Linh Dinh

PoemTalk Podcasts

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PoemTalk Episode #38, Discussing Norman Fischer's "I'd Like to See It", feat. Julia Bloch, Linh Dinh, and Frank Sherlock

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PoemTalk Episode #29, Discussing Kit Robinson's "Return on Word", feat. Tom Devaney, Linh Dinh, and Rae Armantrout

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PoemTalk Episode #17, Discussing Rodrigo Toscano's "Poetics", feat. Randall Couch, Linh Dinh, and Emily Abendroth

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PoemTalk Episode #5, Discussing Ted Berrigan's "3 Pages", feat. Linh Dinh, Randall Couch, and erica kaufman

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PoemTalk Episode #3, Discussing George Oppen's "Ballad", feat. Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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PoemTalk Episode #2, Discussing Adrienne Rich's "Wait", feat. Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, and Randall Couch

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PoemTalk Episode #1, Discussing William Carlos Williams' "Between Walls", feat. Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, and Randall Couch

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"State of the Union," a photography gallery opening with talk, Kelly Writers House, January 18, 2011

• Complete reading (1:07:27): MP3

Reading at the Chapterhouse Cafe, Philadelphia, April 11, 2009

1. From Gil Ott's "The City" (1:06): MP3
2. Jive and Solids (4:17): MP3
3. What I Usually Tell My Students (1:59): MP3
4. Today's Poem is Sponsored By (0:52): MP3
5. Amputated Fox (2:50): MP3
6. Reading is Linear (1:32): MP3
7. Borderless Valley (2:56): MP3
8. The Difficulties of Poetry (1:29): MP3
9. Thirteen (6:32): MP3
10. Metropolis (2:17): MP3
11. 2084 (1:12): MP3

Complete reading (45:30): MP3

Recording presented courtesy of Daniel Godston and Larry Sawyer.

From textsound Issue #3, Spring, 2009

• Cleverly Framed, Anyone (1:22): MP3

Benefit for Chax Press and Voices Inc. at the Rogue Theater, October 30, 2009, on POG Sound

Complete Reading (18:57): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #167, "Alert," with host Leonard Schwartz, 2008

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

• Eating Fried Chicken (1:08): MP3 [text]. Also featured on PoemTalk Episode 51.

From textsound Issue #1, Winter 2008

• Poems from Borderless Bodies (6:42): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading in Philadelphia, December 26, 2006

Rueful Outlay For Conscript (2:11): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #51, "With Vietnam," with host Leonard Schwartz, Fall 2004

1. Introduction (0:43): MP3
2. On nature of language; comments on “Prisoner with a Dictionary,” from Blood and Soap (1:40): MP3
3. “Prisoner with a Dictionary” (7:39): MP3
4. Associations with the word “dictionary” and learning English (4:02): MP3
5. “Key Words” from Blood and Soap (2:23): MP3
6. On culture of ‘vigilant neighbors’ (1:05): MP3
7. Discussing Three Vietnamese Poets (2:02): MP3
8. “Seven Untitled Poems,” and context (4:04): MP3
9. Discussing second poet from Three Vietnamese Poets (0:58): MP3
10. “Night’s Dawn” (1:27): MP3
11. Discussing third poet (1:49): MP3
12. “The Rivers Have Not Only Me” (1:00): MP3
13. Translation of poetry in America (1:39): MP3
14. “Letter to my Dad,” from All Around What Empties Out (1:11): MP3
15. Juxtaposition of masochistic humor and tragic sensibility (2:54): MP3
16. “Traditional Vietnamese Architecture” (1:54): MP3
17. "Old Hanoi” (0:58): MP3
18. Political atmosphere in Saigon (2:50): MP3
19. “Stewart Crenshaw” (13:46): MP3
20. Conclusion (1:21): MP3

Complete recording (56:42): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House from Live at the Writers House Episode 1, University of Pennsylvania, February 15, 1997

• Diorama (1:17)
• Drunkard Boxing (0:53)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, December 12, 1998

1. "A Noise Came to the Door" (0:55)
2. "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" (1:20)
3. "The Sea" (2:15)

   Poems from Drunkard Boxing (Singing Horse Press, 1998):

4. "Acoustics" (0:57)
   [cf: Steve Evans' notes on thirdfactory.net]
5. "All Around What Empties Out" (1:11)
6. "My Rising Prospects" (1:09)
7. "What's My Name" (1:34)
8. "A Chatter of Honor" (2:56)
9. "A Childhood in Vermont" (1:09)
10. "The Fox Hole" (1:15)
11. "The Most Beautiful Word" (1:36)
12. "Guide to Odors" (1:45)

Book release party for Jam Alerts, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, April 24, 2007

1. Introduction by Adrian Khactu (3:05)
2. "Speechless" (6:51)
3. "Getting Up: Conditional" (1:28)
4. "The Persistence of Animism" (0:29)
5. "Nature Freaks" (1:21)
6. "Afflictions" (0:47)
7. "Deadly Bravado" (1:09)
8. "Spiralling Jetty" (1:45)
9. "Fortunes" (11:57)
10. "Book Review" (11:37)
11. "My Local Burning" (1:09)
12. "An Awful Joke" (0:16)
13. "2084" (0:48)
14. "Recent Archeo News" (2:28)
15. "Beloved Alone" (0:39)

Complete recording (1:05:30): MP3

Studio 111 Session, December 12, 2007

1. Introduction to "13" (1:57): MP3
2. "13" (4:48): MP3
3. Introduction to "Key Words" (1:44): MP3
4. "Key Words" (1:23): MP3
5. "A Moral Decision" (0:52): MP3
6. "Losers" (3:49): MP3

Recent unpublished poems from Detainees, Dinh's blog

1. "XVIII in Adjectives" (1:49): MP3
2. "Add-Ons" (1:10): MP3
3. "Not Quite Symmetry" (1:49): MP3
4. "Let's Talk" (0:36): MP3
5. "I Owe You These Lines" (2:43): MP3

From American Tatts (Chax Press, 2005)

1. Introduction to "Bearings" (1:51): MP3
2. "Bearings" (2:10): MP3
3. "Eating Fried Chicken" (1:09): MP3 [text]
4. "Exits" (1:14): MP3
5. "A Car in Every Line" (from Detainees) (2:20): MP3
6. "Baseball Epiphanies" (1:45): MP3
7. "Sudden Death Overtime" (0:38): MP3
8. "Vocab Lab" (3:32): MP3

"Eating Fried Chicken" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 51.

From Detainees

1. Introduction to "Double Double Portraits..." (3:43): MP3
2. "Double Double Portraits (long version, well strung, as in horses, as in thief)" (3:08): MP3
3. "Vietnamese for Uptight?" (3"18): MP3
4. "Body Eats" (6:02): MP3

From Borderless Bodies (Factory School, 2006)

1. Introduction to the bilingual poems (2:06): MP3
2. "Obsolete Maps" in Vietnamese (0:18): MP3
3. "Obsolete Maps" in English (0:18): MP3
4. "Borders" in Vietnamese (0:12): MP3
5. "Borders" in English (0:16): MP3
6. "Processed Food" in Vietnamese (0:16): MP3
7. "Processed Food" in English (0:18): MP3
8. "Trinity" in Vietnamese (0:26): MP3
9. "Trinity" in English (0:34): MP3
10. "Eating and Feeding" in Vietnamese (0:45): MP3
11. "Eating and Feeding" in English (0:47): MP3
12. "Liquid" in Vietnamese (0:19): MP3
13. "Liquid" in English (0:19): MP3
14. "Gaseous" in Vietnamese (0:15): MP3
15. "Gaseous" in English (0:19): MP3
16. "Wiping" in Vietnamese (0:18): MP3
17. "Wiping" in English (0:17): MP3
18. "A Fairy Tale" in Vietnamese (0:17): MP3
19. "A Fairy Tale" in English (0:17): MP3
20. "Ductless Gland" in Vietnamese (0:16): MP3
21. "Ductless Gland" in English (0:18): MP3
22. "Bardic" in Vietnamese (0:15): MP3
23. "Bardic" in English (0:33): MP3
24. "Curriculum Vitae" in Vietnamese (0:15): MP3
25. "Curriculum Vitae" in English (0:59): MP3
26. "Menu" (2:27): MP3
27. "Biblical Haiku" (2:27): MP3
28. "Borderless Body" (1:48): MP3

to read more of Linh Dinh's poems in Vietnamese, please visit: TienVe

Studio 111 Session produced by Michael S. Hennessey

Reading on miPOradio

1. The Most Beautiful Word (1:36)
2. A Smooth Life (7:13)
3. A Childhood in Vermont (1:09)
4. Vocab Lab (1:42)
5. Which Not (0:56)
6. My Buttocks (translation) (1:55)
7. Why Pay Taxes and Demarcations (2:36)

Also on PennSound:

• "A Smooth Life" (2005) (7:14)
• Linh Dinh on miPOradio POdcast
• Linh Dinh on the PoemTalk podcast series

• "The Mind's G Spot" (2007) (1:45)
• "E.S.L." (2007) (0:49)
Linh Dinh's YouTube video site

Wednesday Series: Cole Swenson and Linh Dinh, St. Mark’s Church, NY, January 27, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (49:00): link
2. Side B (49:14): link

Also of Interest:

Linh Dinh comments on the poetry scene (01-18-2011 at the Kelly Writers House) (1:44): MP3

Linh Dinh on PennSound Daily

• January 8, 2008: "Studio 111 Sessions: Linh Dinh"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2012 Linh Dinh. Used with permission of Linh Dinh. Distributed by PennSound.