PennSound
| Available in | English |
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| Owner | Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania |
| Created by | Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein |
| Editor | Michael Hennessey |
| URL | writing |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2005 |
PennSound is a poetry website and online archive that hosts free and downloadable recordings of poets reading their own work. 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. PennSound is codirected by Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein. It is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.