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PennSound Adds 3 More KWLS Recordings

We're delighted to note that our partners at PennSound have <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Littoral.html" target="_blank">added</a> three more recordings from the KWLS archives. Our 2003 recordings by C.D. Wright and Forrest Gander, and a 2008 recording by Maggie Nelson, all recently posted here, are now also part of PennSound's estimable collection.<br><br> For years, <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/" target="_blank">PennSound</a> has been the best place to go for free, downloadable poetry readings by many of the 20th century's most original poets. We're grateful for the opportunity to work with the good people at PennSound and for the chance to reach their listener-readers. Check out their author index <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/authors.php" target="_blank">here</a>, where you'll find rare readings by <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Williams-WC.html" target="_blank">William Carlos Williams</a>, <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Koch.html" target="_blank">Kenneth Koch</a>, <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Palmer.html" target="_blank">Michael Palmer</a>, and others.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on October 31, 2008 4:58 PM

C.D. Wright: 2003

C.D. Wright is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose, including <em>Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil</em> (2005). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (twice), the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Bunting Institute, as well as Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In this audio recording from 2003, Wright reads from <em>One Big Self</em> (2003), her collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster, which portrayed inmates at three Louisiana prisons.<br>

Posted by Arlo Haskell on October 16, 2008 1:45 PM