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Lyn Hejinian

"Lines" Talk Given at the San Francisco Art Institute, July 22, 1979

  • First Part (47:55): MP3
  • Second Part (48:23): MP3
  • Third Part (11:25): MP3
  • Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman

Appearing on In the American Tree, hosted by Alan Bernheimer, December 7, 1979

Complete Recording (30:35): MP3

Reading from My Life at San Francisco State University in 1979

Complete Reading (15:27): MP3

Reading at St Mark's, New York, April 8, 1981

  1. Introduction (2:07): MP3
  2. Two Cities (4:24): MP3
  3. The Green (13:50): MP3
  4. Six Short Poems (6:52): MP3
  5. Section 37 from My Life (7:02): MP3
  6. Supplement/Section 38 to My Life (6:07): MP3

Complete Reading (40:51): MP3

Talk on The Rejection of Closure, April 17, 1983

  • Part One (48:49): MP3
  • Part Two (48:16): MP3

Guess Language

  • Audio cassette published by Audio Muzixa Qet (Madison: 1986)
  • Hejinian reads Redo (Grenada, Miss.: Salt-Works Press, 1984)
  • Complete Reading (20:38): MP3

Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, September 2, 1985

  1. from "The Guard" (7:05): MP3
  2. from "The Person" (13:50): MP3

Readings at SUNY-Buffalo, October 23, 1991

  • Reading (46:25) (Incomplete): MP3
  • excerpt from "The Cell" (10:27): MP3

Readings at SUNY-Buffalo, November 10, 1999

  • Introduction (2:31): MP3
  • Happily (7:09): MP3
  • A Border Comedy (9:32): MP3
  • The Beginner (8:22): MP3
Lyn Hejinian on Gertrude Stein

Kelly Writers House, October 12, 2000

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, March 13, 2001

Complete reading (33:38): MP3

Kelly Writers House Fellows Reading

  • February 21, 2005
  • Al Filreis interviews Lyn Hejinian (1:20:21): MP3

Lecture and Reading - produced by Poem Present, University of Chicago, May 10 and 11, 2005

  1. Lecture (51:23): MP3, Video
  2. Reading (49:47): MP3, Video

The Holloway Poetry Series; University of Berkeley, October 12, 2006

  • Complete Recording with Lisa Robertson, Geoffrey O'Brien, and John Shoptaw (55:59): MP3
  • Lyn Hejinian's Portion of the Reading (12:07): MP3

Lyn Hejinian on A Voice Box

Lunchtime reading with Jennifer Scappettone and Rachel Levitsky at the Kelly Writers House on February 26, 2009

Complete reading (1:05:18): MP3

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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2006, 2005 by Lyn Hejinian. Used with permission of Lyn Hejinian. Distributed by PennSound.