Lyn Hejinian

LINEbreak radio program with Charles Bernstein (1996)

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

Complete reading (1:05:18): MP3

Lyn Hejinian on A Voice Box, BRL Reading Series, McNally's Irish Pub, Oakland, March 29, 2008

• Complete Reading (19:16): MP3

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

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

Kelly Writers House Fellows Reading

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

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

Complete reading (33:38): 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

Kelly Writers House, October 12, 2000

Readings at SUNY-Buffalo, October 23, 1991

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

Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, September 2, 1985

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

Talk on The Rejection of Closure, April 17, 1983

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

Reading from My Life at San Francisco State University in 1979

Complete Reading (15:27): MP3

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

Complete Recording (30:35): MP3

"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

Also of Interest:

• New Poetics Colloquium, Vancouver, 1985
• UC Berkeley Lunch Poems: Videos

Lyn Hejinian on PennSound Daily

• March 9, 2009: "PoemTalk 15: Lyn Hejinian's 'constant change figures'"

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.