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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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The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view).] The 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted. [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. 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[[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. 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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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Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox documented · fieldF40 Penn Today — PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download | Penn Today, card 6 title and snippet (page unreachable) documented · fieldF1 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound' documented · fieldF25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · fieldF36 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s2 documented · fieldF44 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post of March 1, 2022 documented · fieldF24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · fieldF54 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview, links documented · fieldF3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF4 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF6 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF5 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF11 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily (the Nielsen post) documented · fieldF7 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, after the Historical list documented · fieldF26 Wikipedia — PennSound - 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Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, footer documented · fieldF15 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, first entry documented · fieldF16 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, #82 'Before and After Christmas' documented · fieldF27 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Podcasts documented · fieldF23 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2 documented · fieldF32 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, ¶2 documented · fieldF13 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' documented · fieldF28 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Collaboration documented · fieldF53 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People, closing thanks documented · fieldF35 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶1 s1 documented · fieldF43 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post 'PennSound authors' (September 4, 2018) documented · fieldF41 X — PennSound - X, X profile (card 7 snippet; B7.txt profile text) documented · fieldF34 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, card 4 snippet documented · fieldF45 YouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52), card 10 (the rail's text) documented · fieldF46 YouTube·The Brainwaves Video Anthology — Charles Bernstein - PennSound (video, 1m), card 11 (the rail's title) documented · fieldF47 YouTube·Jerry Inspired — YouTube (video, 54:21), card 12 (the rail's text) documented · fieldF30 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer documented · fieldPennSound 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.
F1 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, navigation 'Inside PennSound' documented · fieldF36 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s2 documented · fieldF44 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post of March 1, 2022 documented · fieldF2 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF26 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s3 documented · fieldF29 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, Classics documented · fieldF39 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s1 documented · fieldF3 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF4 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF5 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF6 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, Historical documented · fieldF7 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, Featured resources, after the Historical list documented · fieldF11 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily (the Nielsen post) documented · fieldF8 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' (Posted 3/27/2026) documented · fieldF10 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' (Posted 3/11/2026) documented · fieldF14 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, footer documented · fieldF15 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, first entry documented · fieldF27 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Podcasts documented · fieldF9 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'Charles Ruas' documented · fieldF52 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶2 documented · fieldF12 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, New at PennSound documented · fieldF13 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing — PennSound, home page, PennSound Daily, 'PennSound Rewind Episodes 1–8' documented · fieldF16 Jacket2 — PennSound podcasts - Jacket2, Jacket2, PennSound podcasts, #82 'Before and After Christmas' documented · fieldF20 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s3–s4 documented · fieldF33 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, closing lines documented · fieldF37 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶2 s3 documented · fieldF48 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 · fieldF50 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview documented · fieldF51 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People documented · fieldF17 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s1 documented · fieldF31 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, s1 documented · fieldF49 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview ¶1 s1 documented · fieldF18 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, lead ¶1 s2 documented · fieldF19 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 documented · fieldF42 Instagram — PennSound (@pennsound) • Instagram photos and videos, card 8 snippet (page unreachable) documented · fieldF21 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, infobox documented · fieldF40 Penn Today — PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download | Penn Today, card 6 title and snippet (page unreachable) documented · fieldF22 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s1 documented · fieldF23 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, The Archive ¶1 s2 documented · fieldF32 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, YouTube channel, <meta> og:description, ¶2 documented · fieldF24 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Manifesto documented · fieldF54 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, Overview, links documented · fieldF25 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Content, PennSound Authors documented · fieldF38 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶3 s1–s2 documented · fieldF28 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, Collaboration documented · fieldF53 PennSound — About PennSound (about.php), About PennSound, People, closing thanks documented · fieldF30 Wikipedia — PennSound - Wikipedia, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer documented · fieldF34 YouTube — PennSound - YouTube, card 4 snippet documented · fieldF45 YouTube·PennSound — YouTube (video, 51:52), card 10 (the rail's text) documented · fieldF46 YouTube·The Brainwaves Video Anthology — Charles Bernstein - PennSound (video, 1m), card 11 (the rail's title) documented · fieldF47 YouTube·Jerry Inspired — YouTube (video, 54:21), card 12 (the rail's text) documented · fieldF35 poets.org | Academy of American Poets — PennSound | Academy of American Poets, poets.org, PennSound, ¶1 s1 documented · fieldF41 X — PennSound - X, X profile (card 7 snippet; B7.txt profile text) documented · fieldF43 ModPo — Category: PennSound - ModPo, ModPo, Category: PennSound, post 'PennSound authors' (September 4, 2018) documented · field| AIO (T) | L_F compression | L_F expansion | L_A compression | L_A expansion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| body words | 208 | 122 | 713 | 287 | 1895 |
| distinct claims | 10 | 54 | 54 | 103 | 103 |
| claims per 100 words | 4.8 | 44.3 | 7.6 | 35.9 | 5.4 |
| field claims carried (of 54) | — | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| archive claims | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 49 |
| rail | 12 documents | 19 lineages | per sentence | 24 lineages | per sentence |
| modality shown in | none | typography | grammar | typography | grammar |
register entry pennsound-aio-20261101 · file as first run
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)
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. . 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.
| field claims | received | receiving text | translation | archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F1, F36, F44 | F1 (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-18 | LS-09, LS-18 |
| F2, F26, F29, F39 | F2 (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-16 | LS-10, LS-16 |
| F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11 | F3 (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, O940-03 | LS-11, LS-14, O940-03 |
| F8, F10, F14, F15, F27 | F8 (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-20 | LS-19, LS-20 |
| F9, F52 | F9 (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-21 | LS-21 |
| F12 | F12 (B1, home page, New at PennSound): "George Quasha reading genius foci , Barrytown, NY, July 14, 2026" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside LS-27, LS-29 | LS-27, LS-29 |
| F13 | F13 (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, F51 | F16 (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-03 | LS-03 |
| F17, F31, F49 | F17 (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-08 | LS-01, LS-06, LS-08 |
| F18, F19, F42 | F18 (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-17 | LS-17 |
| F21, F40 | F21 (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-28 | LS-28 |
| F22 | F22 (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-02 | LS-02 |
| F23, F32 | F23 (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-26 | LS-13, LS-25, LS-26 |
| F24, F54 | F24 (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, F38 | F25 (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-15 | LS-15 |
| F28, F53 | F28 (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-31 | LS-31 |
| F30 | F30 (B3, Wikipedia, PennSound, footer): "This page was last edited on 22 September 2026, at 03:16 (UTC) ." | — | untranslated: composed as received | |
| F34, F45, F46, F47 | F34 (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, F43 | F35 (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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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LS-01 none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)LS-01LS-02 none (one lineage with the field's F22)LS-02LS-03 none (one lineage with the field's F16, F20, F33, F37, F48, F50)LS-03LS-04 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-04LS-05 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-05LS-06 none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)LS-06LS-07 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-07LS-08 none (one lineage with the field's F17, F31, F49)LS-08LS-09 none (one lineage with the field's F1, F36, F44)LS-09LS-10 none (one lineage with the field's F2, F26, F29, F39)LS-10LS-11 none (one lineage with the field's F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11)LS-11LS-12 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-12LS-13 rival claim: F32 (PennSound's YouTube channel states the rights terms the census records as unstated in its saved sources)LS-13LS-14 none (one lineage with the field's F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F11)LS-14LS-15 none (one lineage with the field's F25, F38)LS-15LS-16 none (one lineage with the field's F2, F26, F29, F39)LS-16LS-17 qualified claim: F42 (PennSound's own Instagram states a count of recordings)LS-17LS-18 none (one lineage with the field's F1, F36, F44)LS-18LS-19 none (one lineage with the field's F8, F10, F14, F15, F27)LS-19LS-20 none (one lineage with the field's F8, F10, F14, F15, F27)LS-20LS-21 none (one lineage with the field's F9, F52)LS-21LS-22 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-22LS-23 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-23LS-24 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-24LS-25 none (one lineage with the field's F23, F32)LS-25LS-26 qualified claim: F32 ('noncommercial and educational use only'; copyrights retained)LS-26LS-27 none (one lineage with the field's F12)LS-27LS-28 none (one lineage with the field's F21, F40)LS-28LS-29 none (one lineage with the field's F12)LS-29LS-30 qualified claim: F32 (rights terms stated on the channel)LS-30LS-31 none (one lineage with the field's F28, F53)LS-31LS-32 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-32LS-33 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-33LS-34 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-34LS-35 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)LS-35CAP-1-01 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-01CAP-1-02 qualified claim: F19, F42 (the units of the count)CAP-1-02CAP-1-03 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-03CAP-1-04 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-04CAP-1-05 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-05CAP-1-06 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-06CAP-1-07 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-07CAP-1-08 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-08CAP-1-09 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-09CAP-1-10 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-10O940-01 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)O940-01O940-02 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)O940-02O940-03 qualified claim: F3, F4, F5, F6O940-03O940-04 missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)O940-04Candidates are found by string; admission is by reading.
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