We are delighted to announce a collaboration with The Poetry Foundation that presents recordings from the Key West Literary Seminar audio archives to a much larger audience. The Chicago-based foundation is one of the largest literary foundations in the world, the publisher of the historic Poetry magazine, and the creator of poetryfoundation.org- arguably the most comprehensive resource for readers of poetry on the web.

Among the Foundation's online initiatives are nine podcast series, including iTunes's top-ranked poetry podcast Poetry Off the Shelf, an offbeat exploration of contemporary American poetry hosted by Curtis Fox. A recent episode, "Worshipful Company of Snowbirds," features a recording of poet James Tate at the 2003 Seminar, with commentary by Fox and KWLS media director Arlo Haskell. Other Foundation podcasts include the monthly Poetry Lecture Series, which features talks given by notable scholars and critics on poets, poetry, and their intersections with other art forms. The current episode is Mark Doty's keynote address from the 2008 Seminar, "Tide of Voices." We're told these two KWLS recordings have already been listened to by more than 20,000 people on the Foundation's website.

We're grateful to Cathy Halley, Jim Sitar, and all the good people at The Poetry Foundation for making this possible. We hope it is the beginning of a long and happy collaboration that will help bring KWLS audio to even more educators, students, and readers worldwide.

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