Poetry Playlist: Long Track Blues

Interesting People Reading Poetry

For each IPRP Poetry Playlist, we curate a selection of three poems, loosely thematically related, presented with musical score, but without any commentary or historical context. This episode features a selection of recordings from PennSound, a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. The PennSound website features an extensive audio archive with free recordings of hundreds of poets reading their own work.

Tracklist

1. “Long Track Blues” by Sterling Brown appears in The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, published by TriQuarterly. This episode features a recording of the poem from the Sterling Brown archive on PennSound.

2. “Rails in the Subway” by Charles Reznikoff appears in The Poems Of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975, published by Black Sparrow Press. This episode features a recording of the poem from the Charles Reznikoff archive on PennSound.

3. “At North Farm” by John Ashbery appears in Selected Poems, published by Penguin Books. This episode features a recording of the poem from the John Ashbery archive on PennSound.

This episode uses the sounds “Accordion drone” and “Untuned piano” by adrianorhagen from freesound.org under the Attribution 4.0 license.

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