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.

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.

Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance.

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

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.

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

Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet.

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

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874, in Pittsburgh - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France.