Search PennSound

Lyn Hejinian

LINEbreak radio program with Charles Bernstein (1996)

(29:16): MP3

PoemTalk #15, Discussing Lyn Hejinian's "constant change figures," feat. Tom Mandel, Bob Perelman, and Thomas Devaney

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


Grand Piano Reading: Episode 10, January 13, 2023

Watch on media.SAS

Lyn Hejinian: I was originally scheduled to appear on one of the first GP TV shows and chose to focus on my contribution to GP 5 because of its recurring evocations of the 1978 performance of “A”–24, which was the first explicitly collaborative project undertaken by participants in the Bay Area Language writing scene (although it could be argued that the Grand Piano reading series was itself a collaborative project and preceded the “A”–24 performance by several years). The “A”–24 performance was a beginning of sorts; much grew out of it (including Poetics Journal). It was a beginning with a future, and when I ended up appearing on the final GPTV show, it was the futurity of the collective (and not yet complete) Language writing project writ large that I wanted to celebrate. Sections of my GP 5 essay with a few interpolations added still seemed appropriate to the occasion.

Hejinian on Scalapino’s Deer Night, Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture, Pratt Institute, NY, March 21, 2021

Media.SAS mirror URL: MP4

Lyn Hejinian on Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Zoom meeting, Oct. 22, 2020, hosted by Alexander Skidan and Ivan Sokolov, presented by Word Order