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Harvard University's SoundCloud channel shares audio content about life and learning that takes place here on campus and around the world.
Harvard is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 370,000 alumni around the world.
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"Difficulties of a Statesman" T. S. Eliot
Nov 6, 202300:03:22Tap to summarizeAs the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
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“Why’s/Wise 1” Amiri Baraka
Nov 6, 202300:01:10Tap to summarizeThe Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
Transcribe →"Spring and All" William Carlos Williams
Nov 6, 202300:01:11Tap to summarizeThe Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
Transcribe →"The Hollow Men" T. S. Eliot
Nov 6, 202300:03:53Tap to summarizeAs the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
Transcribe →“Not Even This” Ocean Vuong
Nov 6, 202300:07:36Tap to summarizeThe Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
Transcribe →"A Song for Simeon" T. S. Eliot
Nov 6, 202300:02:27Tap to summarizeAs the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
Transcribe →"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour" Wallace Stevens
Nov 6, 202300:02:02Tap to summarizeThe Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
Transcribe →"For the Felling of an Elm in the Harvard Yard" Adrienne Rich
Nov 6, 202300:02:40Tap to summarizeThe Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
Transcribe →"Skunk Hour" Robert Lowell
Nov 6, 202300:02:44Tap to summarizeThe Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.
Transcribe →"Triumphal March" T. S. Eliot
Nov 6, 202300:03:16Tap to summarizeAs the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.
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