New audio preservation technology just opened a treasure trove at Harvard: thousands of recordings of influential poets reading their work, once feared too deteriorated to salvage, are now being recovered. As WBUR reports, the IRENE program takes high-res 3D photographs of old records deemed too fragile to play with an ordinary needle, which can then be digitally converted into audio without the risk of damaging the original vinyl. Poetry fans will be downright giddy to see the list of artists with new recordings becoming available, including Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others.
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