Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024) was a poet, essayist, translator, and publisher. The author of over thirty books, her staggering œuvre sketches an accretive blueprint for the thoughtness of thought, forming something like a calculus whose limit approaches the life of a mind and the mind of a life. Dissolving the uneasy boundaries between the surprising, the quotidian, the micro, the macro, cognition, memory, the (inter)personal, and the political, Hejinian’s work positions itself and its reader through, alongside, as constitutive of the intractable problems of how to write how we think, how to think how we write.

We are honored to host a celebration of Lyn Hejinian on the occasion of the publication of her last book, Lola the Interpreter, published posthumously by Wesleyan University Press. Featuring Rachael Guynn Wilson, Rachel Levitsky, Ayaz Muratoglu, Jimin Seo, Lytle Shaw, Claire Marie Stancek, and Colin Vanderburg.

This event will also be livestreamed for free on the Project’s YouTube channel.