Barbara Holdridge (1929–2025)

Barbara Holdridge, co-founder with Marianne Mantell of Caedmon Records, has died at the age of ninety-five. Caedmon was for many years the source for poets’ voices. The New York Times has an obituary.

Ms. Mantell died in 2023. Here’s an OCA post with a link to her Times obituary, a drawing from a Caedmon album, and an anecdote from the poet Ron Padgett about listening to The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry.