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var gcse = document.createElement('script'); gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; gcse.async = true; gcse.src = 'https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=' + cx; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s); })(); </script> <gcse:searchbox-only linkTarget="_parent"></gcse:searchbox-only> </div> </div> </td> <td id="content"> <h1>About PennSound</h1> <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mClvCzCOHaE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <h2>Overview</h2> <dl class="right" style="width: 350px;"> <dt><img src="images/Bernstein-Filreis_Mark-Stehle.jpg" alt="Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein" /></dt> <dd>Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein at PennSound (photo by Mark Stehle)</dd> </dl> <p>PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives. For an overview of PennSound — including a discussion of the project's pedagogical implications — we invite you to listen to <a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/Pennsound/podcasts/PennSound-Podcast_06_pennsound-overview.mp3">PennSound podcast #6</a>.</p> <p>Professor Charles Bernstein and English Ph.D. student Chris Mustazza explore the history of the PennSound archive below in <a href="https://vimeo.com/243316319">Knowledge by the Slice: "Radio Free Poetry: PennSound at 14"</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/pennsas">Penn Arts & Sciences</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/243316319?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p>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.</p> <p>View the <a href="news/press-release-launch.php">press release</a> from PennSound's launch.</p> <p>Read the <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/manifesto.php">PennSound Manifesto</a></p> <p>PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.</p> <p>Contact us: <a href="mailto:pennsound@writing.upenn.edu">pennsound@writing.upenn.edu</a></p>  <h2>People</h2> <ul> <li><span class="person">Charles Bernstein</span>, <span class="person">Al Filreis</span>, and <span class="person">Chris Mustazza</span>, Directors</li> <li><span class="person">Michael S. Hennessey</span>, Editor </li> <li><span class="person">Christopher J. Martin</span>, Technical Director</li> <li><span class="person">Zach Carduner</span>, Managing Editor</li> </ul> <ul> <li><span class="person">Steve McLaughlin</span>, Podcast Director and Senior Editor</li> <li><span class="person">Danny Snelson</span> and <span class="person">Kenneth Goldsmith</span>, Senior Editors</li> <li><span class="person">Chris Funkhouser</span> and <span class="person">A.L. Nielsen</span>, Contributing Editors</li> <li><span class="person">Andrew Depass</span>, <span class="person">Wes Matthews</span>, <span class="person">Henry McDevitt</span>, <span class="person">Alex Moon</span>, <span class="person">Madeleine Song</span>, and <span class="person">Savannah Sparks</span>, Student Technical Support Staff</li> </ul> <p>Special thanks to our former editors, interns, and student support staff: <span class="person">Eric Baus</span>, <span class="person">Leah Baxter</span>, <span class="person">Mollie Braverman</span>, <span class="person">Jeffrey Boruszak</span>, <span class="person">Tyler Burke</span>, <span class="person">Rebekah Caton</span>, <span class="person">Alina Chin</span>, <span class="person">Andie Davidson</span>, <span class="person">Rafael Dimaano</span>, <span class="person">Annie Fang</span>, <span class="person">Jonathan Gorman</span>, <span class="person">Shin Huang</span>, <span class="person">Kun Jia</span>, <span class="person">Elvis Jimenez</span>, <span class="person">Ivana Kohut</span>, <span class="person">Joel Kuszai</span>, <span class="person">Anthony Lagana</span>, <span class="person">Rebekah Larsen</span>, <span class="person">Jenny Lesser</span>, <span class="person">Ari Lewis</span>, <span class="person">Megan Lewis</span>, <span class="person">Sharon Margolis</span>, <span class="person">Kaitlin Moore</span>, <span class="person">Gabriel Ojeda-Sague</span>, <span class="person">Mary Osunlana</span>, <span class="person">Jamie Png</span>, <span class="person">Adelaide Powell</span>, <span class="person">Emily Rush</span>, <span class="person">Katie Siegel</span>, <span class="person">Nick Seymour</span>, <span class="person">Arundhati Singh</span>, <span class="person">Henry Steinberg</span>, <span class="person">Anna Strong</span>, <span class="person">Mike Van Helder</span>, <span class="person">Zach Walters</span>, <span class="person">Mary Weston</span>, <span class="person">Jonathan Wilt</span>, <span class="person">Chris Yeager</span>, <span class="person">Connie Yu</span>, and <span class="person">Anna Zalokostas</span>.</p>  <h2>Thanks</h2> <p>We express our thanks to Penn's <a href="http://www.english.upenn.edu/">English Department</a>, the wonderful staffs of the Kelly Writers House, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and School of Arts & Sciences Computing; to UbuWeb and the Electronic Poetry Center. We are grateful to Tom and Lindy Gallagher, Paul Williams, David Roberts and an anonymous donor for their generous support of PennSound.</p> <br /> </td> </tr> </table>  <script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-2249536-1"; urchinTracker(); </script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-4VB2BVKFJK"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-4VB2BVKFJK'); </script> </body> </html>