Jena Osman

Photo © Joseph V. Labolito

On Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée, Kelly Writers House, October 15, 2024

Also featuring Syd Zolf, Laynie Browne, Elizabeth Kim, and Julia Bloch, and moderated by Jo Park.

Living and Seeing Charles Reznikoff, 2024

Directed by Xavier Kalck, Naomi Toth, and Fiona McMahon.
Featuring Mark Scroggins, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen Fredman, Jena Osman, Dara Barnat, Sarug Sarano, Carlos Soto Román, Ranen Omer-Sherman, and Ariel Resnikoff.

1. Media.SAS direct URL: MP4
2. Version with French subtitles / avec des sous-titres français: MP4

Reading with Adam Pendleton for the launch of A Very Large Array at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore, October 21, 2023

Media.SAS mirror: MP4

Interview with Chris Mustazza, Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers' House, June 5, 2019

Complete recording (22:23): MP3

LINEbreak Interview with Charles Bernstein, 1995

In her program Jena talks about the role of puppets in writing for the theatre and her work on the magazine Chain. Her program was recorded in the Music Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1995.

Complete recording (29:09): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #53, Discussing Joan Retallack's "Not a Cage"

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

PoemTalk Podcast #37, Discussing Jena Osman's "Dropping Leaflets"

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

PoemTalk Podcast #31, Discussing Robert Grenier's "Sentences"

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

Featured on PennSound Podcast #8

Complete recording (18:17): MP3

PennSound Podcast #2, Jena Osman

Complete recording (1:00:10): MP3

1. Motion Studies, pp. 36-37 ("Étienne Jules Marey and Eadward James Muybridge...") (2:05): MP3
2. Motion Studies, p. 38 ("They sit at...") (1:17): MP3
3. Motion Studies, p. 39 ("In 1878, the French science journal...") (1:32): MP3
4. Motion Studies, p. 52 ("Her body is lifted onto...") (2:11): MP3
5. Motion Studies, p. 53 ("Motion capture was first...") (1:43): MP3
6. Motion Studies, p. 55 ("All he can hear...") (1:51): MP3
7. Motion Studies, p. 74 ("The rhythms of the blood...") (1:17): MP3
8. Motion Studies, pp. 75-76 ("Each move we make...") (2:05): MP3

Complete reading (14:26): MP3

City Planning Poetics with Jena Osman and Amy Hillier, hosted by Davy Knittle, Kelly Writers House, February 24, 2016

What is a map? What can a map do?

Complete recording (1:21:16): MP3

Reading for Belladonna* Reading Series: Philly Fabulosas, Unnameable Books

1. Introduction (4:52): MP3
2. From "Corporate Relations" (4:55): MP3
3. First Amendment Rights (3:23): MP3
4. No Mouth (5:37): MP3
5. Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission (4:06): MP3
6. Manchurian Candidate (1:12): MP3

Complete recording (24:15): MP3

Reading for Joseph Ceravolo Celebration, September 9, 2013, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania

• Complete reading (8:11): MP3

From textsound Issue #17, Fence Books Mixtape, 2013

• The Financial District (14:49): MP3

Reading with Pattie McCarthy as part of the Whenever We Feel Like It series, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, January 23, 2013

• Intro by Michelle Taransky (1:28): MP3

1. From "Public Figures" (9:12): MP3
2. The Beautiful Life of Persona Ficta (4:42): MP3
3. Fong Fu vs. the US (4:34): MP3
4. Malaprops (2:15): MP3

• Jena Osman complete reading (20:43): MP3


• Complete reading (44:10): MP3

I'll Drown My Book Anthology Reading at the Kelly Writers House, October 17, 2012

1. Bowling Green (2:37): MP3
2. Bowling Green + Money (3:33): MP3
3. Science and Nature by Deborah Richards (2:08): MP3
4. It's a Jungle Out There by Deborah Richards (1:05): MP3
5. Talking Drums by Deborah Richards (1:38): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, May 19, 2012

1. introduction (6:00): MP3
2. The Beautiful Life of Persona Ficta (4:33): MP3
3. from Popular Science (17:25): MP3

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

1. Introduction (4:39): MP3
2. From "Our Real Life Drama" (2:31): MP3
3. From Justice Stevens' Dissent (1:25): MP3
4. The Juristic Person (2:18): MP3
5. The Beautiful Life of Persona Ficta (10:15): MP3

• Complete reading (21:08): MP3

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

Complete reading (3:58): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, June 7, 2010

• Audio available from Double Change archives.

Chapter & Verse Series Reading at the Chapterhouse Cafe, PHL, with Michael Gizzi and Craig Watson, October 24, 2009.

• Complete recording (18:20): MP3

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 at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, December 18, 2004

1. Introduction (2:54): MP3
2. The knot (7:18): MP3
3. The Franklin party (6:16): MP3
4. Excerpt from Juliana Spahrs Poetry in a Time of Crisis (2:35): MP3

Complete recording (19:39): 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
   

A Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith, December 9, 2004

Reading at Live at the Writers House , March 1, 2004.

1. Memory Error Theater (7:16): MP3
2. The March (1:02): 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):

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

Complete reading (17:14): MP3

Reading "Dropping Leaflets" at the Kelly Writers House, November 7, 2001

For information about the reading click here.

Complete recording (5:12): MP3

"Dropping Leaflets" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 37.

From Nine Contemporary Poets Read Themselves Through Modernism at the Kelly Writers House, October 13, 2000

1. Introduction by Al Filreis (2:29): MP3
2. On Reznikoff's Testimony (13:21): MP3
3. Authorities: a Lecture (15:50): MP3

Small Presses Dinner Panel, Kelly Writers House, March 26, 1999

With Chris McCreary, Jenn McCreary, Dave Deifer, Michael Magee, Heather Thomas, Alicia Askenase, Gil Ott, Louis Cabri, Kristen Gallagher, and Jena Osman

Complete recording (1:32:14): MP3

On PhillyTalks Podcast Episode #4, February 18, 1998

1. Excerpts from the Periodic Table (11:22): MP3
2. Invention (7:13): MP3
3. The Character (9:22): MP3

Reading in Albany, NY, Spring 1997

Complete recording (31:47): MP3

Recording courtesy of Chris Funkhouser.

Wednesday Series: Jena Osman and Fiona Templeton, St. Mark’s Church, NY, October 22, 1997

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

1. Side A (57:14): link
2. Side B (52:51): link

Reading for the Segue Series at the Ear Inn, New York, February 8, 1997

Complete recording (37:51): 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, New York, March 14, 1992

• Complete reading (30:35): MP3

Reading at SUNY Buffalo, February 12, 1992

• Complete reading (9:19): MP3

Discussion at the Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetry Symposium, December 7, 1992

with Ron Silliman, Al Filreis, Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans

Complete recording (1:51:06): MP3 [TEXT]

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1990

• Reading on April 28, 1990 (25:11): MP3

Reading "Real Life Drama", date and location unknown.

Complete recording (4:44): 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. © 2016 Jena Osman. Used with permission of Jena Osman. Distributed by PennSound.