Articles - February 2024

Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024): An obituary by Lytle Shaw

Photo by Gloria Graham.

Lyn Hejinian, American poet and essayist, died on Saturday, February 24. Born Carolyn Frances Hall on May 17, 1941, and raised in Berkeley and later Cambridge, Massachusetts, she graduated from Harvard University in 1963.

Lyn Hejinian, American poet and essayist, died on Saturday, February 24. Born Carolyn Frances Hall on May 17, 1941, and raised in Berkeley and later Cambridge, Massachusetts, she graduated from Harvard University in 1963. Her children, Paull and Anna, were born while she was married to the physician John Hejinian.

What we lack in knowing we make up for in syntax

An introduction to new recordings of Larry Price’s poetry

Although broken up by punctuation and performance, Price’s sentences are robustly syntactical — they are faithful to and fanciful with English syntax, and yet they rarely quite “make sense.”

On December 12, 2023, Larry Price visited the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House to record a series of his poems for the PennSound audio archive. This complete recording session, as well as excerpted recordings of each individual poem, can be found HERE at PennSound.