read as available to the composition; its directors, editors and documentation limit agree with what T and B_D carry.

v0.10 §0.5: the first diff is ontological and narrow. T and the disclosed pool agree on the entity (a university-hosted, free archive of poetry audio under three named directors). T composes the archive as a service to browse, its size, scope and programs at its own grain, and leaves out what the field says of how a recording is attributed: the author named apart from the performer, the translator and the co-composer, and the manifesto's rule that every file be named under the poet's name. The terms of use are raised to 'open-access' and lose the educational restriction and the retained copyrights, and one co-sponsor of PoemTalk is substituted.

L_F(B) against L_A(B ∪ A) (the intervention): Admission adds, in one claim space with the field's: the census record's question for the entity, authored performance, whose voice a recording carries and under whose name it is filed (LS-07), and its organizing question and anchors (LS-33, LS-35); its answer for PennSound: poets' readings of their own and of others' work, with the performer named beside the author and co-composers credited (LS-11), under the poet's name on author pages and a series name on series pages, with no stated policy on pseudonyms, heteronyms or collective names (LS-12), held by the Center on terms whose rights per recording the census records as unstated (LS-13), authorship and performance credited apart (LS-14); what it answers and does not answer (LS-22, LS-23) and what it is not (LS-30); the archive's reading, a witness of a distinct type whose separate attributions let a reading of one poet's work by another collapse into neither (LS-24); #940's readings of the classes the field and the census source for it: the civil name as attribution's atomic unit (O940-01), the pseudonym and the heteronym (O940-02), translation, performance and collaborative authorship outside heteronymy (O940-03), and the collapse registering as loss (O940-04); and the Capture Registry's account of the composition at the name (CAP-1-01 to CAP-1-10), whose findings the field ledger bears out (F20; F42, F19; F3). The census restates the field's own pages for kind, operator, unit, holdings, limits, lifecycle and terms (LS-01, LS-03, LS-09, LS-18, LS-19, LS-21, LS-27, LS-28, LS-25), one lineage with them. Where the census records rights as unstated in its saved sources (LS-13, LS-26, LS-30), the field's YouTube card states them (F32): both are composed under P_coh. Not surfaced: every archive source; no card cites the census record, the registry or the archive.

alignment: {'T1_cards_claims': ['F1', 'F2', 'F3', 'F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F7', 'F8', 'F9', 'F10', 'F11', 'F12', 'F13', 'F14', 'F15', 'F16', 'F17', 'F18', 'F19', 'F20', 'F21', 'F22', 'F23', 'F24', 'F25', 'F26', 'F27', 'F28', 'F29', 'F30', 'F31', 'F32', 'F33', 'F34', 'F35', 'F36', 'F37', 'F38', 'F39', 'F40', 'F41', 'F42', 'F43', 'F44', 'F45', 'F46', 'F47', 'F48'], 'T1_composed': ['F42 (B8; nearly verbatim)', 'F20 (B3; exact)', "F41 (B7; 'associated with the Kelly Writers House')", 'F25 / F36 (singles)', 'F22 (free MP3s)', 'F26 (Williams, Stevens, Stein)', "F39 ('experimental')", 'F1 (author pages)', 'F8 (the Ruas collection; coarsened)', 'F14 (Kelly Writers House; producer dropped)', 'F10 (Rewind, Hennessey)', 'F27 (PoemTalk; co-sponsor substituted)', "F23 / F31 ('noncommercial')", 'F19 (files as recordings)', 'F2 (1913)', "F48 (the Center, by the body's link)"], 'T1_composed_from_own_page': [], 'T1_outside_cards': ["'T.S. Eliot' among the voices of its scope (B2 carries Eliot only in an episode title, '(& Eliot)')", "'thousands of writers' for the author pages (no field source)", "'open-access' (no field source; B4 restricts the use)", "PoemTalk 'co-produced ... (with Jacket2)' (B3 gives the Kelly Writers House and the Poetry Foundation)"], 'T1_not_composed_B_D': ['F3', 'F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F11', 'F7', 'F21', 'F40', 'F24', 'F18', 'F9', 'F38', 'F13', 'F28', 'F29', 'F33', 'F37', 'F16', 'F15', 'F12', 'F30', 'F43', 'F35', 'F34', 'F45', 'F46', 'F47', 'F32'], 'B_R_only': ['F49', 'F50', 'F51', 'F52', 'F53', 'F54'], 'rule': "v0.10 §6.1–§6.2: T against L_F(B_D), the disclosed pool alone; 'available, not composed' names B_D only; a claim of B_R alone cannot show what the composition had. Composed = the claim's content in T's body at any grain."}

Kthe prospective kernel sealed only at freeze · composer-written49 entries

composer-written · derived from the current composition, written by its composer under the brief. §8.2 derives the kernel mechanically from the frozen plan; this one was written by the composer, mechanical derivation pending.

K1LS-01 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)
claim
LS-01
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
stipulation
sense
what it is: a project producing and preserving poetry audio; an online archive of recordings
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K2LS-02 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F22)
claim
LS-02
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
names
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F22)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K3LS-03 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F16, F20, F33, F37, F48, F50)
claim
LS-03
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
directors and editors
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F16, F20, F33, F37, F48, F50)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K4LS-04 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-04
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
the census's question: authored performance
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K5LS-05 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-05
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
the census's question: authored performance
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K6LS-06 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)
claim
LS-06
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
stipulation
sense
what it is: a project producing and preserving poetry audio; an online archive of recordings
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K7LS-07 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-07
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
the census's question: authored performance
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K8LS-08 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)
claim
LS-08
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
what it is: a project producing and preserving poetry audio; an online archive of recordings
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K9LS-09 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F1, F36, F44)
claim
LS-09
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
how recordings are filed: author, series, anthology and singles pages
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F1, F36, F44)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K10LS-10 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F2, F26, F29, F39)
claim
LS-10
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
scope and period: historic to contemporary
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F2, F26, F29, F39)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K11LS-11 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11)
claim
LS-11
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
author and performer credited apart
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K12LS-12 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-12
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
under whose name: the poet's name, a series name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K13LS-13 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01rival claim: F32 (PennSound's YouTube channel states the rights terms the census records as unstated in its saved sources)
claim
LS-13
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
terms of use and rights
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
rival claim: F32 (PennSound's YouTube channel states the rights terms the census records as unstated in its saved sources)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K14LS-14 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11)
claim
LS-14
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
author and performer credited apart
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K15LS-15 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F25, F38)
claim
LS-15
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
provenance of the recordings and their documentation
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F25, F38)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K16LS-16 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F2, F26, F29, F39)
claim
LS-16
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
scope and period: historic to contemporary
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F2, F26, F29, F39)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K17LS-17 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01qualified claim: F42 (PennSound's own Instagram states a count of recordings)
claim
LS-17
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
size: recordings and sound files
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim: F42 (PennSound's own Instagram states a count of recordings)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K18LS-18 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F1, F36, F44)
claim
LS-18
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
how recordings are filed: author, series, anthology and singles pages
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F1, F36, F44)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K19LS-19 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F8, F10, F14, F15, F27)
claim
LS-19
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
collections and programs: the Ruas collection, podcasts, PoemTalk
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F8, F10, F14, F15, F27)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K20LS-20 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F8, F10, F14, F15, F27)
claim
LS-20
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
collections and programs: the Ruas collection, podcasts, PoemTalk
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F8, F10, F14, F15, F27)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K21LS-21 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F9, F52)
claim
LS-21
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
self-description
sense
stated limits: documentation added over time; the Ruas collection under construction
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F9, F52)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K22LS-22 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-22
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
what it answers and does not answer
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K23LS-23 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-23
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
what it answers and does not answer
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K24LS-24 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-24
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
the archive's reading: separate attributions
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K25LS-25 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F23, F32)
claim
LS-25
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
terms of use and rights
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F23, F32)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K26LS-26 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01qualified claim: F32 ('noncommercial and educational use only'; copyrights retained)
claim
LS-26
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
terms of use and rights
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim: F32 ('noncommercial and educational use only'; copyrights retained)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K27LS-27 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F12)
claim
LS-27
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
lifecycle: active, recordings listed to July 2026
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F12)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K28LS-28 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F21, F40)
claim
LS-28
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
founding: 2005
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F21, F40)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K29LS-29 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F12)
claim
LS-29
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
lifecycle: active, recordings listed to July 2026
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F12)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K30LS-30 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01qualified claim: F32 (rights terms stated on the channel)
claim
LS-30
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
what it answers and does not answer
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim: F32 (rights terms stated on the channel)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K31LS-31 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01none (one lineage with the field's F28, F53)
claim
LS-31
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
neighbours: collaborators and thanks
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
none (one lineage with the field's F28, F53)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K32LS-32 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-32
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
what it answers and does not answer
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K33LS-33 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-33
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
stipulation
sense
the census's question: authored performance
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K34LS-34 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-34
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
stipulation
sense
the census's question: authored performance
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K35LS-35 leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
LS-35
source
leesharks.com authorship census record, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the census's question: authored performance
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K36CAP-1-01 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-01
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K37CAP-1-02 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01qualified claim: F19, F42 (the units of the count)
claim
CAP-1-02
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim: F19, F42 (the units of the count)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K38CAP-1-03 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-03
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K39CAP-1-04 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-04
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K40CAP-1-05 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-05
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K41CAP-1-06 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-06
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K42CAP-1-07 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-07
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K43CAP-1-08 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-08
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K44CAP-1-09 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-09
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K45CAP-1-10 Capture Registry, 2026-11-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
CAP-1-10
source
Capture Registry, 2026-11-01
M_src
documented
sense
the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K46O940-01 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
O940-01
source
#940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
under whose name: the poet's name, a series name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K47O940-02 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
O940-02
source
#940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01
M_src
stipulation
sense
under whose name: the poet's name, a series name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K48O940-03 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01qualified claim: F3, F4, F5, F6
claim
O940-03
source
#940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01
M_src
stipulation
sense
author and performer credited apart
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim: F3, F4, F5, F6
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K49O940-04 #940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
claim
O940-04
source
#940 EA-HETERONYMY-01, 2026-07-01
M_src
interpretation
sense
the archive's reading: separate attributions
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)
resolver
a later capture at "PennSound" (ADDR-ec08ad73501e) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
Archive bearing — D/R/O traversalread

Candidates are found by string; admission is by reading.

traversalfirst reading, 2026-11-01; second pass with one citation hop
D 0 deposits · 0 sentencesR 0 · 0O 73 · 0 direct, 87 classhop 5read: 1 admitted, 4 not

Lee Sharks · Crimson Hexagonal Archive · register v1.36, 2026-10-27. Built by scripts/build_non.py from the files linked above; it writes nothing back. Working, not frozen.