Linh Dinh

Reading at the Kelly Writers House from Live at the Writers House episode 1,
University of Pennsylvania, February 15, 1997

Diorama (1:17)
Drunkard Boxing (0:53)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
December 12, 1998

1. "A Noise Came to the Door" (0:55)
2. "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" (1:20)
3. "The Sea" (2:15)
Poems from Drunkard Boxing (Singing Horse Press, 1998):
4. "Acoustics" (0:57) [Cf: Steve Evans' notes on thirdfactory.net]
5. "All Around What Empties Out" (1:11)
6. "My Rising Prospects" (1:09)
7. "What's My Name" (1:34)
8. "A Chatter of Honor" (2:56)
9. "A Childhood in Vermont" (1:09)
10. "The Fox Hole" (1:15)
11. "The Most Beautiful Word" (1:36)
12. "Guide to Odors" (1:45)

Book release party for Jam Alerts
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
April 24, 2007

1. Introduction by Adrian Khactu (3:05)
2. "Speechless" (6:51)
3. "Getting Up: Conditional" (1:28)
4. "The Persistence of Animism" (0:29)
5. "Nature Freaks" (1:21)
6. "Afflictions" (0:47)
7. "Deadly Bravado" (1:09)
8. "Spiralling Jetty" (1:45)
9. "Fortunes" (11:57)
10. "Book Review" (11:37)
11. "My Local Burning" (1:09)
12. "An Awful Joke" (0:16)
13. "2084" (0:48)
14. "Recent Archeo News" (2:28)
15. "Beloved Alone" (0:39)
Recording of the entire program (1:05:30)

Studio 111 Session, December 12, 2007

from Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press, 2004)
1. Introduction to "13" (1:57) : MP3
2. "13" (4:48) : MP3
3. Introduction to "Key Words" (1:44) : MP3
4. "Key Words" (1:23) : MP3
5. "A Moral Decision" (0:52) : MP3
6. "Losers" (3:49) : MP3

recent unpublished poems from Detainees, Dinh's blog
7. "XVIII in Adjectives" (1:49) : MP3  Text
8. "Add-Ons" (1:10) : MP3  Text
9. "Not Quite Symmetry" (1:49) : MP3
10. "Let's Talk" (0:36) : MP3  Text
11. "I Owe You These Lines" (2:43) : MP3  Text

from American Tatts (Chax Press, 2005)
12. Introduction to "Bearings" (1:51) : MP3
13. "Bearings" (2:10) : MP3
14. "Eating Fried Chicken" (1:09) : MP3
15. "Exits" (1:14) : MP3
16. "A Car in Every Line" (from Detainees) (2:20) : MP3
17. "Baseball Epiphanies" (1:45) : MP3
18. "Sudden Death Overtime" (0:38) : MP3
19. "Vocab Lab" (3:32) : MP3

from Detainees
20. Introduction to "Double Double Portraits..." (3:43) : MP3
21. "Double Double Portraits (long version, well strung, as in horses, as in thief)" (3:08) : MP3  Text
22. "Vietnamese for Uptight?" (3"18) : MP3
23. "Body Eats" (6:02) : MP3  Text

from Borderless Bodies (Factory School, 2006)
24. Introduction to the bilingual poems (2:06) : MP3
25. "Obsolete Maps" in Vietnamese (0:18) : MP3
26. "Obsolete Maps" in English (0:18) : MP3
27. "Borders" in Vietnamese (0:12) : MP3
28. "Borders" in English (0:16) : MP3
29. "Processed Food" in Vietnamese (0:16) : MP3
30. "Processed Food" in English (0:18) : MP3
31. "Trinity" in Vietnamese (0:26) : MP3
32. "Trinity" in English (0:34) : MP3
33. "Eating and Feeding" in Vietnamese (0:45) : MP3
34. "Eating and Feeding" in English (0:47) : MP3
35. "Liquid" in Vietnamese (0:19) : MP3
36. "Liquid" in English (0:19) : MP3
37. "Gaseous" in Vietnamese (0:15) : MP3
38. "Gaseous" in English (0:19) : MP3
39. "Wiping" in Vietnamese (0:18) : MP3
40. "Wiping" in English (0:17) : MP3
41. "A Fairy Tale" in Vietnamese (0:17) : MP3
42. "A Fairy Tale" in English (0:17) : MP3
43. "Ductless Gland" in Vietnamese (0:16) : MP3
44. "Ductless Gland" in English (0:18) : MP3
45. "Bardic" in Vietnamese (0:15) : MP3
46. "Bardic" in English (0:33) : MP3
47. "Curriculum Vitae" in Vietnamese (0:15) : MP3
48. "Curriculum Vitae" in English (0:59) : MP3
49. "Menu" (2:27) : MP3
50. "Biblical Haiku" (2:27) : MP3
51. "Borderless Body" (1:48) : MP3


to read more of Linh Dinh's poems in Vietnamese, please visit: TienVe


Studio 111 Session Produced by Michael S. Hennessey

Reading on miPOradio
1. The Most Beautiful Word (1:36)
2. A Smooth Life (7:13)
3. A Childhood in Vermont (1:09)
4. Vocab Lab (1:42)
5. Which Not (0:56) 6. My Buttocks (translation) (1:55)
7. Why Pay Taxes and Demarcations (2:36)


also on PennSound:
"A Smooth Life" (2005) (7:14)
Linh Dinh on miPOradio POdcast
Linh Dinh on the PoemTalk podcast series

Video:
"The Mind's G Spot" (2007) (1:45)
"E.S.L." (2007) (0:49)
Linh Dinh's YouTube video site

Also of Interest:
On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz: MP3 (29:00)

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