This April, in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Harvard Vocarium record label, we are pleased to inaugurate a series of public listening sessions on the original, Alvar Aalto-designed record consoles at the Woodberry Poetry Room. The first sessions will feature a curated selection of quintessential Vocarium records paired with hot-off-the-press records from Fonograf Editions, spanning a full 90 years of record production:

HARVARD VOCARIUM RECORDS

• T. S. Eliot: Reading His Own Poems (1933)
• Marianne Moore: Reading Her Own Poems (1944)
• Muriel Rukeyser: Reading Her Own Poems (1944)

FONOGRAF EDITIONS

• Eileen Myles, Aloha/Irish Trees (2016)
• Nathaniel Mackey & Susan Howe, Stray: A Graphic Tone (2019)
• Douglas Kearney & Val Jeanty, Fodder (2021)

In-Person Attendance: Registration is not required to attend the Listening Sessions, which may accommodate up to eight listeners at any given time. If you would like to attend as a group of two or more, please email us in advance at poetryrm@fas.harvard.edu so that we can reserve your seats. Headphones will be provided. Free and open to the public.

As additional sessions will take place on Thursday, April 27th, from 3:00-7:00pm.

For details on how to access records beyond the Listening Session hours, please visit Woodberry Poetry Room Collection of Vinyl Records.