Jena Osman

Photo © Joseph V. Labolito

Rachel Blau DuPlessis Celebration, Temple University, October 21, 2011

• complete reading (21:08): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

complete reading (3:58): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #37, discussing Jena Osman's "Dropping Leaflets," November 2, 2010

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk Podcast #31, discussing Robert Grenier's "Sentences," April 22, 2010

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Reading for Double Change, Paris, June 7, 2010

• Audio available from Double Change archives.

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 11, 2009

1. Introduction (2:35): MP3
2. Mercury Rising (A Visualization) (17:20): MP3
3. Financial District (6:08): MP3
4. narrative section from White Hall Plus Securities (1:21): MP3
5. The Timeline for William Street (7:01): MP3

• Complete Reading (37:12): MP3

Emergency Series Reading at the Kelly Writers House, October 12, 2006

Reading at Mills College, March 8, 2005

1. Swerve (17:50): MP3
2. The Interruption of Strategic Influence (19:01): MP3
   
3. Twister (1:02) MP3

Segue Reading Series, New York, December 18, 2004

1. Introduction (2:56): MP3
2. Jena's Introduction (1:45): MP3
3. Aphetic Lexer Know (2:34): MP3
4. The Franklin Part (3:52): MP3
5. Series of Questions (8:01): MP3
   

Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]

• Memory Error Theat, read Friday, October 17th
• Saturday reading

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 8, 2003:

1. Perimetry (Tarkovsky's Stalker) (1:35): MP3

From "Memory Error Theater" (An Essay in Asterisks; Roof Books, 2004):

2. The Personal Anecdote (1:04): MP3
3. Someone Else's Story (1:38): MP3
4. The Questions (0:39): MP3
5. The Theater (1:22): MP3
6. Theater Grid (4:56): MP3
7. Day Log (2:30): MP3
8. Relativism (1:27): MP3
9. Day Log 2 (2:04): MP3
Complete Reading (17:14): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, September 28, 1993

1. Dead Text (3:49): MP3
2. Theft Text (11.18): MP3
3. from Amblyopia (7:05): MP3
4. Stray Plenum (10:08): MP3
• complete reading (33:01): MP3

Reading at Ear Inn

• Complete Reading, March 14, 1992 (30:35): MP3

Reading at the University of Buffalo, February 12, 1992

• complete reading (9:19): MP3

Also of Interest:

1. Memory Error Theater from Live at the Writers House (7:16): MP3
2. The March (1:02): MP3
3. Dropping Leaflets (5:12): MP3 [TEXT]
4. PennSound podcasts #2 and 8, featuring Jena Osman
5. PhillyTalks Episode #4 with TinaDarragh - February 18, 1998
6. Segue Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club
7. Segue Reading at Double Happiness, NYC
8. Real Life Drama (4:44): MP3
9. LINEbreak Interview with Charles Bernstein
10. Discussion with Ron Silliman, Al Filreis, Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans at the Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetry Symposium at the Kelly Writers House December 7, 1999 (1:51:06): .rm, MP3

Jena Osman on PennSound Daily

• November 3, 2010: "PoemTalk 37: Jena Osman's "Dropping Leaflets""
• April 13, 2009: "Tan Lin and Jena Osman: Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club"
• February 27, 2008: "Osman and Seldess: Newly Segmented Segue Series Readings"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2008 Jena Osman. Used with permission of Jena Osman. Distributed by PennSound.