PennSound Poetry Readings on Audio

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer society's negative human values.

PennSound Podcasts and Close Listening are hosted by PennSound's co-directors, Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein, respectively.

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey) is a American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism.

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States – September 27, 1961, Zürich, Switzerland), prominently known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.

James Schuyler (9 November 1923 – 12 April 1991) was a major American poet.

Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (August 11, 1892, Langholm - September 9, 1978), perhaps the most important Scottish poet of the 20th century.

Fanny Howe (1940 - ) is an American poet, novelist and short story writer.

June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants.

Michael Palmer (b.1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator.

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 - December 5, 1931), an American poet born in Springfield, Illinois, became known as the "Prairie Troubador." Lindsay early advocated jazz poetry.