The texts of these sonic poems are drawn from The IOVIS Trilogy: Colours in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011).

Anne Waldman - Your Devotee in Rags

05 Talking 'Bout Your Molecules

04 Factor X

03 Deities in Exile

02 Local Civil Time

01 Chameleon in the House of Mirrors

Hag of Beare

Many are my Sons

Rat-tat-tat-tat

Mount the Brooms, Witches!

Kali is a Goddess

I Sing the Anthropocene Deathwish

Tears Streak the Reddest Rouge

He Shows Me

Dear Frank O'Hara

Wash the Stage

Siren Recordings is a digital, multimodal platform that operates as boutique, studio, and archive. We seek to connect scholars, artists, and lovers of sonic poetry in an online community. Following Ed Sanders, we believe that perfection comes in the poetic triad: “the spoken text/the text as beauteously presented on the page/the text as performed.” We incorporate elements of sound and music into recordings of poetry performances to emphasize the affective, social experience of poetic work. 

We value experimentation in form, both contemporary and modern. We renew older poetic works by treating the archive as a participant in the work we are making; archival play ensures that our releases blend contemporary technology with influential poetry. These values seek to serve one, ultimate goal: to contribute to the siren call that warns of the diminishing time we spend in the archaic situation of gathering to hear someone speak.

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