Hearing—Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino, a Collective Reading and Conversation: May 15, 2021
The Poetry Center and Litmus Press join forces to celebrate the publication of Hearing — the long-awaited second book in a series of collaborations by Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino organized around each of the five senses — with a collective reading of sections as selected by Lyn Hejinian from the book. The poets' first collaboration in the series, Sight, was published by Edge Books in 1999. Hejinian and Scalapino were nearing the completion of Hearing when Scalapino died in 2010. An all-star cast of participants read from Hearing: E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael Cross, Lindsay Choi, Simone White, Eric Falci, Eileen Myles, Renee Gladman, Myung Mi Kim, Judith Goldman, Tom White, and Lyn Hejinian. Their reading is preceded by Judith Goldman providing an interpretive introduction to the poem, and is followed by a conversation between the readers and in response to questions from the online audience. E. Tracy Grinnell, publisher of Litmus Press, opens the event, Rachael Wilson, also with the press, accompanies her, and subsequently guides the conversation following the collective reading.
“The forming of the five senses is a labor of the entire history of the world down to the present.” — Karl Marx
- Publisher
- DocFilm Institute
- Location
- The Poetry Center, SFSU (Remote Access Event)
- Date
- 2021-05-15
- Event Run Time
- 01:33:10
- Contributors
- Lindsay Choi
- Michael Cross
- Eric Falci
- Renee Gladman
- Judith Goldman
- E. Tracy Grinnell
- Lyn Hejinian
- Myung Mi Kim
- Eileen Myles
- Simone White
- Tom White
- Rachael Wilson
- Rights
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