Spring comes to PennSound
At PennSound's home base here in the Middle Atlantic of the U.S., the PennSound staff is enjoying the start of spring. So we decided to offer a vernal sampling from our archive:
1. William Carlos Williams, “Spring Strains” (1:09): MP3
2. Paul Blackburn, “It might as well be spring” (1:37): MP3
3. E. E. Cummings (read by John Richetti), “spring is like a perhaps hand” (0:53): MP3
4. Alan Davies, “Cold Spring” (22:15): MP3
5. Edwin Denby, “The Spring goes drifting, angel of deceit” (1:03): MP3
6. Jeffrey Robinson reading “Ode: Composed on A May Morning” by William Wordsworth; followed by his own “Vernal Song of Blithe May after William Wordworth”; an excerpt from Wordworth's “The Triad”; his own “Poem on the Letter 'A'” (6:29): MP3
7. John Ashbery, “April Galleons” (4:08): MP3
8. Hannah Weiner, from “May from the Journal in June” — Hannah Weiner, poet and reader; Sharon Mattlin & Rochelle Kraut, readers (6:12): MP3
9. Tom Leonard, “June the Second” (1:06): MP3
10. Philip Whalen, “Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring” (0:45): MP3
11. Fiona Templeton, from Medea on the Argo, “Medea wants a child in spring” (1:03): MP312. John Richetti performs e.e. cummings's "spring is like a perhaps hand" (0:53): MP3
13. Matthew Rotando, "On Occasion in Spring, One is Really Ecstatic..." (0:57): MP3
14. Paul Blackburn, "Paris and not spring either" (0:51): MP3
15. William Carlos Williams, "Widow's Lament in Springtime": (0:55): MP3
16. Eileen Myles, "April 5" (1:04): MP3