LYN HEJINIAN & HER STUDENTS @ JACKET2

In the days after Lyn Hejinian’s passing, her students and friends reached out to each other, texted messages of disbelief and grief, and gathered in different ways, near and far, to read her work and to collectively express what Lyn means to us. This feature is itself such a gathering. As lifelong students of Lyn’s, we felt a particular impulse, a need, to assemble a collaborative account not just of her astounding body of poetry (which has been and will continue to be illuminated for years to come) but also of her expansive, transformational pedagogy in and beyond the classroom. She was a singular teacher, in some ways that were immediately and vividly apparent, and in other ways that have revealed themselves to us over time.

See the dossier of writings I helped pull together at Jacket2.