ME READING STUFF

Episode 404: A Michael Silverblatt Tribute & a David Markson Reading

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:17:34 +0000

"I am one who does not think that the Earth was made for us. I think that we are first to last strangers on it, and that it takes us a good first half of our lives just to get used to gravity. That it's not easy." -Michael Silverblatt

LINKS:

Visit the Bookworm ARCHIVES.

Buy David Markson books on INDIEBOUND.

Watch Michael Silverblatt at Cornell HERE.

Listen to David Markson on Bookworm.

Episode 403: Anne Boyer & Floor Piles

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:57:23 +0000

"I think mostly about clothes, sex, food, and seasonal variations. I have done so much to be ordinary and made a record of this: first I was born, next I was a child, then I learned things and did things and loved and had those who loved me and often felt alone. My body was sometimes well, then sometimes unwell. I got nearer to death, as did you." -Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women

"I think mostly about my health, food, the past, and sweatpants. Although I complain often and suffer from depression, my general demeanor is actually quite positive. I wish I liked hot tea and stillness more than I do." -Me

LINKS:

Buy Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

Me on Instagram

Me on Substack

Episode 402: The Public Domain Review & The Bold and the Beautiful

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 04:34:25 +0000

"Twisting it in the right hand - I love another." via The Public Domain Review

"Donna Logan felt badly for her younger sister, Katie, ,who was suffering from acne." via The Bold and the Beautiful: 10th Anniversary Celebration

LINKS

Visit The Public Domain Review

Watch The Bold and the Beautiful

My Instagram

My Substack

Join Grig's Poetry Party

Listen/Watch to Anne Carson's Lecture on Corners.

Episode 401: An After Dark Special! Vasko Popa for Valentine's Day

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:42:25 +0000

Tonight, we have a Recommendation Corner (it's been a while!), a return to Vasko Popa, praise for Valentine's Day whether you like it or not, and some new sound clips 🖤
And I'll miss you forever, Billy. I'm devestated.
Love, Robyn

p.s. can you believe I'm back for a 3rd week in a row? I can't!

LINKS

Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Works

My Instagram

My Substack

My Website

Episode 400: Geri Jewell - I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:07:11 +0000

If you grew up in the 70s and 80s like me, you certainly know Geri Jewell. If you don't know the full breadth of her career, you will for sure know "Cousin Geri", Blair Warner's comedian cousin with cerebral palsy from The Facts of Life. I have adored her from the first moment I saw her on TV, and recently read her 2011 autobiography I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond. In this episode, I read to you a small excerpt from a story she wrote involving a nun, some urine, and a car wash. ENJOY! xoxo, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy Geri Jewell's book I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond!

See Geri on Sesame Street HERE and HERE (with an appearance by Northern Calloway, who I told you about on THIS episode of ME READING STUFF). (and there are many more if you just search Youtube)

Geri's character dancing on Deadwood.

Geri Jewell's website.

Me on Substack

Me on Instagram

www.robynoneil.com

Episode 399: The World Book Encyclopedia - The Letter "A"

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:06:51 +0000

Today, we head back to Encyclopedia Corner, exploring the letter "A". Also discussed: The Prinzhorn Collection, Jean Dubuffet, Hypergraphia, Emma Hauck, Ants, Animals, The San Fernando Valley, Cardiology, and Cockroaches, Nudity, and Adoption.

LINKS:

My Substack

My Instagram

Episode 398: Agnes Martin - On Beauty

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:52:03 +0000

"My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines." - Agnes Martin

"Oh really, bitch? I don't think so!" - My Body

LINKS:

Learn more about artist Agnes Martin HERE.

Buy "On Beauty" by Agnes Martin through PACE.

Buy "Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words" on INDIEBOUND.

Episode 397: Nabokov, Merriam-Webster & Bad Documentaries

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:36:58 +0000

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov

"I love ruled paper." - Me

LINKS:

Buy The Best American Essays of The Century

Buy Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder

Learn more about my drawing HELL

See James Ensor in front of Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 as an old man.

Episode 396: MY 10th ANNIVERSARY EPISODE❣️ / C.K. Williams - Writers Writing Dying

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:50:45 +0000

Dear You,

We last spoke in January and I've missed you; I've missed this. A lot has happened. A lot has not. Let's pick back up where we left off, but let's make it better and more loving this time. Let's not let the hoards of negatives overshadow the rest — the ever-present glimmerings of light. I simply can't anymore. I woke up different after that night. I even had pink cheeks for the first time in ages, according to some!

"Such fun to wake up though!
Such fun too if you don't!" - C.K. Williams

All my love,
Robyn

LINKS:

Buy C.K. Williams "Writers Writing Dying" at INDIEBOUND.

Damien Jurado's INSTAGRAM

My INSTAGRAM

Our MEAL TRAIN ❤️🌮❤️ if you're so inclined.

Listen to every episode of ME READING STUFF on my YOUTUBE PAGE.

"Keep dying! Keep writing it down!"

Episode 395: Lydia Davis - Priority (Again) & Answer Corner

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0000

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living thing is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis

"I barely know what a uterus is for God's sake." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" HERE.

Become a Subscriber on My Substack!

Become a Paid Subscriber and get a drawing!

My Instagram

My Website

My Youtube

Episode 394: The Life of Northern Calloway (David from Sesame Street)

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0000

"Help! I'm David from Sesame Street, and they're trying to kill me!" - Northern Calloway

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." - Zora Neale Hurston
LINKS:

The Wikipedia article on Northern Calloway

My Substack

Damien Jurado's record label - Maraqopa

Episode 393: Joshua Rivkin - In the Black (on Cy Twombly)

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:22:34 +0000

Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy.
Love, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy Joshua Rivkin's Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly

Here is my SUBSTACK!

Here is my website.

The Cy Twombly Gallery

Robert Rauschenberg

Jasper Johns

Henry Darger

Episode 392: Steve Zirnkilton - In the Criminal Justice System

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:35:52 +0000

"The people who have made me feel the worst were always my best friends." -Detective Olivia Benson

"I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show." - Ice-T

LINKS:

Get your drawing! Subscribe to my Substack

Watch the Driver 23 / Atlas Moth Trailer

Watch the Fitzcarraldo Trailer

The NBC article on Steve Zirnkilton

Listen to the Steve Zirnkilton Law & Order SVU Intro

Buy Nedra Glover Tawwab's Set Boundaries, Find Peace book.

Damien Jurado's The Loneliest Place and Male Customer #1

Episode 391: Sick Day

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:03:38 +0000

Dear Boss,
I am sick.
Love, Robyn

Episode 390: Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:18:06 +0000

A - ABLE-MINDED
B - BICUSPID
C - CROSS-EXAMINATION

K - Keeping You Company

With love, Robyn

LINKS:

Well, I've never linked to Amazon for books, but that seems to be the only place I see Leonard Cohen's Book of Mercy, so head over there to buy it! There's also a set of several of his books on there that look really great, so maybe do that!

My Subtack

MY Shop

Episode 389: Copy & Paste: The Cold Episode

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:46:44 +0000

LINKS:

My Substack

Buy my book HERE.

Watch American Movie HERE.

Episode 388: Encyclopedia Corner - Lighting & Lightning

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:27:43 +0000

"Lighting ranks as the most important factor in seeing."
"Writing letters helps bring friends closer together."
"Plans for lightning should provide the greatest possible light needed for any task."
"Be sure than every statement you make is correct."
"A bolt of lightning can kill a person or start a forest fire."

-All quotes from 1964's World Book Encyclopedia - "L"

LINKS

My Substack

Subterranean Thunder AKA Angela Lane

My Website

The Lightning Field by Walter De Maria

Episode 387: Letters of Note / E.B. White / My Voiceover

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

"I must decline, for secret reasons." ~E.B. White

LINKS:

My Substack

See Letters of Note on Instagram

ME READING STUFF shirts at the bottom of THIS page.

California Scrub Jay

Stellar's Jay

Episode 386: Anne Carson - Short Talks

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 02:36:58 +0000

"A trotting animal can restore red hearts to red." - Anne Carson (Short Talk on My Task)

LINKS:

Buy Anne Carson's Short Talks

Listen to Anne Carson's reading on "Shade"
(it's at the 19 minute mark, but you should listen to the entire thing)

Listen to me reading her writing on Shade from years ago.

Buy my Book on my website.

And if you're a pickle guy, like me, here are BRITT'S and BEST MAID!

Episode 385: Mary Ruefle & John Clare

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

"In the end I would rather wonder than know." -Mary Ruefle

LINKS:

Follow me on Substack: https://robynoneil.substack.com/

Buy "Madness, Rack, and Honey"

"Red" read by Mary Ruefle herself!

Buy "I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare"

Episode 384: John D'Agata & Studio Update

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

D'Agata writes in the introduction to The Making of the American Essay: "The world provides non-fiction, and humans provide the rest." My own work has been dealing endlessly with the problems humans incessantly seem to provide. In desperation, I now pray that for the rest of my days, my eyes can shift their focus to the innumerable glories & ongoing wisdom humans also deliver.

LINKS:

My new Substack!

Buy John D'Agata's "The Making of the American Essay" HERE.

Learn more about John D'Agata.

Read from A New History of the Essay.

Listen to Michael Silverblatt's interview with D'Agata on Bookworm.

Episode 383: Franz Kafka & Katt Williams

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 02:42:46 +0000

"'I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it." - Werner Herzog

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing." - Dale Carnegie

"People rarely have fun in what they're doing unless they succeed." - Me

"….ENJOY your mothafuckin' YOUTH....

while you GOT IT.

Whatever the fuck you trynna do in yo DREAMS and shit…….
DO IT RIGHT

THE FUCK

NOW.

...while yo body is still witchu….

cause the rest of us would tell you this gettin old shit is

FO THE BIRDS!

That shit DO NOT not let off...

Once it’s on yo ass,

THAT’S IT!!!" - Katt Williams

LINKS:

Buy "The Lost Writings" by Franz Kafka (From New Directions aka Nude Erections)

Enjoy Your Youth by Katt Williams (a clip)

French Fry Hustlin' by Katt Williams

The Henry Miller Memorial Library

XOXO, RO

Episode 382: Catullus 85

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:50:35 +0000

Tonight, I give you a reading from New Directions' Love Poems of Catullus
and a reiteration of my preference for the CH Sissen translation of Catullus 85.

Art event or not, put it all on a Carr's Table Water Cracker.

And if you have an interest in words, take 2 minutes to try this podcast out: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.

Thank you guys for listening, loving, hating. Always.

xo, Robyn

Episode 381: Emily Dickinson, Petrichor & Me

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 06:40:26 +0000

An After Dark Episode!

Tonight I read from Emily Dickinson's Final Harvest: https://bookshop.org/p/books/final-harvest-poems-emily-dickinson/110106?ean=9780316184151

I explain how this book by Alex Soojung Kim Pang both solved my life & ignited a nervous breakdown the size of Pangaea: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alex-soojung-kim-pang/rest/9781541617162/?lens=basic-books

Other things: John Green's new(ish) book of essays, Sap Moss, Dr. Jackie from Married to Medicine, The Virgin Spring, Leaving Las Vegas, The Elephant Man, and Au Hazard Balthazar.

So good to talk with you guys again.

Much love and apologies forever,
Robyn

Episode 380: "Part 1: Party" featuring words by Charles Simic & Melody Beattie

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:42:39 +0000

"Go inside a stone.

That would be my way.

Let somebody else become a dove."

-Charles Simic

Buy absolutely anything by Charles Simic.

Buy "The Language of Letting Go" Daily Meditations by Melody Beattie.

And thank you for being with me today. I've missed you guys.

Love, Robyn

Episode 379: Mike White - Levi's Letter from Rehab on "Enlightened" + RIP Charles Simic

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:32:46 +0000

"We're animals, Amy. And some animals like to party. For me, God is a beer on the beach. Maybe that's fucked up, but at least it's honest." - Levi, Enlightened

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships." - Charles Simic

"Today wasn't anything spectacular and that's what I loved about it." Me, January 2, 2023

LINKS:

Watch "Enlightened" on HBO HERE.

Charles Simic's Obituary.

My website: www.robynoneil.com

MY SHOP

Episode 378: Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (The Rhinoceros)

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:19:57 +0000

"Modern natural philosophers have found God in the folds of the skin of the rhinoceros." - Voltaire

"I found the saltiest, greasiest corn chip at the bottom of this Juanita's bag this morning. It totally blew my mind." - Me

LINKS:

Buy the book here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/

See what you think about these Daniel Ladinsky "HAFIZ" books: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/14/fake-hafez-how-a-supreme-persian-poet-of-love-was-erased

And please meet Rajiv Surendra AKA Kevin Gnapoor!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uo2nomf4I0

Episode 377: I'll Be Back!

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 23:55:40 +0000

Checking in after a long illness. Can't wait to start talking with you guys again!

LINKS:

Send your questions/comments/concerns to: info@robynoneil.com

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:46:18 +0000

"We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries." - Dire Straits

"I love turkey sandwiches." - Me

LINKS:

Check out the Dire Straits video for "Money For Nothing" HERE!

See Damien Jurado's website for tickets to his upcoming 25th anniversary show.

My #1 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d1eobg9QY

My #2 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SEQrHvd2o

My #3 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kGUJOnuY4

My #4 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNHTmqAny3U

My #5 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcqTZ7P_IKQ

My #6 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pegmYlozI

Send your questions to: info@robynoneil.com

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Episode 375: Anne Carson - The Albertine Workout

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 23:41:03 +0000

"It is always tricky, the question whether to read an author’s work in light of his life or not." -Anne Carson

"If you can drink a beer, you can smell patchouli." - Me

LINKS:

Check out "The Albertine Workout" by Anne Carson HERE and buy it at your nearest independent bookseller.

Listen to Anne Carson reading from "The Albertine Workout" HERE.

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See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Watch the videos about my work HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

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Thank you so much for listening.

Episode 374: Daniil Kharms - The Things

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:58:58 +0000

"I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison." - Daniil Kharms

"I'm exhausted." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "Today I Wrote Nothing" HERE (or wherever you buy books except Amazon).

Buy a ME READING STUFF slut shirt or hoodie HERE!

See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Watch the videos about my work HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

And here's my WEBSITE.

Thank you so much for listening.

Episode 373: Patrizia Cavalli - My Poems Won't Change the World

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:18:53 +0000

“I think I want, but what is it that I want?
Do I want something? I don’t know." - Patrizia Cavalli

"Kids tend to think of my violence as funny." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Patrizia Cavalli's "My Poems Won't Change the World" HERE.

Check out my American Movie podcast HERE.

Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

And here's my WEBSITE.

Thank you so much for listening.

Episode 372: Mary Ruefle - On Beginnings

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 05:07:02 +0000

"You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that." - Mary Ruefle

"The End." - Me
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LINKS:

Buy Madness, Rack, and Honey at WAVE BOOKS.

Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

And here's my WEBSITE.

Thank you so much for listening.

Episode 371: Mark Strand - The Mailman

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 03:25:13 +0000

"We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole." - Mark Strand

"Have you guys seen the new squeezable sauerkraut?!?" - Me

LINKS:

Purchase Mark Strand's "Selected Poems" HERE.

Check out my Artforum review!

Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

Check out Easton's Books in Mount Vernon, Washington HERE.

Learn more about The Trevor Project!

And here's my WEBSITE.

Episode 370: C.K. Williams & Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:24:25 +0000

"Such fun waking up though! Such fun too if you don't! Keep dying! Keep writing it down!" - C.K. Williams

"Message received." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "Writers Writing Dying" by C.K. Williams HERE.

Buy "Rest" by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang HERE.

Sign up for my newsletter HERE.

Check out my show at Inman Gallery HERE.

Episode 369: The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:09:17 +0000

"Jeff, roommate: Left my stuff all over the house; left the fridge a mess.
Mary, friend: Promised to make her a clock. Made it, but never gave it to her." -Workaholics Anonymous

"Monica, Starbucks boss: Pretended I got a "gig" in Hollywood to be killed off in a horror movie. Never returned to job.
Peter, Gallery Owner: Lied during a studio visit about how long I'd lived in California for no reason at all. I added ten years to the actual total." - Me

LINKS:

Purchase any of the Workaholics Anonymous. books mentioned in this episode on the WORKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS WEBSITE.

Visit my website HERE.

Visit my shop HERE.

Episode 368: Robinson Jeffers - The World's Wonders

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:07:09 +0000

"I have also seen doom." -Robinson Jeffers

"As you can see, I need to breathe." - Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Buy Robinson Jeffers' Selected Poems

Hit up my website www.robynoneil.com

Episode 367: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (again)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:27:58 +0000

Episode 366: Elsa Gidlow - Of a Certain Friendship

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:52:41 +0000

"I have loved too terribly and too much
Ever to have any fear of love." - Elsa Gidlow

"Indoor plumbing is my favorite invention." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Elsa Gidlow books HERE!

Poem-a-Day

www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram

Episode 365: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Rest

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:06:02 +0000

boketto - to stare vacantly without doing anything

friend - a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection

perfectionist - a person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection

LINKS:

Buy Rest : Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS

Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS

Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS

www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram

Episode 364: Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks (and a conversation with Damien Jurado!)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 27 May 2022 05:27:12 +0000

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” - Patricia Highsmith

"Honestly, same." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks

Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS

Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS

Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS

www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram

Episode 363: Chika Sagawa - Composition in Three Primary Colors

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:00:34 +0000

"The post office is a mile away." -Chika Sagawa

"Forgive yourself, forgive others, buy those refried beans." - Me

LINKS:

Buy The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593230015

Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/overview/

Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://www.inglettgallery.com/viewing-room/42-robyn-o-neil-american-animals/

Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://en.calameo.com/susan-inglett-gallery/read/006031000dd8300a9821f?pagefxopacity=0

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Episode 362: Kevin Prufer - Black Woods (and Bill Callahan lyrics)

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 16 May 2022 05:39:07 +0000

"Bury me in wood / And I will splinter / Bury me in stone / And I will quake / Bury me in water / And I will geyser / Bury me in fire / And I'm gonna phoenix" - Bill Callahan

"My favorite website is whodatedwho.com" - Me

LINKS:

Kevin Prufer's website: https://www.kevinprufer.com

Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/overview/

Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://www.inglettgallery.com/viewing-room/42-robyn-o-neil-american-animals/

Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://en.calameo.com/susan-inglett-gallery/read/006031000dd8300a9821f?pagefxopacity=0

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Episode 361: Yosef Ibn Zabara - My Ex - Look at These People - The Physician

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 06 May 2022 21:56:02 +0000

"Take pleasure today in the friend at your side; tomorrow he'll leave, and the joy will die." - Avraham Ibn Ezra

LINKS:

Buy "The Dream of the Poem" here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poem

Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/overview/

Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://www.inglettgallery.com/viewing-room/42-robyn-o-neil-american-animals/

Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS: https://en.calameo.com/susan-inglett-gallery/read/006031000dd8300a9821f?pagefxopacity=0

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Episode 359: The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, Edited by Eliot Weinberger

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 01:58:36 +0000

"I've listened to rain all my life. My hair's white now, and I still don't know night rain on a spring river." - Lu Yu

LINKS:

More on this book and where to purchase it here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-new-directions-anthology-of-classical-chinese-poetry/?source=search

My upcoming show at Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.com

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

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Handwritten Notes:
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Erin Whitehead's Instagram: @girlwithatail

Episode 358: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "A Starling"

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:47:31 +0000

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Be my coworker. I'd love a bag." - Me

LINKS:

Check out my source for this week's reading, Christopher Burn's "Poetry Changes Lives": https://www.poetrychangeslives.com/mozarts-funeral-for-his-pet-starling/

Send your questions to: info@robynoneil.com

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Handwritten Notes:
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Episode 357: Mark Strand & Vladimir Nabokov

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:43:58 +0000

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov

"If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world." - Mark Strand

"If you get a stye, you'll know you're not alone." -Me

LINKS:

Buy Mark Strand's Collected Poems: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/

Buy Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/

Send your questions to: info@robynoneil.com

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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Handwritten Notes:
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Episode 356: Choi Seungja - Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:07:14 +0000

"That I am alive is no more than an endless rumor." - Choi Seungja

"You don't want an ombre hairstyle on your teeth." - Me
p.s. I have an ombre hairstyle on my teeth

LINKS:

More on Choi Seungja and "Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me" here: https://actionbooks.org/choi-seungja-phone-bells/

More on Stephanie Goehring here: https://hostpublications.com/products/from-the-water-inaudible-by-stephanie-goehring

Interested in crafting with me? Here's the watercolor book I mentioned: https://www.powells.com/book/-9781624148804/1-0?gclid=Cj0KCQiAraSPBhDuARIsAM3Js4pDlydMLFqfiZJf2JOyp_Zati5XelnHGMbtNP3KIM3-CxBMIg6z_nIaAo9aEALw_wcB

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Handwritten Notes:
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Episode 355: Robert Creeley - A Day Book

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:24:21 +0000

"For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes." - Robert Creeley

"I will not use my mid-stream urine; I will go to the drug store." - Me

LINKS:

Robert Creeley's "A Day Book: Tuesday, November 19, 1968": https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-day-book_robert-creeley/1408332/item/2488639/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuP-OBhDqARIsAD4XHpdlixwlnKU5CcaAS7Kq8stZOC_t5pTdq5HlIFK-mhVIgVsBc5Q5vdUaApV5EALw_wcB#idiq=2488639&edition=4524274

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
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My website: www.robynoneil.com

Episode 354: Kassia St. Clair - Acid Yellow

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 23:46:15 +0000

"Pueblo, Concrete, Maniac" - Me

LINKS:

Buy The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552503/the-secret-lives-of-color-by-kassia-st-clair/

Purchase the new 10" single "Take Your Time" by Damien Jurado here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.com/product/take-your-time-limited-edition-10-single

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Episode 353: Jameson O'Hara Laurens - Spell for a Drowning Man

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 04:39:16 +0000

"Dear Everyone, Let me disappoint you." - Sort of Jameson O'Hara Laurents, sort of me.

LINKS:

Buy Medaeum by James O'Hara Laurens here: https://henrymiller.org/2016/11/01/announcing-the-publication-of-medaeum-by-jameson-ohara-laurens/

Listen to "Once Upon a Time at Bennington College": http://www.lilianolik.com/once-upon-a-time-at-bennington-college

Warm your mug: https://www.mrcoffee.com/accessories/mug-warmers/mr.coffee-mug-warmer/SAP_MWBLKPDQRB.html

Hop Your John: https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/hoppin_john/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Episode 352: Graham Burnam - The Thing That Got My Fun

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 01:57:41 +0000

"I like ancient Chinese poetry." - Graham Burnam

"I'd like to publish a Graham Burnam book of poetry." - Me

LINKS:

D.W. Burnam's work: https://www.instagram.com/d.w._burnam/

Dawn Cerny's work: https://www.instagram.com/cerny_studio/

Everyman's Pocket LIbrary's Solitude: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400044238

Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https://inman-gallery.square.site/product/robyn-o-neil-yong-kiang-hotel-lion-t-shirt/304?cs=true&cst=custom

Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

My website: www.robynoneil.com

Episode 351: Marlene Dietrich - Daily Rituals

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:50:25 +0000

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting." - Marlene Dietrich

"If there is a supreme being, he's crazy." - Marlene Dietrich

LINKS:

Buy Mason Currey's "Daily Rituals: Women at Work" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604080/daily-rituals-women-at-work-by-mason-currey/9781524732950?ref=PRHB7BD76FBDB&aid=14813&linkid=PRHB7BD76FBDB

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Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
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My website: www.robynoneil.com

Episode 350: David Markson - This is Not a Novel

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 04:07:38 +0000

“Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.” - David Markson

"I didn't breathe well today. You could hear me breathing too much." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "This is Not a Novel" at your local independent bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781619027145

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Handwritten Notes:
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My website: www.robynoneil.com

Episode 349: Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco - Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (Selected & Translated by Janet Hendrickson)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0000

"What I've aimed for as a translator is transparency, but in pieces, like high small windows in a tall room that let in only moving fragments of the picture of the sky." - Janet Hendrickson

"Uhhhhh Sebastián, lions ARE cool." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language here: https://bookshop.org/books/treasure-of-the-castilian-or-spanish-language/9780811228602

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Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 348: Wislawa Szymborska - Nonreading

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 04:04:51 +0000

"Perhaps two in a thousand people like poetry." - Wislawa Szymborska

“There’s a lot to think about isn’t there?” -Mr Rogers

LINKS:

Buy Wislawa Szymborska's "Here" here: https://bookshop.org/books/here-9780547592091/9780547592091

Buy "The Every" by Dave Eggers with my drawings on the cover here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-every-by-dave-eggers-robyn-oneil-cover

Buy my 2021 Greeting Card for the contest to win a drawing here: https://www.robynoneil.com/product-page/2021-headstone-greeting-card

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 347: Charles Simic - Dime-Store Alchemy

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:12:59 +0000

“He who cannot howl will not find his pack.” - Charles Simic

"...unusual feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment, unexpected and more abiding than usual." - Joseph Cornell

LINKS:

Buy Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy here: https://www.nyrb.com/products/dime-store-alchemy-1?variant=1094929469

Order my 2021 Headstone Greeting Cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 346: Anna Akhmatova - Seventh Book

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:36:40 +0000

"If you only knew from what rubbish Poetry grows, knowing no shame." - Anna Akhmatova

"You don't need friends everybody. Just have fun with yourself." - Me

LINKS:

Buy The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780939010271

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 345: Melody Thomas Scott - Always Young and Restless

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 02:06:16 +0000

She stabbed Clint Eastwood. She can make one tear run down her right cheek on command. I made a chef salad and don't take care of myself well anymore.

LINKS:

Buy "Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America's #1 Daytime Drama" here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781635766943

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 344: A.L. Snijders - Night Train (translated by Lydia Davis)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 01:56:34 +0000

"Everything has its story." - A.L. Snijders

"I'm a soap opera scholar." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Night Train by A.L. Snijders here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/night-train/

Register for my lecture here: https://finearts.wsu.edu/event/robyn-oneil-virtual-artist-talk/

Visit my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Support The Trevor Project by buying ME READING STUFF shirts here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

More on The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Episode 343: Werner Herzog - Conquest of the Useless

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:40:31 +0000

"Read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society." - Werner Herzog

LINKS:

Buy Werner Herzog's Conquest of the Useless here (ON SALE!): https://www.harpercollins.com/products/conquest-of-the-useless-werner-herzog?variant=32207602352162

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 342: Kool Keith & Fran Lebowitz

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:28:25 +0000

"You workin' hard lady? I don't believe you." - Kool Keith

"Are you an original? I don't believe you." - Me

LINKS:

Kool Keith's "Matthew": https://koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/matthew

Listen to "I Don't Believe You" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4Y16Hb6RM

Buy The Fran Lebowitz Reader here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/99063/the-fran-lebowitz-reader-by-fran-lebowitz/

Head to my shop and use your Coupon Code!: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 341: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (Yes, again)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 01:09:35 +0000

"You should know this: that feed is your poem.” - Anne Boyer

"You should know this: that thing you casually do is probably not your art. But it actually might be your art. Totally depends on the person." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Garments Against Women here: https://www.mobythegreat.com/books/anne-boyer/garments-against-women/9780141990217?gclid=CjwKCAjwtfqKBhBoEiwAZuesiNrZKfmdDm3cfsCp_4cA3ysYNXTUAvX3YEHFst5LXVIBjpTnI2LkUxoCXXUQAvD_BwE

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 340: The School of Life Dictionary - Ugliness

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 23:55:28 +0000

"Beauty is as rare as mass murder." - The School of Life Dictionary

"I need better bras, but refuse to wear good bras anymore." - Me

LINKS:

Buy the new Dave Eggers book The Every here: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-every?taxon_id=1 or here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-every-by-dave-eggers

Buy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/us/tsol-dictionary/

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 339: Keaton Patti - I Forced a Bot to Write This Book

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 03:45:46 +0000

"She had no horses but thought she did." -Keaton Patti's Bot

"Garlic powder is prob the most important thing to me." - Yours Truly

LINKS:

Buy "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book" here: https://linktr.ee/IForcedABot

My Website: https://www.robynoneil.com

My Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk here: https://www.powells.com/book/-9780983186342/7-2?gclid=CjwKCAjwy7CKBhBMEiwA0Eb7auLscGfwGsSozQGpn_i3kClSEhUk6NJ8ow_qAxkX0Fqxf40Cf5U0VhoCKTwQAvD_BwE

Episode 338: Etel Adnan - The Arab Apocalypse

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:24:49 +0000

"The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself." - Etel Adnan

"The books I'm reading about demons are making me nervous." - (Catholic) Me

LINKS:

Buy The 2 volume Etel Adnan reader here: https://nightboat.org/book/to-look-at-the-sea-is-to-become-what-one-is/

Support me and my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Check out the show I'm in with the Studio Archive Project: https://studioarchiveproject.com

Sunglasses? Readers? Check this place out! https://www.sunglassmuseum.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Episode 337: Marie Howe - What the Living Do

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:11:41 +0000

“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.” - Marie Howe

“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

LINKS:

Buy Marie Howe's What the Living Do: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393318869

Buy Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/154356/duino-elegies-and-the-sonnets-to-orpheus-by-rainer-maria-rilke-edited-and-translated-by-stephen-mitchell/

Check out Tyler Bright Hilton's work here: https://www.tylerbrighthilton.com and here: https://www.instagram.com/tyler_bright_hilton/

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Shop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shop

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Episode 336: Songs from the Quechua - Translated by Mark Strand

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 23:30:03 +0000

"I am raising a fly with wings of gold" - Songs from the Quechua

"I want to be on The Young and the Restless." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "Looking for Poetry, Translations by Mark Strand: here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375709883?aff=penguinrandom

Check out my website here: www.robynoneil.com

Shop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shop

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Episode 335: Reader's Digest & Spike Carlsen

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:14:20 +0000

"Garbage collectors pick up 6,424 pounds of your trash a year." - Spike Carlsen

"Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain." - Robert Gary Lee

LINKS:

Buy Spike Carlsen's "A Walk Around the Block" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-walk-around-the-block-spike-carlsen?variant=33021712793634

Check out Reader's Digest here: https://www.rd.com

If you're worried about someone else's drinking: https://al-anon.org

Check out my website here: www.robynoneil.com

Shop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shop

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Episode 334: Tomas Tranströmer - Below Zero

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 03:49:42 +0000

"We are at a party that doesn't love us." - Tomas Tranströmer

"We sure the fuck are." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Tomas Tranströmer's "The Great Enigma" here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/

My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Episode 333: Claudia Rankine - Intermission in Four Acts

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:28:10 +0000

Recommendation Corner: rest, relaxation, television, couch time, fun foods, salads, the right amount of water, markers, stamp collecting, sticker collecting, sleep schedule, walking, isolating.

Not Recommended: overuse of smartphone, beating yourself up, expecting, ignoring your body, snapping, irregular bathing, forgetting to eat, isolating.

LINKS:

Buy Claudia Rankine's Plot here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/plot/

Buy Great American Prose Poems here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Great-American-Prose-Poems/David-Lehman/9780743243506

Check out my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Follow me on Instagram (and be there for the Live event on Monday the 16th): https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Episode 332: Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 03:39:46 +0000

"I've been stuck with a smelly, actively decaying body that I never asked for and am constantly on the receiving end of confusing, overwhelming messages for how to properly care for and feed it." - Samantha Irby

"What she said." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Samantha Irby's books here: https://www.booksoup.com/search/site/samantha%20irby

Check out my website here: www.robynoneil.com

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Episode 331: Anne Carson - Short Talk on My Task

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:26:55 +0000

Shade I've Dealt With Today: Shade inside my trash can full of dark chocolate wrappers, shade in my new lip balm box, on whale skin scars, shade inside my own stomach, shade in between my lips and those blankets, fuzzy shade forcing its way out from under my dying dill plant, shade under my mouth on the phone, shade under a printout I made of Louise Lasser, shade beneath lost items.

LINKS:

Check out my show at Moskowitz Bayse Gallery in Los Angeles: http://www.moskowitzbayse.com

Check out the profile of my life in the studio during the pandemic: https://inglettgallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/

My shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Episode 330: Lawrence Wright - Going Clear

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 06 May 2021 23:55:04 +0000

"Hubbard explained to his agent that he ultimately decided to withdraw the book from publication because the first six people who read it were so shattered by the revelations that they had lost their minds. The last time he showed Excalibur to a publisher, he said, the reader brought the manuscript into the room, set it on the publisher's desk, then jumped out the window of the skyscraper." - Lawrence Wright

LINKS:

Buy "Going Clear" by Lawrence Wright here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212925/going-clear-by-lawrence-wright/

Get tickets for Damien's show here: https://damienjurado.com

Check out my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 329: Arnaldo Gomez & Mercedes Mesen

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:35:15 +0000

"My head is as big as the world. A river of the color red and real shiny." - Arnaldo Gomez

"I bought myself a glazed donut." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wishes-lies-and-dreams-kenneth-kochron-padgett?variant=32131028549666

Email me your Swan of Bees poem here: mereadingstuff@icloud.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 328: Li Ch'ing-chao

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 23:43:47 +0000

"Who's with me sitting alone at a moonlit window? ... Just this amazing thing, all grief and worry, that I am. My very own grief and worry: amazing!" -Li Ch'ing-chao

LINKS:

Buy Classical Chinese Poetry here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531904

Check out my shop and use "SPRING" in the BOOKS section for 25% off: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 327: Lydia Davis - Priority

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:33:48 +0000

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living thing is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis

"A sure sign that someone's about to have a full mental breakdown is when they start obsessively juicing." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "The Collected Stories" by Lydia Davis here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396

Shop my stuff here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Listen to Damien Jurado's new single here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_fZ2r4cj0

Check out Damien's shop here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.com

The Dash Rapid Egg Cooker!: https://bydash.com/products/rapid-egg-cooker

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 326: Aleksandar Ristović - Gingerbread Heart

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:46:10 +0000

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket." - Charles Simic

"I like watching people listen." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Charles Simic's "The Horse Has Six Legs" here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legs

My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 325: Double Mommy/Seduced and Betrayed - Lifetime Movie Club

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:27:31 +0000

"For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work." - Susan Lucci

"Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob." - David Charvet

LINKS:

Lifetime Movie Club: https://www.lifetimemovieclub.com

My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 324: Eudaimonia - The School of Life Dictionary

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:27:20 +0000

"Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms." - Werner Herzog

LINKS:

Buy The School of Life Dictionary: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/us/tsol-dictionary/

My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

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Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 323: Antonio Machado - Fourteen Poems Chosen From Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:49:26 +0000

"Form your letters slowly and well: making things well is more important than making them." - Antonio Machado

"Brie is a 90's cheese. I'm going to go buy some right now." - Me

LINKS:

Buy The Winged Energy of Delight by Robert Bly here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-winged-energy-of-delight-robert-bly?variant=32130617704482

Check out Devon from Young and the Restless here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1CHo3xJ3U

Check out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

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Handwritten Notes:
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Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 322: Toni Morrison - The Paris Review Interview

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:59:42 +0000

LINKS:

Find The Paris Review Interviews volumes here: https://store.theparisreview.org/products/the-paris-review-interviews-iv?variant=54568232

Check out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

My show in Toledo: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/telling-stories-resilience-and-struggle-contemporary-narrative-drawing

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 321: Kassia St. Clair - The Secret Lives of Color

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 04:42:22 +0000

"Light is therefore color, and shadow the privation of it." - J.M.W. Turner, 1818

"Have you ever had a black eye? Have you ever had pink eye?" - Me, 2021

LINKS:

Sign up for my "World-Making" workshop! https://www.toledomuseum.org/education/classes

Check out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

My show in Toledo: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/telling-stories-resilience-and-struggle-contemporary-narrative-drawing

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 320: A Scene from "Maps to the Stars", read by Damien Jurado!

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:38:33 +0000

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg

LINKS:

Watch the trailer for David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrOJZEdV_88

More on the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172584/

Stickers! Crocheted Mobiles! Books! Here is my shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Follow me on instagram to be a part of Friday's Q&A! https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

More on Damien here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.com

Episode 319: Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:39:52 +0000

"The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army." -Solnit

"They say my sista was rolled up in a red carpet. Ok, come on nah. Cause when they picked her body up, parts of her flesh was on the ground birds was eatin my sista's face.” - a Women on Murder In the Bayou

"I'm still mad about that chicken caesar wrap." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Rebecca Solnit's "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/293600/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-by-rebecca-solnit/

Visit my shop and enjoy 10% off of my monograph now: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

My show in Toledo: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/telling-stories-resilience-and-struggle-contemporary-narrative-drawing

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 318: Pavel Šrut - Fog is Fog is Fog

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 04:30:56 +0000

"Now that I live in the Trojan Horse, I feel so much more at ease." - Pavel Šrut

"Please God, somebody from Mexico be mad about chicken caesar wraps with me." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "Worm-Eaten Time" here: https://www.czechlit.cz/en/book/worm-eaten-time-en/

Buy my book here: https://www.robynoneil.com/books

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 317: Moshe Ibn Ezra - Ivory Palaces

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:43:18 +0000

"The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering." - Moshe Ibn Ezra

LINKS:

Buy "The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poem

Buy my book here: https://www.robynoneil.com/books

Watch Eliot Weinberger here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/weinberger/1

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 316: The Poetry of Wang An-shih

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:06:50 +0000

"Things aren't other than they are." - Wang An-shih

Thanks to D.W. Burnam for recommending the poetry of Wang An-shih!

This podcast is dedicated to D.W., Dawn and Graham.

LINKS:

Buy "Classical Chinese Poetry, An Anthology" Translated and Edited by David Hinton here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531904

Win the 2020 Headstone Drawing here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2020-Headstone-Drawing-by-Robyn-ONeil-graphite-on-paper/393046098054?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225074%26meid%3D3091af50368f4924b625d384da4a4a88%26pid%3D100290%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D393046098054%26itm%3D393046098054%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2060778&_trksid=p2060778.c100290.m3507

More on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Visit my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 315: Joy Harjo - Perhaps the World Ends Here

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:13:37 +0000

"The world begins at a kitchen table." - Joy Harjo

"My name has something to do with a severed hand." - Me

*This podcast is dedicated to Diego Franek

LINKS:

Buy The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Joy Harjo here: https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Woman-Who-Fell-from-the-Sky

Shop my site here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Watch the American Girl Movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US37aUmzELU

Watch my PBS Art Assignment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOXumLJgGg

Sign up for Daily Poems at The Poetry Foundation here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/newsletter

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 314: Jane Hirshfield - The Lives of the Heart

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 07:46:53 +0000

"The lives of the heart...thrash in the net until hit." - Jane Hirshfield

"I like sudoku now." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "The Lives of the Heart" by Jane Hirshfield here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-lives-of-the-heart-jane-hirshfield?variant=32116697923618

THE ROBYN O'NEIL SHOP: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Episode 313: The School of Life Dictionary - Anxiety

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:31:54 +0000

Anxiety is a kind of masterpiece of insight???? I'll take it!

LINKS:

Buy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/us/tsol-dictionary/

THE ROBYN O'NEIL SHOP: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Mark Strand (Book Recommendation #3) & SHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:45:05 +0000

My shop is open! Yay! Can I sleep now? Please?

ME READING STUFF stickers are available. Even holographic ones! And a new book by me. And modeliers. And bags. And tapestries. And ceramics. Yay again!

"Life is a dream that is never recalled when the sleeper awakes" - Mark Strand

"The book is a book." - Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

THE ROBYN O'NEIL SHOP: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Buy Mark Strand's Collected Poems: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/

Cyndi Long Studios: https://www.cyndilongstudios.com/index

The Modern Shop: https://shop.themodern.org/search?q=robyn+

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (Book Recommendation #2)

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:05:47 +0000

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” Truman Capote

"I haven't taken a shower in three days." - Me

LINKS:

Buy this book (and any others that strike your interest!) here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/23728/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/

Check out my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Buy your own soft soft soft animal here: https://www.jellycat.com/us/softtoys/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red (Book Recommendation #1)

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:15:53 +0000

TOTAL THINGS KNOWN ABOUT GERYON:

He loved lightning He lived on an island His mother was a Nymph of a river that ran to the sea His father was a gold Cutting took Old scholia say that Stesichoros says that Geryon had six hands and six feet and wings He was red and His strange red cattle excited envy Herakles came and Killed him for his cattle

The dog too

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

LINKS:

Buy this book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24642/autobiography-of-red-by-anne-carson/

Visit my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

See my solo exhibition here: https://inmangallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/9-robyn-o-neil-in-pieces-on-fire/

Search ME READING STUFF for more Anne Carson here: https://mereadingstuff.podomatic.com

Florine Stettheimer - Crystal Flowers

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:12:52 +0000

"I'm mayonnaise." - Florine Stettheimer

"I am vinegar." -Me

LINKS:

Buy Florine Stettheimer's Crystal Flowers here: https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/florine-stettheimer/crystal-flowers-by-florine-stettheimer-edited-by-irene-gammel-and-suzanne-zelazo/

Buy my 2020 Headstone card and/or ME READING STUFF merch here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Pavel Šrut - Worm-Eaten Time

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:52:47 +0000

The entire time I recorded this, I couldn't stop thinking about Chinese chicken salad from Chin Chin.

LINKS:

Buy this book here: http://www.phonememedia.org/artists#/worm-eaten-time

Buy my 2020 Headstone Cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop-live

Check out my new show in Houston here: https://inmangallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/9-robyn-o-neil-in-pieces-on-fire/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Eliot Weinberger - Angels & Saints

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:42 +0000

"At home anywhere, wander alone like a rhinoceros.”-Eliot Weinberger

"People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that." -Chris Elliott

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T.S. Eliot

"You never said a word to me about what passed between us." - Elliott Smith

"I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition." - Elliott Gould

LINKS:

Buy Angels & Saints here: https://bookshop.org/books/angels-saints/9780811229869

Sign up for the Zoom interview this Saturday here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9316020831114/WN_J55wMgH5RC2DOJR6aULqNw

Check out my new show in Houston here: https://inmangallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/9-robyn-o-neil-in-pieces-on-fire/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

The School of Life Dictionary Part 2

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:30:01 +0000

"I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor." - Martha Stewart

"If you like olives, eat an olive." - Me

LINKS

Buy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/tsol-dictionary/

Join my Zoom Artist Talk! Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5216014057869/WN_9CGGzvD3QDyEHqzPOlGQuQ

Buy a ME READING STUFF t-shirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Check out the good old Shambhala episode here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2016-02-04T09_41_16-08_00

The School of Life Dictionary

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:50:26 +0000

"...we have a tragic proclivity for knowing what to do but not acting upon our own best principles." -The School of Life Dictionary's definition of "akrasia"

"The idea of keeping my email program open any longer than ten minutes a day makes me want to actually die." - Me

LINKS:

Buy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/tsol-dictionary/

Check out my new exhibition here: https://inmangallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/9-robyn-o-neil-in-pieces-on-fire/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Mostafa Nissabouri - Approach to the Desert Space

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:04:05 +0000

I love mammals; I don’t love insects, but I do love The Silence of the Lambs.

LINKS:

Buy Mostafa Nissabouri’s book here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780986083686/for-an-ineffable-metrics-of-the-desert.aspx

Check out my new exhibition here: https://inmangallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/9-robyn-o-neil-in-pieces-on-fire/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en
Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Juan Gregorio Regino - Cantares

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 04:06:28 +0000

No hot pink roses, lots of potatoes. One star reviews, reading mean people. I'm always tired.

LINKS:

Buy Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry here: http://www.phonememedia.org/artists#/like-a-new-sun

Check out the viewing room for my new exhibition at Inman Gallery here: https://inmangallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/9-robyn-o-neil-in-pieces-on-fire/

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Buy Eliot Wienberger's new book here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/angels-and-saints/#/
Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Dawn Lundy Martin - From "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity"

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:43:51 +0000

"She said, I wish I prayed, I would pray for you."

LINKS:

Read this poem and find out more about Dawn here: https://poets.org/poem/perspective-supposed-yield-clarity

Buy Dawn's book "Good Stock Strange Blood" here: https://coffeehousepress.org/products/good-stock-strange-blood

Check out my Cloudmakers Viewing Room! https://linktr.ee/susaninglettgallery

Get your rainy-day-cafe on here: https://www.youtube.com/c/CalmedByNature

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Robby's Chicken & Dumplings

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:21:17 +0000

Are you even prepared for my 5-star island? Are you even prepared for the fact that I turned the phrase into "it's like smoothing teeth"? Are you even ready to see Commander Mark's outfit? Does my recipe disgust you?

LINKS:

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Handwritten Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Kenneth Koch - Wishes, Lies, & Dreams

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 26 May 2020 04:49:08 +0000

Tonight I take a break from doing my night moves to read you three poems from my very very very favorite book of poetry. Kenneth Koch mined some of the most interesting/unsettling poems ever written. All from elementary students at P.S. 61 in Manhattan.

I read you "A Colorful Dream" by Thomas Rogaski (3rd grade), "That's Odd" by Joel London, (5th grade), and "My Only Lover Boy" by Concepcion Dipini (4th grade).

Here are some links:

Buy this book here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060955090/wishes-lies-and-dreams/

Register to watch/listen to my conversation on Zoom with Inman Gallery here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sCn0FU1ZR1igSFVZJ8LfRQ

Visit NADA's FAIR: https://www.thisisfair.org

Western Exhibitions in Chicago: http://westernexhibitions.com

Inman Gallery in Houston: https://inmangallery.com/index.html

Yoga with Adriene: https://yogawithadriene.com/free-yoga-videos/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

and my handwritten notes project:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Texas Part 2! Mary Karr - County Fair

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 15 May 2020 21:32:49 +0000

Who knows whose skeleton is inside our hand's flesh, driving for us. And who knows what's between my fingers. All I know is I finally talked. I love you guys.

LINKS:

Buy Mary Karr's Viper Rum here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/viper-rum_mary-karr/634211/item/31631922/#isbn=081121382X&idiq=31631922

Check out Yoga with Adriene's 30-day challenge here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLui6Eyny-UzzFFfpiil94CUrWKVMaqmkm

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

and my handwritten notes project:
https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

A Texas Podcast! Featuring a poem by Anselm Berrigan!

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 06:47:52 +0000

Willie Nelson
Texmex
The Geto Boys
Joel Osteen
Anne Richards
Jessica Simpson
Leather face
Mark Cuban
Whataburger
Friday Night Lights
The Astrodome
Henry Lee Lucas
Lil Flip
Keep Austin weird
Freddy Fender
Lone Star Beer
Beyoncé
Texas School Book Depository
Frito Pie
Lean/Purple Drink
Who Killed JR?
Selena
The Branch Divisions
Gilley’s
Dr Pepper
Dusty Rhodes

LINKS:

Buy Zero Star Hotel for only $14 here: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

Check out more of Berrigan's work at Wave Books: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/something-for-everybody

Anselm on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wystandoll

THE DALLAS ART FAIR! https://www.dallasartfair.com/exhibitors/

Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.com

Inman Gallery: https://inmangallery.com

Handwritten Notes on TV: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

My Dusty Rhodes Poem: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2018-05-17T12_44_50-07_00

Stephanie Goehring's Chapbook here: https://hostpublications.com/products/from-the-water-inaudible-by-stephanie-goehring

Malvern Books: https://malvernbooks.com

A Conversation with Damien Jurado! Part 2

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:39:15 +0000

"back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging / after funerals we are saying thank you / after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them / we are saying thank you" - W. S. Merwin

LINKS:

More on Damien here: http://damienjurado.com

AND LISTEN TO THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d1eobg9QY

W.S. Merwin - Thanks: More on Damien here: http://damienjurado.com

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

A Conversation with Damien Jurado! Pt. 1

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 05:22:49 +0000

"I'll need a good time / You'll need a daydream / Helplessly helpless / "I am alive, can you hear me?" / Sleeping in motion / I love you Washington State" - Damien Jurado

"I felt so happy I started sewing clothes for the moon." -Mary Ruefle

LINKS:

More on Damien here: http://damienjurado.com

AND LISTEN TO THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d1eobg9QY

Buy Trances of the Blast by Mary Ruefle here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/trances-of-the-blast

My favorite Nell Carter moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kONFkc1PwCc

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Laura (Riding) Jackson - Earth, Great Eyeball

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 04:49:20 +0000

"Earth, great eyeball / Hear me, of the parasites that crawl; Speckling on you....The tyranny of body and breath / Whose endurance is an endurance of death." - Laura (Riding) Jackson

"Boo, Forever" - Richard Brautigan

LINKS:

Buy "First Awakenings" here: https://www.perseabooks.com/first-awakenings

Imbodhi COMFY WEAR: https://imbodhi.co/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4KD0BRBUEiwA7MFNTfQLn_vbX3bNp4IyvVkLEr-sd3jvEuewaAR3kSkL3L2Mbs_CV0DUABoC5bUQAvD_BwE

English Muffins I love: https://thomasbreads.com/products/original-english-muffins

Rachael Ray's Surprisingly Great Pizza: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/peking-chicken-pizza-recipe-1951729

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Stephanie Goehring - From The Water [Inaudible]

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 05:46:31 +0000

"I would remember / every pixel admit it what cry / is visible besides that animal / hadn't even been invented yet" -Stephanie Goehring

"I can't wait to make macaroni and hot dog casserole tomorrow night." - Me

LINKS:

Buy From The Water [Inaudible] here...and REALLY....DO IT: https://hostpublications.com/products/from-the-water-inaudible-by-stephanie-goehring

Please consider buying some of the other wonderful titles from Host: https://hostpublications.com/collections/all

Learn more about RAINN here: https://www.rainn.org

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

The Proust Questionnaire

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:14:30 +0000

My dad's favorite occupation is "A worker at Six Flags."

LINKS:

Buy this book here: https://www.kathykuohome.com/Product/Detail/29995-The-Proust-Questionnaire-Assouline-Hardcover-Book?gclid=CjwKCAjwsMzzBRACEiwAx4lLGzQrjoHuT67dAEiyNWjpbd-BT5RqrFM9NwIvlYe5c1fQ_pbVSfPdORoCaJoQAvD_BwE

Learn more about Cécile McLorin Salvant here: http://www.cecilemclorinsalvant.com

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Support the podcast and The Trevor Project by buying a ME READING STUFF shirt: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/2570271/sweatshirt-unisex-pullover-crewneck-black-poly-cotton-s

Emily Dickinson - Fascicle Thirty-Five

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 23:23:42 +0000

"The Sea said "Come" to the Brook -
The Brook said "Let me grow" - Emily Dickinson

LINKS:

Buy "Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737969

Support the podcast and The Trevor Project by buying a ME READING STUFF shirt: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/2570271/sweatshirt-unisex-pullover-crewneck-black-poly-cotton-s

Donate to Make-A-Wish here: https://wish.org

Learn more about The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

(Before a Hiatus) Raymond Carver - Some Prose on Poetry

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 07:07:29 +0000

Along with announcing a month-long break, I read a prose piece on discovering poetry by the short story master Raymond Carver. What we talk about when we talk about poetry what we talk about when we talk about secondhand bookstores what we talk about when we talk about fendi bags what we talk about when we talk about love. And Kleenex. And exhaustion.

I'm sorry I'm so tired and probably REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY BORING TONIGHT.

LINKS:

Buy All of Us here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24953/all-of-us-by-raymond-carver/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Laurie Anderson - NYTimes Book Review Interview

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 02:50:59 +0000

"Cause when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom.” - Laurie Anderson

"Take care of y’all’s mentals." -Marshawn Lynch

"Please god no more awarenesses.” - Me

LINKS:

Check out my show in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get stickers, shirts and fun stuff with my work on it here ON SALE!: https://shop.themodern.org/collections/on-sale

Laurie Anderson’s O Superman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mary Ruefle - Super Bowl

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:25:43 +0000

“The people you really like a lot will disappear” - Mary Ruefle

But couch studios make life better. And anything that makes it better is good. A chili dog. A note. A find. A soft towel. Comfortably sitting. Watching a dog breathe. Obsessions felt but controlled. Closing your eyes.

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle’s Dunce here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce?_pos=1&_sid=229cf5ba1&_ss=r

Buy my book here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Check out my show in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil Me on

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Blaga Dimitrova - Old Song in a New Voice

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 04:31:35 +0000

"How many millennia will I need to tear my inner Great Wall down?" - Blaga Dimitrova

"Should I make Rosarita refried bean tacos tonight?" - Me

LINKS:

Buy Scars here: http://www.ivypressprinceton.com/book3.html

Check out the Wendy's training videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXeFPpPJeI

And here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-JBFXh2IU

My show of textiles in Chicago: http://westernexhibitions.com/exhibition/the-tapestries/

My 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Yehuda Amichai - In the Middle of This Century

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 03:28:02 +0000

"And like the contours of the Judean mountains, we also won't find a resting-place." - Yehuda Amichai

"And like every exhausted Nebraskan woman, I beg that you plant my ashes under a loose tile near the distilled water at Kroger in Kingwood, Texas. And say hello to Todd." - Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Buy Yehuda Amichai's Selected Poetry here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520275836/the-selected-poetry-of-yehuda-amichai

Check out my main man Otis here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCej6bRv8lR48AEbQvdb_9Cg

My show of textiles in Chicago: http://westernexhibitions.com/exhibition/the-tapestries/

My 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

C.D. Wright - In a Word, a World

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:46:27 +0000

"...I respect extravagant expression more than reserved." -C.D. Wright

"I have seven years of saying what I mean, meaning what I say, and not being mean when I say it." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All" here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/the-poet-the-lion-talking-pictures-el-farolito-by-c-d-wright/

http://westernexhibitions.com/exhibition/the-tapestries/

My 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Shirley Jackson - Got a Letter From Jimmy

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:44:29 +0000

What is your favorite rice dish and will you make it for me? Who's Jimmy? Will she murder her husband? Will I eat the entire bag tonight? Will I also eat ice cream? Will I organize the corner of the room. And does it even matter?

LINKS:

Buy "The Lottery and Other Stories" by Shirley Jackson here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374529536

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

W.S. Merwin - Houses and Travellers

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 21:04:12 +0000

I love you, Alaska! Find your Peace. Wash your hands. Goodnight.

LINKS:

Buy Houses and Travellers here: https://www.ebay.com/i/264275300363?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=264275300363&targetid=539174338275&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9033353&poi=&campaignid=6470544942&mkgroupid=76670849479&rlsatarget=pla-539174338275&abcId=1139336&merchantid=114152743&gclid=Cj0KCQiA0ZHwBRCRARIsAK0Tr-p4BxUaBJSUqJCYWYSvbXGgKJp-sqLgWUrxIVWLtIcv7uKi791FmRwaAr4CEALw_wcB

Book Club Info: https://www.themodern.org/programs/Upcoming/Modern-Reading/5293

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Contemporary Kazakh Literature

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 01:25:11 +0000

"Blame me if I'm not at loud parties." - Gulnar Salykbay

"Please never invite me to a party." - Me

Hello my friends and enemies! Today I'm super happy to share with you this amazing book I found at my local bookstore. It is the POETRY edition of "Contemporary Kazakh Literature" and this is the first time any of these hundreds of poems have been translated to English. And holy shit they're GOOD.

Throw that trash away HARD. I love you.

LINKS:

Buy Contemporary Kazakh Literature: POETRY here: https://kazakhstan.cambridge.org/poetry/

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mary Ruefle - Provenance & W.S. Merwin - Thanks

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:46:57 +0000

"I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive." - Mary Ruefle

Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who hates and/or loves anything at all. I love you guys. And I need you. And I need this.

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle's TRANCES OF THE BLAST here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/trances-of-the-blast

Buy W.S. Merwin's "Migration: New and Selected Poems" here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BE438BB84-0D6E-4AB4-B564-0FDB6B4DB0C3%7D

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Charles Ramsey - Dead Givaway

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:23:21 +0000

"I heard screaming. I'm eating my McDonald's." - Charles Ramsey

"I heard screaming. I'm eating my McDonalds." - Me

LINKS:

Interview with American hero Charles Ramsey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLSI3oyqhs

Remix by schmoyoho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZcRU0Op5P4

The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com

My mix on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6taNqrjRkfhYa0TzTWvBRf?si=J4zpr7ahRWWNxYd6WHk9SQ

My mix on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/robyn-oneil-we-the-masses/pl.u-2aoq8ZzHGD16EkN

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Rolf Jacobsen - The Silence Afterwards

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 03:06:36 +0000

“there are no more words, from now on all talk will take place with the voices stones and trees have.” -Rolf Jacobsen

“Today I am finally the person I’ve been trying to be my entire life.” - Me

LINKS:

Buy Rolf Jacobsen’s The Roads Have Come to an End Now here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={81C7BCEC-4F3A-45A6-92C0-143511DD0B22}

The F*ck It Diet: https://thefuckitdiet.com

Friends of Hazel Hall: https://www.facebook.com/friendsofhazelhall

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

An After Dark Special! Hazel Hall - Habit

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:24:30 +0000

“I am less of myself and more of the sun;
The beat of life is wearing me
To an incomplete oblivion,” - Hazel Hall

"I'm 42 years old and upset that someone unfriended me on Facebook." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Hazel Hall’s Selected Poetry here: https://ahsahtapress.org/book/hazel-hall/

Buy Otis McDonald’s new album here: http://www.otismacmusic.com

If you love an alcoholic/addict OR if things just bother you: https://al-anon.org

Sign up for a poem-a-day here: https://poets.org

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org
And check out my own shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mary Ruefle - Halloween & Igor Barreto The Blind Plain

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:42:43 +0000

“should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?” Mary Ruefle

“I love looking at your plate.” - Me

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle's “Dunce” here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce

Buy The Blind Plain by Igor Barreto here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781935635833/the-blind-plain.aspx

Buy Stephanie Goehring’s “from The Water [Inaudible]” here: https://hostpublications.com/products/from-the-water-inaudible-by-stephanie-goehring

Listen to me on Glasstire here: https://glasstire.com/2019/10/27/sponsored-podcast-an-interview-with-robyn-oneil/

Listen to Tyler Green’s interview with me on Modern Art Notes! https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-416-robyn-oneil/

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

And check out my own shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s
Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Pablo de Rokha - Architecture of Dispersed Life

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:36:45 +0000

“I grab a tomato, I acquire the old coin of autumn, I take in a movie, I’m arranging that kiss and that verse that nested in those immense eyelashes.” - Pablo de Rokha

“I pretend to be June Cleaver, but a June with COPS hair and an old Dallas t-shirt. The word “Dallas" written in fluorescent green spray paint letters. And some ill-fitting eggplant colored corduroys from Target. A regretful buy. But we both have glazed carrots. And possibly a quiet tremble.” - Me

LINKS:

Buy Pablo de Rokha’s “Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry” here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781848613775/architecture-of-dispersed-life-selected-poetry.aspx

Visit Malvern Books: https://malvernbooks.com

Listen to Tyler Green’s interview with me on Modern Art Notes! https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-416-robyn-oneil/

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s
Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Interview with my Dad and poems from Mike Tyson & Herschel Walker

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 03:01:28 +0000

"I'm not an animal anymore." - Mike Tyson

"I like the way you ate lunch today." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk here: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passion

My upcoming 20-year survey show: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mary Ruefle - Dunce (Long White Cloud)

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:34:25 +0000

"My mother gave simple advice to all. Do not grow up to become a baby." - Mary Ruefle

"I make perfect nachos." -Me

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle's Dunce at Wave Poetry:
https://www.wavepoetry.com/collections/new/products/dunce

The Story of My Uff Ball (not well-written): http://uffball.blogspot.com

My upcoming 20-year survey show: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Ruby City in San Antonio: https://www.rubycity.org

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Briceida Cuevas Cob - Sun with Spines

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 04:18:41 +0000

"Hope wears a strange raincoat
and straps a gun inside.” - Mary Ruefle

"Goodnight, sweetheart." - Me

LINKS:

Check out "Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry" here: http://www.phonememedia.org/like-a-new-sun

Anne Boyer's new book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374279349

Mary Ruefle's new book "Dunce": https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce

Mary Ruefle on Bookworm: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/mary-ruefle-dunce

Buy ME READING STUFF Tees and Sweatshirts here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

More on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Another ME READING STUFF on "Like a New Sun": https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2018-09-20T09_01_21-07_00

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mark Strand - Dark Harbor

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 03:05:21 +0000

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me." -Mark Strand

"The answer is chicken nuggets." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Mark Strand's Dark Harbor here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/174449/dark-harbor-by-mark-strand/9780679752790/

Buy Mark Strand's Collected Poems here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/9780804170857/

Ruby City: https://www.rubycity.org/events/

My piece at Ruby City: https://www.rubycity.org/artists/robyn-o-neil/

My upcoming 20-year survey show: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Aristophanes - The Clouds

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:51:26 +0000

“Yes, you can serve me up as salami!” - Aristophanes

“If you fall, I’ll be there. – Carpet

“You are not going to escape my love.” - Me

LINKS:

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse From Antiquity To Our Time here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203921.World_Poetry

Stendhal Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome

Cy Twombly Gallery: https://www.menil.org/bookstore/products/cy-twombly-gallery

Vic Berger’s Very Best of JIMMY FALLON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MZSmfEeTY&t=554s

My new socks! https://bombas.com/products/womens-performance-ski-snowboard-socks-1?variant=navy-yellow-red

Anne Waldman - Stereo

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 07:12:10 +0000

“We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.” - Anne Waldman

“I just bought some feta cheese.” - Me

LINKS:

Buy Great American Prose Poems here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Great-American-Prose-Poems/David-Lehman/9780743243506

Come see me talk at The Menil! https://www.menil.org/events/3102-artist-talk-robyn-o-neil

ME READING STUFF episode about Chögyam Trungpa: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2016-02-04T09_41_16-08_00

Buy a ME READING STUFF SHIRT here! https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

More on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Buy Bombas! https://bombas.com

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Lydia Davis - Varieties of Disturbance

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:57:53 +0000

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living this is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis, Priority

"Don't you wish you just didn't have a brain sometimes? I do." - Me

LINKS:

Buy The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396

Learn more about this Amazon bullshit here: https://www.enmnews.com/2019/08/19/paging-big-brother-in-amazons-bookstore-orwell-gets-a-rewrite/

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

The White Pony - An Anthology of Chinese Poetry

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 03:00:12 +0000

“My life is great. And it still sucks.” - Me

LINKS:

Check out THE WHITE PONY: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry here: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_White_Pony.html?id=Pk8SAAAAYAAJ

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Wislawa Szymborska - Here

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 03:28:35 +0000

"Somewhere out there the world must have an end." -Wislawa Szymborska

"My sink smells gross." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "Here" here (haha!): https://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Here/9780547592091

PLEASE buy a ME READING STUFF tee or sweatshirt! Why? A) They're soft B) The money goes to an important cause. Do that here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Check out The Trevor Project here: https://give.thetrevorproject.org/give/63307/#!/donation/checkout

Philip Guston & The Poets

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:29:25 +0000

“When you’re in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics…and one by one if you’re really painting, they walk out. And if you’re really painting YOU walk out.”

-Philip Guston remembering something he thought John Cage said to him.

LINKS:

Buy this book here: https://www.hauserwirth.com/publications/9467-philip-guston-the-poets

A badly written version of the story of what my UFF BALL is: http://uffball.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-story-of-my-uff-ball.html

Jaron Lanier: http://www.jaronlanier.com/tenarguments.html

Sherry Turkle: http://www.reclaimingconversationbook.com

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Cole Swensen - Noon

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:45:20 +0000

"The beauty of the world is that it holds onto you; at every moment it is touching every inch of your body." - Cole Swensen

"I like watching YouTube." - Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Buy "Noon" here: http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Cole-Swensen-Noon-&BookID=123

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

William Carlos Williams - Paterson

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 04:15:42 +0000

"It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack
of what is found there." - William Carlos Williams

LINKS:

Buy Paterson from New Directions: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/paterson/

If you're interested in my book, here you go: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

If you want a ME READING STUFF shirt or sweatshirt, here they are: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Anna Akhmatova & A. R. Ammons

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:19:45 +0000

"But that wild sea-hound...unkennelled, called all night all round." - John Freeman

"...my heart flopped over and lay still while he passed (as close as i'm to you yes closer made of nothing except loneliness" -E.E. Cummings

LINKS:

Buy "Solitude" here: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics//catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400044238

Go to the fair! https://artlosangelesfair.com

Check out The Grey Market here: https://news.artnet.com/about/tim-schneider-641

Check out Iva here: https://ivaplungerboy.com/home.html

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil
Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mary Ruefle, David Drury, Tomas Transtromer & Nell Carter

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:06:15 +0000

“Give the poor girl a piece of bread, or a piece of pie. One ton has 2000 pounds. My friend is kind to me; he gave me this new book. The sun, the moon, and the stars are in the sky. Did you hear the cry of the boy who fell in-to the brook? No, sir, I did not. Have you found man-y nuts? No, We have not an-y. The eyes of the hawk are sharp. Sam found a young dead bird on the ground. I will not buy a doll, and give it to Jane on her birth-day. The Son of God said, Suf-fer the lit-the children to come un-to me.” -Mary Ruefle

“So what is this thing I am interested in? My daimon, the imagination, of course. I could give you a long list of things I am not even vaguely interested in, but many of them would insult you for I am sure you are interested in at least some of them.” - Mary Ruefle

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle's On Imagination here: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/on-imagination-mary-ruefle

Buy ZYZZYVA here: https://www.zyzzyva.org/issue/volume-34-3-winter-2018/

Follow David Drury's VERY short story page here: https://www.instagram.com/foldedshorts/?hl=en

Buy Tomas Transtromer's the great enigma here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/

Listen to Nell Carter sing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kONFkc1PwCc

Listen to the Gimme a Break theme song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmnFgKXmi7I

Watch "Shattered Innocence" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CjXEZtgU8

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

ME READING STUFF shirts available here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

David Foster Wallace - INFINITE JEST

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 04:42:07 +0000

"....'acceptance’ is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else."

"...there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness."

"...it is permissible to want."

LINKS:

Find out more about Al-Anon here: https://al-anon.org

The "Promises" of Al-Anon: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+promises+of+al+anon&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Buy INFINITE JEST here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-foster-wallace/infinite-jest/9781619696181/

Check out The Great Concavity podcast here: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com

Listen to my appearance on The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com/e/episode-3-with-robyn-oneil/

Anne Boyer's "At Least Two Types of People" here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2015-12-03T10_59_15-08_00

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

ME READING STUFF shirts available here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 06:44:45 +0000

"That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all." - Eliot

LINKS:

Buy The Waste Land and Other Poems here: https://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/The-Waste-Land-and-Other-Poems/9780156948777

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt and support The Trevor Project here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Daily Rituals from Ann Beattie & Flannery O'Connor (BONUS! A short Anne Carson piece!)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:32:33 +0000

"My habits are simple, my tastes banal." - Nabokov

"When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.” -Sherry Turkle

"I wonder if I have enough Kleenex with lotion to get me through this sinus infection?" - Me

LINKS:

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt and all proceeds go to The Trevor Project! https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Buy "Daily Rituals" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198763/daily-rituals-by-mason-currey/9780307273604/

Read Anne Carson's "Shade" piece here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/each-day-unexpected-salvation-john-cage

Listen to her UCLA lecture here: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2016/10/anne-carson/

Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313732/reclaiming-conversation-by-sherry-turkle/9780143109792/

Info on my upcoming NYC show here: http://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/upcoming

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Special Edition!

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:06:38 +0000

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am not only for myself, what am I? And if not now – – when? -Hillel

Lydia Davis & Vasko Popa

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:36:36 +0000

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” - Virginia Woolf

“I wish you secure banisters and poison-free aspirin.” - Me

LINKS:

Buy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396

Buy "Complete Poems" by Vasko Popa here: https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/vasko-popa-complete-poems-1953-1987

Buy my book "20 Years of Drawings" here: https://www.amazon.com/Robyn-ONeil-20-Years-Drawings/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543699086&sr=8-1&keywords=Robyn+o%27neil

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Get a ME READING STUFF t-shirt and support the vital LGBTQ organization The Trevor Project here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Listen to "I'm Going To Make A Cake" by Philip Glass here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfpuHdyYAi8

Pablo Neruda - Melancholy Inside Families

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:27:33 +0000

My coffee already turned cold and I say thank you.
My body can't handle much more and I say thank you.
My stomach hurts and I say thank you.
People I didn't expect to hear from reach out and I say thank you.
I am uncomfortable and I say thank you.
I will be with my 4-person family and nobody else for Thanksgiving for the first time maybe ever, and I am saying thank you.
I will crochet on the plane and I am saying thank you with every stitch and every incorrect move.
I will have an aisle seat and I say thank you.
Even as every passenger's crotch passes my line of sight on their way to the bathroom, I will say thank you thank you thank you. I didn't want to see your crotch, but thank you.

LINKS:

Buy "The Winged Energy of Delight" by Robert Bly here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060575861/the-winged-energy-of-delight/

Buy "Migration" by W.S. Merwin here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BE438BB84-0D6E-4AB4-B564-0FDB6B4DB0C3%7D

Buy a ME READING STUFF t-shirt or sweatshirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Learn more about The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/#sm.0001e7yc1j1bu3dpyz1gjgtzawrhx

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Eileen Myles - Harmonica

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 05:25:33 +0000

“Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.” -Eileen Myles

LINKS:

Buy "I Must Be Living Twice" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062389084/i-must-be-living-twice/

Listen to Eileen Myles on Bookworm from KCRW here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062389084/i-must-be-living-twice/

Buy a ME READING STUFF T-Shirt or Sweatshirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

Support The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/about/#sm.00000zms3d419g3ezex4idbtuh7n4

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Georgia O'Keeffe - A Letter to Alfred Stieglitz

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 04:54:53 +0000

“Everything war and I can’t get enough of it - and still it almost drives me crazy.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

“I like watching old men walk across streets. - Me

LINKS:

Buy “My Faraway One” here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300166309/my-faraway-one

Buy a ME READING STUFF t-shirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

More on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/about/#sm.00000zms3d419g3ezex4idbtuh7n4

My favorite Youtube Channel “BeatleBabe”: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLSyetOa-ut3483mU9GQfyQ

My best friend Eric: https://twitter.com/ChopStarNation

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil
Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Reading Collage Night! (Rankine, Ruefle, Carson, Beattie, Ristovic)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 05:09:33 +0000

"Moonlight in the kitchen is a sign of God." - Anne Carson

"The browning of tater tots in a barely-functioning oven is a sign of God." - Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt & support The Trevor Project!: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

Buy Anne Carson's Glass, Irony & God here: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/anne-carson/#glass-irony-and-god

Buy The Horse Has Six Legs here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legs

Buy Claudia Rankine's Citizen here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen

Buy Mary Ruefle's Most of It here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen

Buy Melody Beattie's Codependent No More here: http://melodybeattie.com/books/codependent-no-stop-controlling-others-start-caring/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Christopher Knowles - "Man Calculating (Crazy Eddie)" from "Einstein on the Beach" by Philip Glass

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 09:59:07 +0000

We finally have ME READING STUFF shirts & sweatshirts now!!! And proceeds go to The Trevor Project! And they're VERY soft. Soft clothes are good. What else is good? Blankets. Pets with fur. Salads. Walks. Getting older. Rolling with it. Stretching. One day at a time. Sleepovers. Magazines. Crocheting. Going to sleep. Goodnight.

LINKS:

ME READING STUFF SHIRTS!!! https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

Buy "Music by Philip Glass" here: https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/MUSIC-PHILIP-GLASS-Harper-Row/526474547/bd

More on Christopher Knowles here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Knowles

The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/about/#sm.00000d0qe9aog8d0vzdh7iaayab9p

Zum Laundry Stuff: https://www.indigowild.com/home-cleaning/zum-clean-laundry-soap.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Marosa di Giorgio - I Remember Nightfall

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:21:33 +0000

...and he chased me without end.

LINKS:

Buy "I Remember Nightfall" here: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=8388607

Support Malvern Books in Austin: http://malvernbooks.com

The Great Stephanie Goehring: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring

My show in Kalamazoo: https://wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/archive/2018-19/robyn-oneil.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Juan Gregorio Regino - I Know the World's Tongue

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:01:21 +0000

Sorry about the blanket statement on Californians. When I get back to the middle of the country, I turn a bit hostile towards the kindness level on the coasts. I like people pleasant. Kill me.

I met the sweetest woman named Sandy on a plane yesterday. She told me she lost her husband (to a heart attack), daughter (to an overdose), and granddaughter (to suicide). All in 2 years. She bought herself a beach cruiser bike in pink (because her daughter and granddaughter love pink) and she's going to ride it around her neighborhood every evening this Fall.

LINKS:

Buy "LIKE A NEW SUN: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry" here: http://www.phonememedia.org/like-a-new-sun/

In Austin, head to Malvern Books: http://malvernbooks.com

Check out updates from Stephanie Goehring here: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring?lang=en

Me in Kalamazoo: https://wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/visitingartists/archive/2018-19/oneil.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Vaslav Nijinsky - The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 08:35:57 +0000

"I am a bandit myself because I kill my brain." - Vaslav Nijinsky

LINKS:

Buy The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/48bdm7sz9780252073625.html

Follow bansee_beats here: https://www.instagram.com/banshee_beats/

or here: https://twitter.com/banshee_beats

Follow Dasi B studio here: https://www.instagram.com/dasibstudio/

Follow Erica who told the story about her grandparents’ drivers licenses here: https://www.instagram.com/hairica_styles/

or here: https://twitter.com/ericunnt

Nan Shepherd - The Living Mountain

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:46:18 +0000

I see long stemmed roses, but only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

LINKS:

Buy The Living Mountain here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-living-mountain-nan-shepherd/1014931494/2675516716974?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Marketplace+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP211671&gclid=CjwKCAjwzqPcBRAnEiwAzKRgS21MHZNQ3wX52PLVjnRQMpN5_6N7jwdLAOjI9ud4IsGgCc8GhyGl8RoC2ZsQAvD_BwE

Check out Tyler Bright Hilton's work here: https://www.tylerbrighthilton.com

Here's the afghan from Roseanne: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/31/16/4AB920C400000578-5565053-image-m-3_1522510597687.jpg

Come to my reading this Sunday afternoon. Facebook info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/299473877522354/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Tom O'Bedlam - Anonymous Mad Song ≈1620 (from Harold Bloom's How To Read & Why)

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 06:41:12 +0000

Angry Showers.
Me and the strangers in the bubble bath aisle.
Angry Showers, Sad Baths.

LINKS:

Buy Harold Bloom’s "How to Read and Why” here: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Read-and-Why/Harold-Bloom/9780684859071

LA, I’m ready MY OWN WRITING! BE THERE! Sept 2nd, 3pm: http://www.thepophop.com

Michigan, let’s do this:
https://wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/archive/2018-19/robyn-oneil.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Pablo Neruda - Reject the Lightning

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:15:06 +0000

Be good, be you. You be you, they be they.

LINKS:

Buy Pablo Neruda's The Yellow Heart here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B789172C5-292C-43C6-B03F-79F19678A5EF%7D

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Joanne Kyger - The Art of Living Slowly

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:24:06 +0000

"It's true, hope can cause pain." - Joanne Kyger

"I one time met an Australian person online and I said something about liking chips and dips and they go 'Oh, I've heard that people eat dip. What is dip?'" -Me

"Violence is not a mystery. Or if it is, the solution is so much bigger than just finding out who did it. Whenever there’s a mass shooting, people want to know why. We want to have a motive, and then when we get the motive, it’s always incredibly dissatisfying — because there’s nothing that could justify shooting a bunch of people, and that’s also true of killing anyone." - Alice Bolin

LINKS:

Buy Kyger's ON TIME here: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100025950

Buy Alice Bolin's DEAD GIRLS here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062657145/dead-girls/

Follow Alice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alicebolin?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Buy Jared Stanley's EARS: http://nightboat.org/title/ears

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Donald Hall & Charles Schulz

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 06:40:05 +0000

Dream Rituals: constant food prep, daily baths, daily reading for 24 hours a day, daily taking walks at least 3 hours a day (slowly), effortlessly cleaning, making bookmarks for friends and family with their favorite people on them, stretching at least 30 minutes twice a day, taking a nap without guilt, etc. etc. etc.

LINKS:

My Seattle show: http://season.cz/exhibit/

Buy Donald Hall's White Apples and the Taste of Stone: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/white-apples-and-the-taste-of-stone-donald-hall/1100303386?ean=9780618919994&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP211455&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-JvaBRDGARIsAFjqkkqODENGPBa2_C6tVcbDlDLgIncUF-hhsAjKyXUzxvT1RJr88stqHYwaAq7eEALw_wcB

Buy Anne Boyer's new book here: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=558

Buy Daily Rituals by Mason Currey here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198763/daily-rituals-by-mason-currey/9780307273604/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Anne Boyer - No

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 03:22:55 +0000

"I like no." -Anne Boyer
"I like no." -Robyn O'Neil

"History is full of people who just didn't." - Anne Boyer
"Kill your rapists." -Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Buy A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=558

Buy Garments Against Women: https://ahsahtapress.org/product/boyer-garments/

Anne Boyer's Website: http://www.anneboyer.com

Anne Boyer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anne_boyer

Jason Prue: https://jasonpreu.com

My show here in LA at Steve Turner Gallery: http://steveturner.la/exhibition/through-line-drawing-weaving-by-18-artists

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Koko the Gorilla - I am Flowers

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 03:41:19 +0000

I lied about the sunset.

LINKS:

Koko's poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=FVuNTiqHys0

Adrienne Butler: https://www.adriennerbutler.com

Won't You Be My Neighbor documentary trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwktRDG_aQ

Mark Strand - Hermetic Melancholy

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:32:00 +0000

I wrote a whole awesome thing and then my computer broke down (meaning I lost it) so I don't feel like writing anything again. But basically, sorry I keep talking about other people's urine.

LINKS:

Buy Mark Strand's Almost Invisible here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215194/almost-invisible-by-mark-strand/9780375712180/

Upcoming show at Steve Turner: http://steveturner.la/exhibition/through-line-drawing-weaving-by-18-artists

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Anne Carson - Each Day Unexpected Salvation (John Cage)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:37:58 +0000

THE SHADE I WITNESS ON MY DUSK-TIME WALKS, WATCHING WINDOWS: shade made by a man's thumb on a remote control, open car door shade, garage door closing shade, a dog's tennis ball on grass shade, one crumpled napkin on a table shade, kid on the corner of a couch shade, Larry's shade.

LINKS:

Link to this poem in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/each-day-unexpected-salvation-john-cage

Link to buy FLOAT: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532529/float-by-anne-carson/9781101946848/

Link to Anne Carson's reading & performance at UCLA's The Hammer: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2016/10/anne-carson/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Dubravka Ugresic - Pavlik Morozov

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 03:43:59 +0000

Is the world populated by children? Have you had any? If so, why? If not, why? Do you suck on adult bottles? Do I? Can't wait to read that essay on happiness.

LINKS:

Buy “Nobody’s Home” by Dubravka Ugresic (Essays) here: https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/nobodys-home

Previous Dubravka Ugresic episode:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2018-03-22T21_55_49-07_00

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Jamaica Kincaid - The Letter From Home

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 25 May 2018 00:21:06 +0000

Don't murder me, don't murder her. Don't murder him and don't be hateful to that group of humans. Also don't hunt. Plant something and call home. Don't throw up unless you're on chemo (or dealing with something similar), and enjoy your breezes. I am your friend, but I can't always be there.

LINKS:

Buy "short", edited by Alan Ziegler here: http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=109

Learn more about Jamaica Kincaid (and how she hates happy endings) here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/09/jamaica-kincaid-hates-happy-endings/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Dusty Rhodes - Hard Time Blues

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 17 May 2018 19:44:50 +0000

"Hey, a computer took your place, Daddy." - Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream

"Hey, I'm about to make a Buddha Bowl, Daddy." - Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Dusty Rhodes "Hard Time Blues" Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9py4aMK3aIU

Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passion

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

A Diary Entry from when I was in 6th Grade.

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 02 May 2018 04:37:48 +0000

Just wanted to say a proper goodbye since I don't know when exactly I'll be back. I'll do my best to return to boring you to death with questions about foodstuffs ASAP. I love you guys!

LINKS:

https://www.robynoneil.com

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Vasco Popa - Before Play (Unrest-Field)

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:07:08 +0000

"Will I be able
On this unrest-field
To raise you a tent of my hands"
-Far Within Us (1943) (Popa)

"I will be able
Under this peaceful strike
To bury you fields of surrender"
-Far Past This (2018) (O'Neil)

LINKS:

Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/vasko-popa-complete-poems-1953-1987

My show in Houston: https://www.deasil.art

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Ted Kooser - Pearl

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:23:13 +0000

"It's Ted. It's Vera's Boy." -Ted Kooser
"It's Robyn. It's Jim and Wendy's girl." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Delights & Shadows here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B5DB744E9-E4AB-4314-A21F-C4C84A317273%7D

Dubravka Ugrešić - Unknown Title

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:55:49 +0000

I had a rectangular pupil. I had a hot dog shaped pupil. I had a clover shaped pupil. And now it is round.

LINKS:

Buy Ugrešić's book and learn more about her from New Directions: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/dubravka-ugresic/

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Andrew Weatherhead - The Origin of the World

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 04:46:05 +0000

Today I tell the story of “Barry”, a man who offered to pay me $40,000 for 2 hours of work. Nope, it wasn’t for sex work! Listen to this podcast to find out what he wanted me to do. But more importantly, listen to hear from TODD:

“Even when your own biography is breaking and entering into taboo areas, blazing and stabbing and juicing the days into their glistening parts our stories deepen as they go, finally revealing something not unlike the origin of the world.” Andrew Weatherhead

LINKS:

Buy Andrew Weatherhead’s book TODD here: https://monsterhousepress.com/books/todd-andrew-weatherhead

Follow Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/weeatherhead?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Follow Andrew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeatherhead/

TODD release party in NYC: https://www.facebook.com/events/1794628867506303/

Go to Matthew Sontheimer’s show at The Union in Omaha, NE! http://www.u-ca.org/exhibition/

Clarice Lispector - Near to the Wild Heart

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 03:53:03 +0000

"Being happy is for what?"

LINKS:

Buy Near to the Wild Heart here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/near-to-the-wild-heart1/

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Microwave-able Heating Pads: https://www.thewarmingstore.com/herbal-heat-pack.html?productid=herbal-heat-pack&channelid=FROOG&utm_source=CSE&utm_medium=GoogleShopping&utm_campaign=SolidCactus&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5t7UBRDaARIsAOreQthOM1XP7aBw20K_dc0NllDnA4mSFnMUPcQSs8EnD6H2zfd_PRcBx8EaAplIEALw_wcB

Kevin Corrigan - Robyn O'Neil - W.S. Merwin

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:53:39 +0000

Tonight is the night I finally share the Q&A I did with Kevin Corrigan in NYC in January. Truly the highlight of my life. Listen here to hear him perform a dramatic reading of a poem he constructed out of the titles of my drawings. I still kind of do not believe this happened. But there is this recording of it, so apparently it did. But I still don't think so. Maybe nothing in my life has happened. Wouldn't that be something.

“The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.” -W.S. Merwin

LINKS:

Video of my Q&A w/ Kevin Corrigan!: https://www.facebook.com/SusanInglettGallery/videos/10155998518482173/

Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinFCorrigan

Kevin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinfcorrigan/?hl=en

Kevin on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180984/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Kevin's band Crystal Robots: https://crystalrobots.bandcamp.com

Buy my book here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

My NYC gallery: http://www.inglettgallery.com

Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passion

Charles Baudelaire - Spleen

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:11:00 +0000

Special thanks to my backup choir: Frankie and The Driers.

Also, about that room I am. The most trafficked bathroom in a family home. I've seen things is what that means. I've seen things and have been forced to accept the worst & most human of things. Imagine it. I love you.

LINKS:

Buy Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-flowers-of-evil-charles-baudelaire/1125411806/2675900699807?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Catch-All,+Low_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP79700&gclid=CjwKCAiAn5rUBRA3EiwAUCWb2wj_VliX6UFIXAVeURw1b3dZiIaquJds3NoXeQFjbOkJHLYRKSIzzhoCSk8QAvD_BwE

Learn more about artist Tyler Bright Hilton here: http://www.tylerbrighthilton.com

Listen to the Sally Mann interview here: https://soundcloud.com/nypl/sally-mann-on-cy-twombly-and-the-babushkas-who-saved-russian-art

Cy Twombly Gallery: https://www.menil.org/campus/cy-twombly-gallery

Watch the Sally Mann documentary here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/what-remains-the-life-and-work-of-sally-mann/id564037055

Learn more about artist Amy Talluto here: http://www.amytalluto.com

Stendhal Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome

Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (An After Dark Podcast!)

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:54:01 +0000

"In the Aztec empire, every fifty-two years, once in an average lifetime, the world was on the verge of coming to an end. The sun would no longer move, night would be eternal, and man-eating demons would descend to rule the earth." - Eliot Weinberger

"In Kingwood, Texas, one afternoon in 2008, a woman and her dog Henry took a walk around their blistering neighborhood. A trio of preteen boys shouted a question at the woman: "Why are you so ugly?", and the woman now regrets not having released her man-eating demon to exact revenge on the little creeps." - Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Find out where to buy Eliot Weinberger's "An Elemental Thing" on the New Directions site here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/

See the trailer for my film WE, THE MASSES here: https://vimeo.com/26486761

More on director Eoghan Kidney here: http://cargocollective.com/kidney

Info on my Ohio exhibition here: https://www.wooster.edu/arts/museum/exhibit/current/

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Vera Sola - Instrument of War (Virago)

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:37:36 +0000

Let's talk about little girl's skulls & 13 year-old boys drawing. Let's talk about you saddling horses and then we'll watch what you got in store. Let's talk about green onions and terra cotta (just to lighten the mood). Then push me out of your car. I'll dream of tigers. I'll continue to be loud and too much and big.

XO, Robyn

LINKS:

Instagram: @vera.sola
FB: Facebook.com/verasolasound
Web: www.verasola.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/verasola
Twitter: @verasolasound

UPCOMING NYC SHOW!:
Vera Sola performing w/ Aster String Quartet
January 30, 2018
Public Arts Space at the Public Hotel on Chrystie Street
Doors open at 8pm
$10
Event info and tickets:
https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1622019

Free Download of LAST CARESS: https://verasola.bandcamp.com

ME on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil
ME on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mark Borchardt - American Movie

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:25:52 +0000

I'm on fire in an annoying way tonight. But don't worry, I apologize for it. There was also a bit of a snafu where I almost told you to watch the new CAT STEVENS comedy special on Netflix. Can you imagine that shit? Someone should make that for real. And lastly my leaky, unsteady heart set off an impassioned round of applause for each one of you.

LINKS:

Trailer for American Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23usoyDRLtQ

The Great Concavity Podcast: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com

My appearance on The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com/e/episode-3-with-robyn-oneil/

Matt Bucher on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattbucher?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

David Drury on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davdrury?lang=en

Folded Shorts on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foldedshorts/

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Mary Ruefle - On Imagination

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 02:17:48 +0000

My hotel was worried about me, I bought a cookie, I am a bat and a coyote, I will write tonight, I have things going on.

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle's On Imagination here: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/on-imagination-mary-ruefle

Come see me and Kevin Corrigan Saturday NYC!: http://www.inglettgallery.com/content/3-news/20180113-robyn-o-neil-kevin-corrigan/o-neil_invitation.pdf

Hit me up on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Talk to me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Martha Ronk - Baked Potato

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:47:30 +0000

"For my sisters who remember everything differently..."

LINKS:

Buy "Displeasures of the Table" here: http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Martha-Ronk-Displeasures-of-the-Table-&BookID=44

My SVA evening on Jan 9th: http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/robyn-oneil-lecture-and-screening

Info about my book signing at Susan Inglett Gallery on Jan 13th: http://www.inglettgallery.com

Trailer for my film WE, THE MASSES: https://vimeo.com/26486761

Malvern Books: http://malvernbooks.com

Stephanie Goehring: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring

Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 01:29:29 +0000

"Overheard in the moonlight.
Overcome in the moonlight." - Claudia Rankine

I love listening to you.

LINKS:

Buy Citizen here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen

Learn more about HERO TO THE WORLD Claudia Rankine here: http://claudiarankine.com

Buy the book of my artwork here (just click under HARDCOVER and there are plenty available still): https://www.amazon.com/Robyn-ONeil-20-Years-Drawings/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514509462&sr=8-1&keywords=20+years+of+drawing

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

After Dark Special! Gary Snyder & Anne Carson

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 04:21:48 +0000

“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” -Gary Snyder

Tonight I talk (again) about the ample chest of my grandma and what that meant to me when we hugged. After that, I accidentally talk shit about people who have muscles. And then I read a couple of very short poems & end the podcast more satisfied with life than I've ever sounded in the history of my time on the planet. It was kinda strange. But really good. And I'm back to normal already, so I'm really glad I got to spend that minute with you.

Lots of love to you all as this year approaches a full dissolve. While the 2017 You melts away, I wish you a 2018 brighter and stronger than you could have imagined. We're all in this together.

LINKS:

Buy Gary Snyder's "This Present Moment" here: http://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/this-present-moment/

Buy Anne Carson's Plainwater here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24646/plainwater-by-anne-carson/9781101911273/

Nat Evans Twitter: https://twitter.com/natevans__

Nat Evans Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natevans__/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Danica Vukićević (translated by Charles Simic) - Ave

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:19:52 +0000

"I forgot who said, 'The poet is like a mechanic in love with the engine of his car.' " - Charles Simic

"I love dark, royalty free hip hop." -Me

LINKS:

Buy The Horse Has Six Legs here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legs

Learn more about Charles Simic here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/charles-simic

Listen to my interview on We Eat Art here: http://www.weeatart.com/blog/2017/12/21/episode-20-robyn-oneil

Consider contributing to their Patreon so that they can continue putting out more and more episodes with great artists! https://www.patreon.com/weeatart

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Anonymous (Alsea Tribe) - Moon Eclipse Exorcism

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:53:56 +0000

Fuzzy things, apples, water, dusk, pencils, good books, nice people, funny people, couches and cooking magazines, extreme weather, people's necks, water again, walking, creating healthy boundaries, taking notes, reading, taking baths, grandmas, potatoes, salads, potato salad, vinegar, pickles, blankets, soft clothes, silence, accepting, making sure people know they're loved.

LINKS:

Look how cheap WORLD POETRY is! $1.99 for a book w/ over 1,000 pages of poetry!: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/world-poetry-clifton-fadiman/1122987694/2677020633099?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Marketplace+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP164998&gclid=Cj0KCQiA38jRBRCQARIsACEqIeu2MAzy-k4UtA8EF6qo-BRGa49L9dAEh-fhCw-K824GmNstcwK1bTEaAtaDEALw_wcB

Here's my book on Amazon (it looks sold out, but it's not!): https://www.amazon.com/Robyn-ONeil-20-Years-Drawings/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513297859&sr=8-1&keywords=robyn+o%27neil

Here's my book at Archon: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

W.H. Auden - Musee des Beaux Arts

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 23:10:16 +0000

I will be feet from John Goodman tomorrow. My energy level is low. I once went to the proctologist. I'm vulnerable and I like that. The horse knows that his owner is a torturer. Watch your back.

LINKS:

Buy W.H. Auden's Collected Poems here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/6183/collected-poems-by-w-h-auden/

Amazon link to my book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0692896511/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1512687788&sr=8-1

Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_Icarus

The Great Concavity (David Foster Wallace podcast): https://greatconcavity.podbean.com

My appearance on The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com/?s=robyn+

Archon Projects: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas - Sam Shepard/Harry Dean Stanton "I Knew These People"

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:56:46 +0000

I knew these people. These two people. They were in love with each other.

LINKS:

Sam Shepard: http://www.sam-shepard.com

The audio of this scene: http://theresearchsociety.tumblr.com/post/12347992593/i-knew-these-people-ry-cooder-with-harry-dean

Wim Wenders: http://www.wim-wenders.com

Paris, Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Benjamin Horne of Twin Peaks - "I Loved That Bike" (An After Dark! Podcast)

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 02:58:58 +0000

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." - Anton Chekhov

"Drink some water, eat an apple, be quiet, take a walk, and get the fuck outta here!" - Me

LINKS:

Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) and his bike story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9QihlBt5Mo

Western Exhibitions in Chicago: http://westernexhibitions.com

My favorite Tig Notaro performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwzYB545hY

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

Me: https://www.robynoneil.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Tomas Tranströmer - Below Zero

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:09:08 +0000

Today, Thanksgiving, I finally tell you my Christian Bale fight story. It's too bad I did a terrible job of telling it. Whether you're sweating in the kitchen, hiding resentments or just being forced to hug a weird cousin, spend a little time with me. Go outside and hide for a while. Take some breaths. Remember it'll all be over soon. And hey, if you're one of those Americans that just loves the Holidays and is having a blast with your family, GOOD FOR YOU! Keep it up. Sorry for my negativity/reality. Keep coming back. I love you too.

LINKS:

Buy Tomas Tranströmer's The Great Enigma here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/

Buy my book "Robyn O'Neil: 20 Years of Drawings" here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

AFTER DARK! Elena Passarello - Animals Strike Curious Poses

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 03:46:09 +0000

Dear Reader, Remember Aileen Wuornos' hair? That's what mine looks like right now. I always thought I kinda looked like her (with more frequent baths) anyway. I'm downing sparkling water and Alka Seltzer. This is my bacchanal. With love, Robyn

Year by year
the monkey's mask
reveals the monkey.
-Basho

LINKS:

Buy "Animals Strike Curious Poses" here: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/animals-strike-curious-poses-elena-passarello

Buy "The World Doesn't End" here: https://olivesbooks.com/products/9780156983501-0156983508-the-world-doesnt-end

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

More on Nebraska Killer/Nail Expert Steven Roy Harper here: http://www.thedarksideofamerica.com/harper-steven-ne.html

Kaveh Akbar - Some Boys Aren't Born They Bubble

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:49:02 +0000

I don't know if I'm capable of ANYTHING at this point or ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I did just go to the grocery store in a city I'm not familiar with just to get Saltines, so I accomplished that. I love Saltines and am 100% more comfortable when I have them at arm's length. I also just put on my sweatpants again because I have two hours to kill. That counts for something. I guess I'm equating "doing something" with being comfortable? I could aim for worse.

LINKS:

Buy Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf here: http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/calling-a-wolf-a-wolf/

Follow Akbar's INCREDIBLE twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/KavehAkbar

Check out the new issue of Nat. Brut here: https://www.natbrut.com

Info on my show in Winston-Salem, NC at SECCA is here: http://secca.org/calendar-detail.php?EventOccId=824398142

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

I love you!

Marina Tsvetaeva - Letter to the Amazon

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:27:09 +0000

In summary, I DON'T have a crush on Jeffrey Dahmer even though I pretty much said I did. I DO have a crush on Rainboy. I AM very depressed right now. I WILL be in San Francisco this weekend. I WILL kick you out of the podcast if you're an awful human being. I DO have a perfectionism issue. I wish things were different, I want to tell you you'll be happy, and I DO love you. Many thanks for listening and I'm sorry for so many things.

Also, shoutout to the person who posted that they actually read these little blurbs I write! Thank you fam.

LINKS:

Buy Marina Tsvetaeva’s Letter to the Amazon here: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=531

My book: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

San Francisco’s Book Signing Event: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bardq0ChT1q/?taken-by=robyn_oneil

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Writer/poet/artist Stephanie Goehring: http://stephaniegoehring.weebly.com

Mark Strand - From a Litany

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 02:16:21 +0000

"I praise the failure of those with ambition, the authors of leaflets and notebooks of nothing." - Mark Strand.

"Me too, boo." - Me

p.s. does anyone read these?

LINKS:

Buy Mark Strand's Collected Poems here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/9780804170857/

If you're in San Antonio, come on out to my lecture and book signing Friday, October 20th. Details here: http://bluestarcontemporary.org/calendar-events/robyn-oneil-artist-talk-book-signing-20-years-drawing/

If you want to buy my book "Robyn O'Neil: 20 Years of Drawings", do that here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Etel Adnan - An Etel Adnan Reader

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:57:06 +0000

Today we go back to our self-hatred rating system to see where we're all at these days. I'm a 4.7 out of 10. I explain my love of my high school closet, but I don't go into details just so you can imagine me way more interesting than I actually am. And then, we let Etel Adnan take over.

“Morality is violence. An invisible violence at first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When a stream flows into a river, it’s love and it’s violence. When a cloud loses itself in the sky, it’s a marriage." -Etel Adnan

LINKS:

Buy "An Etel Adnan Reader" here: http://www.nightboat.org/title/look-sea-become-what-one-etel-adnan-reader

More about Etel Adnan here: http://www.eteladnan.com

More about Muse to the show Stephanie Goehring here: http://stephaniegoehring.weebly.com

My upcoming appearances here: https://www.archonprojects.com/news-and-events/

Buy my book here: https://www.amazon.com/20-Years-Drawings-Robyn-ONeil/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1507852351&sr=8-2&keywords=robyn+o%27neil

And more about my work here: https://www.robynoneil.com

Dulce María Loynaz - Selected Poems

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:18:28 +0000

Things I like: Tak Fujimoto, Janet Jackson, casseroles. Things I don't like: the feel of terra cotta, my acne, jelly inside donuts.

"There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender." - Dulce María Loynaz

LINKS:

Buy Absolute Solitude here: https://archipelagobooks.org/book/absolute-solitude/

Check out Stephanie Goehring's work here: http://stephaniegoehring.weebly.com

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

My book of 20 years of drawings: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

A Short Talk w/ My Dad & Anne Carson - Short Talks

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:35:31 +0000

This is a one-off. I said I'll never have a guest on my podcast, but I changed my mind. My dad is my favorite person to have conversations with, and being with him and my mom the past two days made me so happy that I wanted to share a piece of it with you. I hope some of you like listening to us. And there's also ANNE CARSON!

I love you guys,
Robyn

LINKS:

Buy Anne Carson's Short Talks here: https://www.brickbooks.ca/books/short-talks-2/

Malvern Books in Austin, TX: http://malvernbooks.com

Poet/Writer/Friend Stephanie Goehring:
https://twitter.com/eselgoehring?lang=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Herschel Walker - Multiple Herschels from Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:13:33 +0000

"I created all these alters within myself. I created a whole team within myself." -Herschel Walker

LINKS

Come on out Saturday night Dallas! Info about my book release party at Talley Dunn Gallery here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1453848888032717/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%22108%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D

Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion here: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passion

Buy Looking for Poetry here: https://www.bookdepository.com/Looking-for-Poetry-Mark-Strand/9780375709883?ref=bd_recs_1_1

Buy my new book 20 Years of Drawings here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Jessie Redmon Fauset - Oblivion

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 22:29:54 +0000

“Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.” - Jessie Redmon Fauset

LINKS

Read more about Jessie Redmon Fauset in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-forgotten-work-of-jessie-redmon-fauset

Buy her novel “There Is Confusion” here: https://www.amazon.com/There-Confusion-Northeastern-Library-Literature/dp/1555530664

Check out my book tour dates here: https://www.archonprojects.com/news-and-events/

Buy my book here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

John Ashbery - They Knew What They Wanted

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:36:18 +0000

A nurse called me a pee pee girl. I love San Antonio. John Ashbery died today. He loved movies. I do too. So do you.

I’ve missed you.

LINKS

Buy John Ashbery’s Planisphere:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/planisphere-john-ashbery/1016147783/2675161923307?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP1948&k_clickid=3x1948

Buy my new book here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Mary Ruefle - Middle School

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:39:18 +0000

Send in your Kleenex CEO poems!
mereadingstuff@icloud.com

LINKS:

https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/trances-of-the-blast

Rainer Maria Rilke - The Poet Speaks of Praising

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:21:55 +0000

"It is a mistake to hope, but not a biggie." -Mary Ruefle

LINKS:

Follow me on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Follow me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Buy Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Rilke-on-Love-and-Other-Difficulties/

Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/vasko-popa-vasko-popa/1125579840/2683774181823?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+greatbookprices_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP24181

Info on my show here in LA, opening July 22nd: http://www.101exhibit.com/exhibitions/figurative-futures

RuPaul Wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKJp5xRVpJs

2nd Anniversary Special & Contest Announcement!

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:24:48 +0000

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream." -Wallace Stevens.

Good luck topping that line.

LINKS:

Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/251420/the-collected-poems-of-wallace-stevens-by-wallace-stevens/9781101911686/

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Email David your contest entries at mereadingstuff@icloud.com

Blaga Dimitrova - Ars Poetica

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:03:06 +0000

I'm back for today! Talking again about pubic hair and vasectomies. I also give a little shoutout to the size of my grandma's breasts, so there's a little something for everyone today.

LINKS:

Scars by Blaga Dimitrova: http://www.ivypressprinceton.com/book3.html

Big Cat Rescue: https://bigcatrescue.org

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/robyn_oneil?lang=en

Sam Shepard - Promising Two-Year Old & Mark Strand - Exhaustion at Sunset

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 18 May 2017 17:06:54 +0000

"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality." - Mark Strand

"I love communicatin' language with you." - Me, not on my A game.

LINKS:

Buy Mark Strand's Almost Invisible here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/almost-invisible-mark-strand/1102305106?ean=9780307957641&st=PLA&sid=NOK_DRS_NOOK+EBooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP75008

Learn more about Sam Shepard's Day Out of Days here: http://www.sam-shepard.com/dayoutofdays.html

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

I'm Back! May Sarton - The House by the Sea

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 12 May 2017 01:25:28 +0000

Hi guys! Today I'm feeling physically better today than I have since March, so I figured I need to say hello while I have a little energy. Not my best podcast, but I've missed this. And I've missed you. Times are rough, my body hates me, the world is in turmoil, but that's why we read and share and watch Amanda Bynes movies. In other words, we are not painting only fans at the moment. I love you guys. Hopefully this improvement will last. And I'm wishing you well as always. XO, Robyn

LINKS:

May Sarton's The House by the Sea: https://openroadmedia.com/ebook/The-House-by-the-Sea/9781497646353

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Back Issue Exclusive! Catullus, Anna Akhmatova, Joe Brainard

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:43:52 +0000

Hi guys! Thank you so much for all the nice reach arounds. Just kidding. Thanks for reaching out, wishing me well & sending me all the healing thoughts. Great news - I didn't get horrible news from my cardiologist! I'm still not the picture of health, but there's a game plan. So it'll be a long process for me, but I should start feeling a bit more like myself soon. I will be back next week, recording you a new episode. That's my biggest goal. I've missed you all very much, and thanks for putting up with me. I really appreciate the love and support.

LINKS:

Catullus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus

Anna Akhmatova: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/anna-akhmatova

The Akhmatova book I read from: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/poems-of-anna-andreevna-akhmatova-anna-akhmatova/1122976878?ean=9780393300147&pcta=n&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP17&k_clickid=3x17

Joe Brainard: http://www.joebrainard.org/BIO_MAIN.htm (he's hot)

Back Issue Exclusive! Mark Strand-Some Last Words

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:52:11 +0000

In case you guys read these, I thought I'd briefly let you know why I'm only posting old episodes again. I've had issues with my heart since I was a little kid, and they just keep getting worse. It's been an awful and scary month, but I am supposed to find out my cardiologist's game plan next Wednesday, April 26th. So send me some love/prayers/vibes/health/thoughts/anything. I need it. Thanks for your patience. Hopefully I'll be back soon. I miss you guys and I miss being able to talk things out.

LINKS:

Buy the book! http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/30082/mark-strand/

Mark Strand on KCRW: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/mark-strand-a-blizzard-of-one

Back Issue Exclusive! Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:59:50 +0000

LINKS:

Buy Autobiography of Red here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24642/autobiography-of-red-by-anne-carson/9780375701290/

And truly one of the most moving experiences of my life was listening/watching Anne Carson's performance "Lecture on the History of Skywriting" at The Hammer:
https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2016/10/anne-carson/

Back Issue Exclusive! Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:23:42 +0000

This book is "a compendium of found poems pieced together form the post-game interviews of professional athletes." say writers Jeff Parker and Pasha Malla. This is a collection of truly remarkable, gorgeous, funny, bizarre & poignant poems by people like Ron Artest, Kevin Garnett, George Best and Tiger Woods. I can not recommend this book enough. It is phenomenal. Preorder it on featherproof.com for only $14.95.

LINKS:

http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passion

Jared Stanley - EARS

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:45:25 +0000

I'm so so sorry everybody! I'm caffeine-free for medical reasons and don't feel like myself. It sounds like I'm accidentally unplugged from an outlet. But I'm gonna keep on keepin' on. Truckin'

LINKS:

JARED STANLEY: http://jared-stanley.info

Buy EARS here:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781937658625/ears.aspx
only 15.95

Julie Weitz: http://www.julieweitz.com hungryghostbaby insta

Jared Stanley Book Tour:

APRIL 3RD // NEW YORK NY
Bert's Brooklyn Poetry Shop

APRIL 4TH // PHILADELPHIA PA
Charmed Instruments
L'Etage
624 6th St.
Philadelphia

APRIL 6TH // BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON HUDSON, NY
Bard College
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
6pm

APRIL 7TH // BOSTON MA
2X2 READING SERIES

Cole Swensen - SHOULD SOMETHING HAPPEN TO THE HEART

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:11:24 +0000

"We are still not clear about the role of irregularity in the functioning of the human heart." - Cole Swensen

LINKS:

Buy Noon from Green Integer here: http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Cole-Swensen-Noon-&BookID=123

More about Cole Swensen here: http://www.coleswensen.com

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robyn_oneil?lang=en

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Wallace Stevens - The Plot Against the Giant

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:22:28 +0000

No more Q-tips and take the giant down.

"Not that I promote assault."

LINKS:

Listen to my guest appearance on KCRW & McSweeney's The Organist here: https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-organist/its-very-indian-to-watch-abfab

Buy Wallace Stevens "The Collected Poems" here: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Wallace-Stevens-Vintage-International-ebook/dp/B004JHYRAY

See the "Man Attacked by Lion" sculpture I was talking about here: https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/art-talk/at-lacma-picasso-vs-rivera

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Catullus - Odi et Amo & What For?

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:14:11 +0000

I hate and I love. You may ask me why. I don’t know, but I feel it and I suffer. –Catullus

I wash my hands and I do sad errands. You may do the same, but let me know if you develop a crush on the CEO of Papa Johns because I’m over here in love with Marcia Clark. –Robyn O’Neil

LINKS:

Buy World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time here: https://www.amazon.com/World-Poetry-Anthology-Verse-Antiquity/dp/0393041301

Check me out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Check me out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

David Markson - This Is Not A Novel

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:32:19 +0000

Today my pants were so tight I forgot to plug my mic into the computer. Audio troubles due to too much takeout. Human troubles due to too much of everything. But hey, as Markson reminds us, we're all gonna die anyway. Markson proposed a Death-of-the-Month-Club.

David Markson died in his own bed and his entire library went directly to the Strand Bookstore.

LINKS:

Buy Markson's This Is Not A Novel here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/this-is-not-a-novel_david-markson/372712/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAot_FBRCqt8jVsoDKoZABEiQAqFL76KDl92Ch806BjMI-gN_gWGjhIUd2Og5djTQ1xCI5jwkaAmHh8P8HAQ#isbn=1582431337

Listen to him on KCRW's Bookworm here: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/david-markson

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Eileen Myles - San Diego Poem

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:21:56 +0000

JOBS: Petsitting, babysitting, Chick-fil-A, Moskatels, Movies n' Videos, package wrapping, rapping, library archives, Delta, University Art Gallery, library periodicals & microfiche, Starbucks, pet portraiture, office manager (office supplies!)...and now this.

LINKS:

Buy "I Must Be Living Twice" by Eileen Myles here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062389084/i-must-be-living-twice

Learn more about Myles on her website. That's right here: http://www.eileenmyles.com

Listen to her on KCRW's Bookworm w/ Michael Silverblatt here: https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/eileen-myles-i-must-be-living-twice

Denise Levertov - Goodbye to Tolerance (An After Dark episode!)

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 02:51:39 +0000

"You have come to the shore. There are no instructions." - Denise Levertov

LINKS:

Buy The Collected Poems Of Denise Levertov: http://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-collected-poems/

More on Levertov on the New Directions website: http://www.ndbooks.com/author/denise-levertov/

Buy Best Maid Pickles here: http://www.bestmaidproducts.com

Check me out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Check me out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Check out my work at Susan Inglett Gallery (up until March 11th)

p.s. I LOVE PICKLES!!!!!

Patricia Highsmith - The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:48:39 +0000

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace.

-Patricia Highsmith, age 26, at 2:30 am New Year’s Eve 1947 in her journal.

LINKS:

Buy Highsmith's The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Animal-Lovers-Book-of-Beastly-Murder/

Buy "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler here: http://www.biblio.com/book/red-wind-chandler-raymond/d/883729357?aid=frg&utm_source=google&utm_medium=product&utm_campaign=feed-details&gclid=Cj0KEQiAuJXFBRDirIGnpZLE-N4BEiQAqV0KGiz9dB2stliY27Nb7XBN771s91AJzkmAZF30e9MnazgaAmry8P8HAQ

Listen to The Blaze w/ Lizzie & Kat here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blaze-lizzie-kat!-original/id949662737?mt=2

More about The Blaze here: http://90210blaze.tumblr.com

Beverly Hills, 90210 episode Windstruck: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0523000/

Paavo Haavikko - Fifteen Epigrams in Praise of the Tyrant

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:00:25 +0000

Keep yourself warm
When the pools are freezing,
Here, at the bottom of the sky,

When the sky is thin, and does not hold
And the soul
is set free. -Haavikko

LINKS:

Buy World Poetry, An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time here: https://www.amazon.com/World-Poetry-Anthology-Verse-Antiquity/dp/0393041301

John Wieners - Selected Journals

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:52:51 +0000

"I want...........poets reading to small audiences." - John Wieners

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” -Thomas Paine

LINKS:

My show at Susan Inglett Gallery tomorrow night! Info here: https://mailings.artlogic.net/readonline/99be6bd218024a08819063192317e531

Buy John Wieners “Stars Seen in Person, Selected Journals” here: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100921670&fa=description

Listen to more about Wieners on KCRW’s Bookworm (my favorite podcast) here: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/supplication-selected-poems-of-john-wieners

Scott Huler’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/huler?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Scott Huler’s "Defining the Wind” here: https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Wind-Beaufort-19th-Century-Admiral/dp/1400048850

My white noise machine: http://tinyurl.com/gmfr52w

Kenneth Koch - To You

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:01:22 +0000

LINKS:

Buy Kenneth Koch's Collected Poems here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/94568/the-collected-poems-of-kenneth-koch-by-kenneth-koch/9780375711190/

Buy one of my favorite books of all time, Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: https://www.abebooks.com/9780856464348/Vasko-Popa-Complete-Poems-1953-1987-0856464341/plp

Come see my solo exhibition in NYC next week here: https://mailings.artlogic.net/readonline/99be6bd218024a08819063192317e531

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Mary Ruefle - The Woman Who Couldn't Describe a Thing If She Could

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:49:55 +0000

"I say, let me be, please God, typical."-Donald Barthelme

“How you do anything is how you do everything.” - Richard Rohr

"I'm sorry." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle's My Private Property here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/my-private-property

Wave Books is on fire always: http://www.wavepoetry.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:48:18 +0000

"The coarse salt on the pretzels fills me with such glee I can't express it." -W. Herzog

"The ribbed indentations of the Ore-Ida crinkle cut french fries gives me life. Also, I have no problem with iceberg lettuce." - R. O'Neil

LINKS:

Buy Werner Herzog's Of Walking in Ice here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/of-walking-in-ice

Go to Rogue Film School here: http://roguefilmschool.com

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Iceberg Lettuce: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/t/53adc70ce4b074ad242a0e52/1403897614112/?format=750w

Mary Ruefle - My Private Property (Like a Scarf) (An After Dark Episode!)

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:31:52 +0000

“I like to read because it kills me.” -Mary Ruefle

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle’s new book “My Private Property” at Wave Books here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/my-private-property

NYC, come see me: http://www.inglettgallery.com/oneil-3-february-2017

LA, come see me: https://revisingloneliness.com/2017/01/09/i-present-two-at-echo-park-film-center/

Trailer for my film: https://vimeo.com/26486761

Echo Park Film Center: http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Back Issue Exclusive! Anne Boyer

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:41:46 +0000

(I'll be back next week, I promise) (and I'm sorry)

Can you head out into the world without issue? Can you think about your past and be all "ehhh, it was ok, no big deal." Can you attend a party and enjoy it? Can you just eat regular, healthy meals & head to the gym after work and not overthink the whole thing? Well good for you!

Please listen to another reading of Anne Boyer from her astounding book "Garments Against Women" which can be purchased through the link below. I can not explain how much I revere this book. If I could give it every single award there is, I would do exactly that.

I love you guys, Robyn

Buy the book here: https://ahsahtapress.org/product/boyer-garments/

Learn more about Anne Boyer here: http://www.anneboyer.com

And here: https://twitter.com/anne_boyer?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

And here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/08/literature-is-against-us-in-conversation-with-anne-boyer/

Back Issue Exclusive! Anna Kamieńska

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:21:16 +0000

You know the old proverb, "If you follow bikini models on instagram, your eyes and brain will dull into nothingness." Well, let's keep in mind the other one, "If you follow smart, interesting & talented people on instagram, your insides will glow & you'll become more intelligent with every scroll downward." I follow Water Liars on instagram, so my insides get to glow a lot.

And thanks for all the positive reviews and feedback on iTunes! Keep 'em coming, friends.

Reaching infinity,
Robyn

LINKS!

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Water Liars: http://www.waterliarsmusic.com

Water Liars Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waterliars/

Buy "Astonishments" here: http://www.paracletepress.com/astonishments-selected-poems-of-anna-kamienska.html

Back Issue Exclusive! Uncle Bill Borchardt from American Movie

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:43:55 +0000

God help you.
Jesus help you.
Everybody else help you.
Everybody. Everybody make happy.
Make everybody happy.
Be a comedian.

-Bill Borchardt

LINKS:

Buy "American Movie" here: http://www.secondspin.com/s/product/1012045?c3apiks=362_969172&cid=1334109&gclid=Cj0KEQjw09C5BRDy972s6q2y4egBEiQA5_guv8XgnJNJAAm7lQ0ecVlCU5GrwPsb6aX7fK3NlCMJ1CQaAq1W8P8HAQ#.VzS7PccleRs

Watch this scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDAUhfFO6mU

Follow Mark Borchardt on twitter: https://twitter.com/morethescarier?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Robert Yarber's Artist Statement

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:33:03 +0000

It goes like this. Nude Body. Bed. Public hairs detach and stick to blankets. They migrate north. They attach to pillow cases and jump onto human faces. End of story.

LINKS:

More on Robert Yarber: http://www.robertyarber.com

Buy 50 Texas Artists by Annette Carlozzi here: https://www.amazon.com/50-Texas-Artists-ANNETTE-CARLOZZI/dp/B00AQ5ENNE

David Drury's new project Folded Shorts here: https://www.instagram.com/foldedshorts/

David Drury on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DavDrury

Buy The Best American Non Required Reading 2003 here: https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Nonrequired-Reading-2003/dp/0618246967

Collected Poems Mark Strand here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/

Mirabai - His Hair & All I Was Doing Was Breathing

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:58:24 +0000

Today I admit some things and I ask some questions. I didn't talk about it, but I thought about steamed vegetables while recording this. Cabbage. And finally, never has a poet illustrated my way of crushing on people in high school more accurately. "If you come anywhere near my house, I will close my sandalwood doors, and lock you in." -Mirabai

LINKS:

Buy Robert Bly's The Winged Energy of Delight here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060575861/the-winged-energy-of-delight

More on Mirabai here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Luby's Shooting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby's_shooting

Donald Revell - Muse

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:23:44 +0000

No dogs in this race. Too many dogs in other races. Is it even "race?" Is it "fight?" Either way, too many dogs. Too many races. Way too many fights.

LINKS:

Buy The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8195-2210-8

More on Donald Revell here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/donald-revell

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

W.S. Merwin - Thanks

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:13:38 +0000

Today, I ask that you take off your tight jeans. Privately, away from me.

LINKS:

Buy “Migration” by W.S. Merwin here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BE438BB84-0D6E-4AB4-B564-0FDB6B4DB0C3%7D

Sign up for a Poem-a-day here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day

I’m on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

I’m on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

There are Denny’s in Omaha, Nebraska and I'd like to meet you there: https://katstrm3.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/20140612_092118.jpg?w=300&h=225

Sheila, is that you?: http://drinks.seriouseats.com/images/2013/04/20130417-bartender--%20McComber.jpeg

C.K. Williams - Apes

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:16:51 +0000

"It's occurred to me I've read enough, at my age all I'm doing is confirming my sadness." -C.K. Williams

My own personal heart right now: 4.67

LINKS:

Buy "Wait" by C.K. Williams here: http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374532765

Write ME READING STUFF an iTunes review here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/me-reading-stuff/id1010827465?mt=2

Take the Enneagram test(s) here: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Claudia Rankine - Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:06:54 +0000

"Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other." - Claudia Rankine

LINKS:

Rankine's VITAL books from Graywolf Press: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/dont-let-me-be-lonely

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen

Stephanie Goehring's website, including info on how to hire her for copy editing, editing, freelance work: http://www.stephaniegoehring.com

If you're in Austin, you can see/hear Stephanie read Saturday, November 12th! Check that out here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1800368103547421/

Stephanie on Twitter: https://twitter.com

Claudia Rankine on KCRW's Bookworm: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/claudia-rankine-citizen-an-american-lyric

Tao Lin - promise i'll vote for you

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:18:15 +0000

"I woke up at 12:30p.m. and sat on my bed. I emailed people and ate cereal and that took three hours because I took my time. When I finished I didn't know what to do so I emailed some more people." - tao lin

LINKS:

Buy "you are a little bit happier than i am" here: http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780976569237/you-are-a-little-bit-happier-than-i-am-.aspx

More on Tao Lin with Michael Silverblatt here: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/tao-lin-taipei

Info about my upcoming solo exhibition here: http://www.talleydunn.com

Tao Lin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tao_lin

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Jean Henri Fabre's BOOK OF INSECTS

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:11:35 +0000

"The making of a home is a serious problem."

I HEAR THAT, FABRE!

More gripping sentences from this crazy book:

"They are, I am convinced, completely ignorant of their own wonderful talents." "This is how things happen." "The mouth of the cells is, of course, always turned upwards. A pot cannot hold its contents if it be upside down."

Oh and one chapter is called "SELF-DENIAL OF THE SPANISH COPRIS." Another is called "TWO STRANGE GRASSHOPPERS."

AND and and (I can't stop getting excited to share this book with you), one of the illustrations is titled "Sometimes the Scarab seems to enter into partnership with a friend."

LINKS:

Fabre's Book of Insects: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486401529.html

Julia Holmes - Meeks: http://smallbeerpress.com/books/2010/07/20/meeks/

My upcoming show at Talley Dunn in Dallas: http://www.talleydunn.com/exhibition/view/robyn_oneil__castle_elementary/130

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:56:24 +0000

“REALITY IS A SOUND, YOU HAVE TO TUNE IN TO IT NOT JUST KEEP YELLING”

By the way, if someone makes me a GOD LOVES LOLA t-shirt, I'll give them 12 million dollars. By which I mean: "a postcard-sized drawing."

Now, go clean your desks, goofies!

LINKS:

Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/24642/autobiography-of-red/

More on Anne Carson here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/anne-carson

Sound Engineer/Artist/Writer/Musician/Framing Expert/Library Lover D.W. Burnam: https://twitter.com/dvvburnam

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Gabriela Mistral & Alfonsina Storni

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:53:40 +0000

Here's how I ordered at Subway the other day: "Ummmm, hi yeah, ummmm do you, do you guys still ummm have those ummmm veggie patties, ummm the things that are vegetarian options umm, yeah? You do? Ok, hi. Ummm yeah then I'd like to order uhhh that ummm on white bun, a white bun? Bread? Italian...umm whatever the white bun is called. What do you call it? White buns?.....ummmm yeah can I get the veggie patty heated up with cheese or no? Or is that not...wait, ummmm...."

And we hadn't even moseyed on over to the vegetable section yet.

LINKS:

Buy The Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Gabriela-Mistral-Burritt-Christiansen/dp/0826328199/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Buy The Selected Poems of Alfonsina Storni here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/alfonsina-storni-alfonsina-storni/1101062548/2674839320233

Subway: http://www.subway.com/en-us

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Rolf Jacobsen - Some People

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:23:39 +0000

Some people eat asparagus. Some people have never noticed you at all.

LINKS:

Buy The Winged Energy of Delight by Robert Bly here: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060575824/qid=1090879888/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/002-4912564-7445659?v=glance&s=books%0D

I'm on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

I'm on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Daniil Kharms - A Sonnet

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:01:27 +0000

(in the comments section on instagram) Tell me anything. Your dream car. Your fave sandwich (in detail). Your least favorite memory. Your favorite month. The person you miss the most. The song you wish you would never hear again. Tell me about the time you got rid of a behavior that wasn't serving you anymore. Or just tell me to shut the hell up!

LINKS:

Buy The Selected Writings of Kharms here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/today-i-wrote-nothing-daniil-kharms/1116779951?ean=9781590200421&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP24760&k_clickid=3x24760

MY SUPER SMART FUNNY TALENTED FRIEND WIGBOWL: https://twitter.com/wigbowl

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

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Ted Kooser - Praying Hands

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:02:09 +0000

"I am still interested in acknowledging that the people who read books have other priorities, and I want to consider those. I want to write books of poems interesting enough that they can compete with the need to get a raincoat cleaned." - Ted Kooser

"I detest elitism of any kind." - Ted Kooser

SO MANY LINKS TODAY:

Buy Kooser's Delights & Shadows here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B5DB744E9-E4AB-4314-A21F-C4C84A317273%7D

Read "They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office" here: http://nofixedpie.blogspot.com/2010/02/poem-they-had-torn-off-my-face-at.html

The Poets Laureate Anthology is right here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-06181-9/

Kooser's American Life in Poetry: http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org

Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man

Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas: http://www.talleydunn.com

Susan Inglett Gallery in NYC: http://www.inglettgallery.com

Me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

An excerpt from Shijing & Gwendolyn Brooks - "We Real Cool" (An After Dark episode!)

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 02:47:55 +0000

"D Han are thanked, And as benefactors ranked...___Ke_and_e___ in marshy ground." -words from a mystery email I received this week. Even though the person called me "Melissa Minshew"

Listen to find out what this is all about. And goodnight! Brush your little baby teeth.

LINKS:

A republication of "Oriental Literature: The Literature of China" edited by E. Wilson from Palala Press: https://www.amazon.com/Oriental-Literature-India-Wilson/dp/1358402299

Gwendolyn Brooks "Selected Poems": https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060882969/selected-poems

Please check out D.W. Burnam's twitter here: https://twitter.com/dvvburnam

And as always, feel free to follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

and instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Alida Young - Megan the Klutz

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:00:31 +0000

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." - Anton Chekhov

"We shall eat pizza. We shall choke on it. We shall spit the red sauce on a cute boy's white, white shorts." - Me, in response to the contents of Megan the Klutz

LINKS:

Buy Alida Young's Megan the Klutz for a penny here: https://www.amazon.com/Megan-Klutz-Alida-Young/dp/0874066964

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Mark Strand - Two Horses

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:34:56 +0000

I leave tomorrow for a Ted Bundy Bookclub, which takes place on a lazy river in Mexico. Find out more about that on this episode of Me Reading Stuff.

"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality." -Mark Strand

Hell yes to that, Mr. Strand.

LINKS:

Mark Strand's Collected Poems: http://knopfdoubleday.com/author/30082/mark-strand/

I'm on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

I'm on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_Beside_Me

More on Lt. Joe Kenda and Homicide Hunter on Investigation Discovery: http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/homicide-hunter-joe-kenda/

Novica Tadić - NIGHT MAIL (An After Dark Podcast!)

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:58:12 +0000

Whoa, it's late. I'm tired. I'm greasy. I'm slow. I'm already hungry for breakfast. I'm bragging about how I'm never late to anything. But I'm also gifting you with warrior Novica Tadić's THEY COME FOR ME & MY FIRST RECORD. Get ready. Wear protective gear. Sit down. Drink water; drive on.

LINKS:

Buy NIGHT MAIL here: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Mail-Selected-Novica-Tadic/dp/0932440592

Check out wonderful, thoughtful Stephanie Goehring's work here: http://www.stephaniegoehring.com

Seamus Heaney - The Birthplace

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:38:21 +0000

WALK ON AIR AGAINST YOUR BETTER JUDGEMENT

LINKS:

Buy Seamus Heaney's Opened Ground here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/opened-ground-selected-poems-1966-1996_seamus-heaney/261559/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwo5--BRCS8ceLjv-XppUBEiQAGp15ELizYkaXkyPIY2qkzE1xHV9_IDw7mTaMwHUnsRvRBxwaAhLs8P8HAQ#isbn=0374526788&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas (my opening is November 12th): http://www.talleydunn.com

César Vallejo - XXVIII (from Trilce)

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:50:30 +0000

What do Thumbelina, Adam Ant and Alasdair Gillis have in common? Listen to find out! And then share with me your three!

Today we read more César Vallejo. This time without croissant on my face.

The table is prepared for you.
I'll always be there for you.
It's a loop. (FRANK)

LINKS:

Buy César Vallejo's The Complete Poetry (Bilingual) here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-complete-poetry-a-bilingual-edition-p-37002.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwrvq9BRD5gLyrufTqg0YSJACcuF81msJa9MsobE7e9irQg9UL8ydGEGOPPzhb6i_J5jl34RoCcYPw_wcB

Please head over to spanishpoems.blogspot.com for all sorts of brilliant translations! http://spanishpoems.blogspot.com/2004/04/csar-vallejo-trilce-xxviii.html

And there's always The Winged Energy of Delight, Selected Translations by Robert Bly: https://www.amazon.com/Winged-Energy-Delight-Selected-Translations/dp/0060575867

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Kanye West - The McDonald's Man, Calabasas, California (An After Dark Podcast!)

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 06:19:25 +0000

In tonight's bonus episode, I read a new poem by Kanye West and talk about my history with people pleasing. Which I have conquered like a goddamned warrior. I also mention my attraction to both being cold and to Mickey Rourke.

With love, Robyn

LINKS:

Frank Ocean's "Blonde" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blonde/id1146195596

@caioberns on twitter: https://twitter.com/caioberns

My StorYe on Watching the Throne (MY FAVE PODCAST!): http://www.watchingthethrone.com/robyn-oneil.html

More about the restaurant Kanye wrote about here: https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us.html

Virginia Woolf - The Waves

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:01:59 +0000

“I am a boy in a grey flannel suit. She has found me. I am struck on the nape of the neck. She has kissed me. All is shattered.” – V. Woolf, The Waves

“I am a woman in a Target skirt and Old Navy tank top. Someone has emailed me. I have dry skin on my eyelids. My pharmacy just left me a message. All is on my calendar.” – R. O’Neil, Boketto

LINKS:

Buy "The Waves" here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-waves_virginia-woolf/251790/?gclid=CjwKEAjwudW9BRDcrd30kovf8GkSJAB3hTxFJhp2bOYz8Qj88EosDYfUIvKDKwQEdIfsYiB1xOyj9xoCkLPw_wcB#isbn=0156949601&pcrid=70112865312&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

More on "The Waves" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waves

Organize your closet with the help of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Organizing-Inside-Out-Second-Foolproof/dp/0805075895/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TTAH51B9Z5PYES6K4D5X

Follow me on those sites here: @robyn_oneil

Joe Brainard - I Remember

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:21:47 +0000

"With history piling up so fast, almost every day is the anniversary of something awful." - Brainard

LINKS:

Buy "I Remember" here: http://granarybooks.com/book/13/Joe_Brainard+I_Remember/

The film about Joe Brainard available here: http://www.joebrainardfilm.com

Follow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

More on Fireflies (Lightning Bugs) here: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/firefly/

My apologies.

Alejandra Pizarnik - PRIMITIVE EYES

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:08:30 +0000

"My name, my pronoun - a grey void." - Pizarnik

OH and the word is MASCOT. Realized that while publishing this damn thing. My apologies. There is static and atmosphere roaming through my brain right now. Which feels really good actually. It's the result of serious productivity. Love to all. Robyn, the President.

LINKS:

Buy Pizarnik's A Musical Hell HERE: http://www.indiebound.org/book/978081122096

More on Pizarnik on the fantastic New Directions website: 5http://www.ndbooks.com/book/a-musical-hell/

Check out Stephanie Goehring here: http://www.stephaniegoehring.com

And watch here read at Malvern Books here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDDNjGumW4A&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

Grapevine High School Mustangs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine_High_School

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

and Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

After Dark! Oliverio Girondo - At the gravitating turning

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:06:07 +0000

After 6 days of not leaving the house, I'm coming at you loud and strong and without Vitamin D. Cuddle with your stuffed animals while listening to this one!

LINKS:

Buy "In the Moremarrow / En la masmedula" by Oliverio Girondo, Translated by Molly Weigel here at Action Books: http://actionbooks.org/oliverio-girondo-moremarrow/

Check out information about The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner PhD here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dance-of-anger-harriet-lerner/1100553621

Follow me on Twitter and Instagram @robyn_oneil

Vasko Popa - Respect for the Axle

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:00:31 +0000

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” -Patricia Highsmith

SAME times a million.

Today, as rusty water drips on my head, I present to you two separate readings about how the earliest occupants of the Americas discovered the wheel, but only as a children's toy. Kids first I guess. Stay strong my friends. I love you very much.

Oh, and I heard your cries via the Podomatic "We Want More" button or whatever that is, so I'll be giving you an After Dark episode this week. I'm looking forward to it! I have so much I want to read you guys. Thank you so much for listening and caring. Let us proclaim the mystery of faith.

LINKS:

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vasko-popa-complete-poems-vasko-popa/1107427332?ean=9780856464331&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP439&k_clickid=3x439

Buy John D'Agata's The Making of the American Essay here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/making-american-essay

Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:14:55 +0000

Today, we celebrate the end of relationships. We shall find peace. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds in Tommy's backyard. We will quote RuPaul's self-love benediction and we will get on with our day even if we can't button our pants.

LINKS:

Buy Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/293600/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-by-rebecca-solnit/9780143037248/

More on Rebecca Solnit here: http://rebeccasolnit.net

RuPaul on Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syy9KnJhE4g

More on my BFF E. Tyler Lindvall here: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200402/?read=tool_invacare_folding_shower_chair

Dominos: https://www.dominos.com/en/

Steve Edwards - Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:47:43 +0000

The white noise of my dishwasher (baller) guides us through the beginning of what is sure to be a sweet day. I encourage 30 minutes of being good to yourself and I won't take no for an answer. I (for no reason) tell you something about Kurt Russell you might or might not know. And I ask who you loved in 2006. Also what's great about being alive? Tell me everything. I'm here.

LINKS:

Read Steve's full piece on Fatherhood for LitHub here: http://lithub.com/fatherhood-ruining-the-writing-career-saving-the-writing/

Read an excerpt from Steve's book "Breaking into the Backcountry" here: http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Breaking-into-the-Backcountry,674653.aspx

Follow Steve on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/The_Big_Quiet

Watch an Electric Literature animation based on one line from a Steve Edwards piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9x1yu8F6U

After Dark! John D'Agata - The Making of the American Essay

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 05:12:55 +0000

“The Flood doesn’t come as a punishment, or a warning, or even as a lesson, but instead it seems to come because floods will sometimes come - leaving us with nothing but the opportunity to rebuild.” - John D’Agata, The Making of the American Essay

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” - Frederick Douglass

LINKS:

More on D’Agata and his Graywolf Press books: https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/john-dagata

D’Agata on KCRW’s Bookworm: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/john-dagata-the-making-of-the-american-essay

Antony & The Johnsons-“Another World”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp23w0v-GB8

Kay Ryan - Things Shouldn't Be So Hard & Force

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:36:48 +0000

My laptop battery is down to 11% so I gotta get this thing published. I also need food. I also would love to hear you guys tell me about an artist/writer/filmmaker you hated until you loved. I'm looking outside as I type this, and the world looks hazy and dreamy and exactly like I prefer it. So out I go to walk in it. With my Yeezus praying skeleton shirt on and Kay Ryan's deep tracks in my head. I'm ready for anything.

LINKS:

Buy Kay Ryan books here: http://www.discoverbooks.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=0802142222&gclid=CjwKEAjw-_e7BRDs97mdpJzXwh0SJABSdUH0-Gtg3bcVQ0V9EEvLjeWYASBoKmXY0Ipgrx4u06phzhoC-GPw_wcB

and here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-06181-9/

Listen to Watching the Throne here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/watching-throne-lyrical-analysis/id1023488671?mt=2

My favorite Kanye West song "New Slaves" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyOL-f_UO5k

Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 18:56:02 +0000

The 4th of July seemed like a time to celebrate American sports, so I give you the weird words of Metta World Peace and some devastating ones from Doc Rivers. Thanks again to Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker for this book. It never fails to amuse/excite/move me. I gotta get back to the elbow macaroni and murder. Shoutout to all the pasta though.

LINKS:

Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion here: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passion

An excerpt from the book here: http://www.featherproof.com/excerpt-erratic-fire

Buy Longing for the Bomb here: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/12408.html

More about Lindsey A. Freeman here: http://www.lindseyfreeman.net

And follow Lindsey on twitter @sociologybomb

Tomas Tranströmer - The Scattered Congregation & The Recent Tweets of Oprah Winfrey

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:28:38 +0000

"Promise me you're not here to sew discord in the fields of my peace." - Oprah on Twitter last night.

LINKS:

Buy Robert Bly's "The Winged Energy of Delight" here: http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/the-winged-energy-of-delight/robert-bly/9780060575861?gclid=Cj0KEQjwhtO7BRCtwuO9gfTH-fQBEiQAdJ8FY4MhSNa7nS00K6jLvFiFr_E2L8Q8P4L50njO8u4NmgEaAsbj8P8HAQ

More about Tomas Tranströmer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Tranströmer

Buy Tranströmer's "The Great Enigma" here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-great-enigma-new-collected-poems-p-212123.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjwhtO7BRCtwuO9gfTH-fQBEiQAdJ8FY0rbW1qrGIYoQR_z9050EFbDap09M0x_9u755EcCn4YaAnPO8P8HAQ

See the tweets of Oprah Winfrey here: https://twitter.com/Oprah?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

More on #greenleaf here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenleaf_(TV_series)

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:36:06 +0000

Shower first, coffee later! Don't make that into a shirt. Worst phrase ever: "Happy wife; happy life." I hate that show "Everybody Loves Raymond" because it's the tv show version of that phrase.

Anyway, today we read the intro to Lolita. Which makes me very uncomfortable even though these might be my favorite 4 paragraphs in the history of literature. Listen to find out more. It's all a big tangle of thorns really.

LINKS:

Buy Lolita here: https://www.loa.org/books/9-novels-1955-1962

Buy the 8-week Mindfulness book here: https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Eight-Week-Finding-Peace-Frantic/dp/1609618955?ie=UTF8&adid=18JH0YN34F9SRSAMCXCY&camp=14573&creative=327641&creativeASIN=1609618955&linkCode=as1&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Frcm.amazon.com%2Fe%2Fcm%3Ft%3Dminfinpeainaf-20%26o%3D1%26p%3D8%26l%3Das1%26asins%3D1609618955%26ref%3Dtf_til%26fc1%3D000000%26IS2%3D1%26lt1%3D_blank%26m%3Damazon%26lc1%3D0000FF%26bc1%3D000000%26bg1%3DFFFFFF%26f%3Difr&ref_=as_li_tf_til&tag=minfinpeainaf-20

Free Mindful Meditations from the authors here: http://franticworld.com/free-meditations-from-mindfulness/

To Catch a Predator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Catch_a_Predator

Heidi Montag - Superficial

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:41:04 +0000

On ME READING STUFF, I've read you Whitman, e.e. cummings, Rilke, Gertrude Stein and so many more. And yeah.....now I'm reading you Heidi Montag. Haters gonna hate.

"Hoppin' out the Maserati, all I see is paparazzi snapping pictures for the front cover of a magazine. So I pose in everything I wear, love to make the people stare. Always center of attention lookin' so bootylicious."

LINKS:

Download Heidi's album Superficial here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/superficial/id348940801

Watch the official video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDN6Z60iccQ

Charlie talking to Spencer about crystals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVmuJTNnqc

My favorite crystal shop here in LA: http://spellboundsky.com

The One Year Anniversary of ME READING STUFF!

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:31:36 +0000

156 episodes and counting! Twice a week (sometimes more) for exactly a year now, I have shared my loves and hates with you. I've shared the poems, letters and various other literary excerpts that make my brain and heart weak with awe. And you've been very kind to me every step of the way. I love you all for caring. And I can not thank you enough for your support. But all of this truly goes out to the poets of the world. Without you all, humanity is a disgrace.

LINKS:

Buy The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-collected-poems-of-wallace-stevens-p-592194.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwqJ67BRCzzJ7Hy-LYlFYSJABwp9PGDblZOF3hKBxsCvtwFN53nFhZFEbZdTacW2o0zA14XRoCKLHw_wcB

Me: http://robynoneil.com

https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Lucille Clifton - blessing the boats

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:07:49 +0000

Someone called me loud the other day. I'm trying to be quieter. I promise I'll get back to that Heidi Montag song. And John D'Agata. But for now, I give you Lucille Clifton. xo, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy "Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000" through BOA Editions: https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/lucille-clifton

More on Lucille here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton

Donate to The Trevor Project here: http://www.thetrevorproject.org

Don't Be Cruel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd7dCbEfTs4

My Prerogative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k

Too Close for Comfort Rainbow Wall: https://cinemastarlets.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/41.jpg

Stephen Crane - God Lay Dead in Heaven

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:10:45 +0000

"But of all sadness this was sad..."

LINKS:

Even a few dollars helps: https://www.gofundme.com/pulsevictimsfund

Brady Campaign: http://www.bradycampaign.org

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: http://csgv.org

Buy the book that contains this Stephen Crane poem here: http://www.discoverbooks.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1598530933&gclid=Cj0KEQjws_m6BRCv37WbtNmJs-IBEiQAWKKt0HUXOz67UhnCiyHrzMMQXapB6qofVx97SHy7CIfIvEkaAqE_8P8HAQ

Emily Dickinson - To Recipient Unknown

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:00:35 +0000

In my first time ever reading you Emily Dickinson, I birth the new idiot term “pencil letter.” I praise so much today, even as the emotional fog makes happiness nearly impossible. I praise John D’Agata number one, I praise Emily, I praise Bookworm on KCRW, I praise Graywolf Press, I praise New Directions, I praise charged collisions, I praise all of you who join me every week, I praise swollen moons, and I praise even my worries. They are what they are.

Buy John D’Agata’s The Making of the American Essay here:
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/making-american-essay

More on John D’Agata here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/john-dagata

And John D'Agata on KCRW's Bookworm here (A MUST LISTEN!): http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/john-dagata-the-making-of-the-american-essay

William Carlos Williams - The crowd at the ball game

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:16:32 +0000

"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." - William Carlos Williams

LINKS:

Buy this book HERE: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/collected-poems-of-william-carlos-williams-1909-1939-william-carlos-williams/1100873871/2694169999268?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+greatbookprices_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP24010&k_clickid=3x24010

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45498

Learn more about Paul Pfeiffer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pfeiffer_(artist)

Paul Pfeiffer - Fragment of a Crucifixion (after Francis Bacon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu12tN8AJdU

Oliver Sacks from Daily Rituals

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:26:05 +0000

I wonder what Oliver Sacks would have said being called "pizza face with extra pepperoni" caused me, neu′ro·log′i·cal·ly speaking.

LINKS:

Buy Daily Rituals here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/198763/daily-rituals/

Check Oliver Sacks: https://2e0a24317f4a9294563f-26c3b154822345d9dde0204930c49e9c.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/4856736_oliver-sacks-on-storytelling-the-curious_tbe2a2462.jpg

Daphne Gottlieb - Why Things Burn

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 30 May 2016 13:50:28 +0000

Liquids in heels.

LINKS:

Daphne Gottlieb: http://www.daphnegottlieb.com

Buy Why Things Burn here: http://www.powells.com/book/why-things-burn-9781887128650

Essay about editing the letters of Aileen Wuornos: http://www.thebigclickmag.com/xxxxxxx/

Juan Ramón Jiménez - Who Knows What Is Going On

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 26 May 2016 17:31:19 +0000

"I was thinking of the greatness of what was human, and found myself in the divine." -Jiménez

Things loved: clear nostrils, libraries and blankets. Things hated: sticky stuff on tables and terracotta. Things loved: you and this plant.

LINKS:

Buy the Robert Bly translations book here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-winged-energy-of-delight-selected-translations_henry-david-thoreau/548450/?gclid=CjwKEAjw1Iq6BRDY_tK-9OjdmBESJABlzoY77BrVfmRpsXZHvlmgBHpOL5gijgsc1mxc6w3cZBTULBoCD8fw_wcB#isbn=0060575824&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc

More on Jiménez here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/juan-ramon-jimaenez

The Beverly Hills Public Library: https://julieamarxhausen.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/happy-old-people.jpg

Ghalib - My Head and My Knees

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 23 May 2016 18:11:28 +0000

Today, before reading you Ghalib, I went to the DMV and encountered a 91-year-old woman and a young woman who does not envy living a long life. I was quiet. My apps have been deleted from my phone for almost a month. I am wearing a new shirt. I have two new shirts. I will have them for a long time. Unless I die earlier than expected, which is totally possible and also not horrible. I do tend to get places early.

LINKS:

By Robert Bly's The Winged Energy of Delight here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-winged-energy-of-delight-selected-translations_henry-david-thoreau/548450/?gclid=CjwKEAjw1Iq6BRDY_tK-9OjdmBESJABlzoY77BrVfmRpsXZHvlmgBHpOL5gijgsc1mxc6w3cZBTULBoCD8fw_wcB#isbn=0060575824&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

More on Ghalib here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghalib

AFTER DARK! César Vallejo - The Anger That Breaks a Man Down into Boys

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:16:36 +0000

"There are blows in life so violent....Don't ask me!" - César_Vallejo

Thanks for listening to me talk about croissant flakes adhering to my dewy face.

LINKS:

Buy Robert Bly's "The Winged Energy of Delight" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/search-results/?search-term=robert+bly+

More on César Vallejo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Vallejo

Mark Strand - From a Litany

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:43:10 +0000

We all need a litany of praise every now and then, right? I dare you to write your own. Include the murky stuff.

Buy "COLLECTED POEMS" by Mark Strand at your local bookstore or here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/collected-poems-mark-strand/1118031927

If you're wanting to praise further, I also recommend these two books from Shambhala:

http://www.shambhala.com/shambhala-5647.html

http://www.shambhala.com/books/buddhism/chogyam-trungpa/the-pocket-chogyam-trungpa.html

Wisława Szymborska - Identification

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 16 May 2016 15:42:14 +0000

Pinterest and I are in a fight. I can't deal with people dying, so don't do that. I love you guys. And thank you.

XO, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy "Here" here: http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Here/9780547504643?atrkid=V3ADW6700B927_17288355412_pla-97894453372__70201759372_g_c_pla__1o1&gclid=Cj0KEQjw3-W5BRCymr_7r7SFt8cBEiQAsLtM8hmFkmSFa2FZqlTRWJ8IBcdPWXYKC-dd8ZgNgg52hAcaApvj8P8HAQ

Too Close for Comfort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Close_for_Comfort

More on Artist/Writer/Musician D.W. Burnam here:

https://twitter.com/dvvburnam

http://landramp.bandcamp.com

Uncle Bill Borchardt - Be a Comedian

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 12 May 2016 17:24:05 +0000

Rebecca Lindenberg - Letter to a Friend, Unsent

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 09 May 2016 17:57:53 +0000

Listen to this episode for sure. Because you have to find out what appeared underneath my laptop as I read this one to you. And now, I'm checking my face for stray hairs as I continue to listen to birds. You'll hear them. Be nice.

LINKS:

Buy "The Logan Notebooks" here: http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/books/the-logan-notebooks/

Buy "Love, an Index" here: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/love-an-index

(great covers on both of her books btw, & I do not say that about many book covers)

Read that McSweeney's Q&A here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mcsweeneys-books-qa-with-rebecca-lindenberg-author-of-love-an-index

Marianne Moore - Observations

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 05 May 2016 12:17:23 +0000

Today, from a mystery location, I read three Moore poems: To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity, Poetry, and Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape. And I dichotomously want to do nothing but talk and be very very very quiet. I’m gentle though. I’m dying; I’m writing it down. Calm.

LINKS:

Buy “Observations” here: http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/Poetry/6802/subcat.html?featuredproduct=10153022&featuredoption=15412892&cid=202290&kid=9553000357392&track=pspla&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=17282524-000-000&gclid=CjwKEAjwu6a5BRC53sW0w9677RcSJABoFn4szh1rhKSr0en13pC9Y1e9mHQCDb8cyhaL73laI2GkIBoCmaXw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

More on Marianne Moore here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Moore

Popul Vuh - The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:27:51 +0000

If I had a kid, I'd name him "Not Right Now." To find out why, listen to this episode, you goofies! Me, today: I have unexplained energy. I have a Lightning Mother. I have wireless headphones. And I have you.

LINKS:

Buy World Poetry, An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time here: http://www.strandbooks.com/anthologies-1/world-poetry-an-anthology-of-verse-from-antiquity-to-our-time

My hero, Dennis Tedlock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Tedlock

Buy Tedlock's translation of Popul Vuh - The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=KoI24A65-m4C&source=productsearch&utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=PLA&pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1&gl=US&gclid=COGt4LXyu8wCFUaWfgod9dkKjQ&gclsrc=ds

Popol Vuh, the band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdeIN3sYcfk

Florian Fricke on The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhshIKuAls

C.K. Williams - Writers Writing Dying

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 01:36:00 +0000

Just keep running faster.

Buy C.K. Williams "Writers Writing Dying" here: https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/writers-writing-dying-poems/9780374534127-item.html

Andrew James Weatherhead - THINGS THE PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTOR SAID AND DID

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:05:46 +0000

Today on the show, I accidentally referred to myself as "we", I admitted to crying while listening to the theme song of "The O.C.", I forgot to talk about not having a phone (which is fantastic), I explain how much I love Andrew James Weatherhead about a million times, and I screamed about triangles. -Tornado O'Neil

LINKS:

Andrew's Twitter: https://twitter.com/weeatherhead

Buy Andrew's book "CATS AND DOGS" here: http://thescrambler.com/books-catsanddogs.html

Read about Andrew in this Blake Butler article from VICE: http://www.vice.com/read/you-dont-have-to-share-every-single-thing-that-comes-into-your-mind-182

"THINGS THE PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTOR SAID AND DID" by Andrew James Weatherhead here: http://muumuuhouse.com/aw.14mar2016.html

More on Steve Albini here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini

Emily Dickinson & Philip Larkin

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:19:35 +0000

Today, after days of being quiet, I read Dickinson's "Me from Myself - to Banish" & Larkin's "Best Society". Larkin's poem made me turn suddenly loud again. I will now return to quiet. Thanks for understanding my ups and downs. You guys are the bee's knees.

I love you, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy the book "Solitude" here: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics//catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400044238

Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:50:33 +0000

Buy "Tender Buttons", really anywhere, but here you go: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/three-lives-and-tender-buttons-gertrude-stein/1100625525/2673239843267?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+Professional_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP3586&k_clickid=3x3586

AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Juliana Spahr - Thrashing Seems Crazy

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 06:16:51 +0000

I have used my slow-cooker twice this week. I have stayed home most days and all nights. I finished my taxes and things worked out. I had troubles and I had nice times. Be both man and woman. Stalk yourself. Night night!

LINKS:

Buy Juliana Spahr's "Response" here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/response-juliana-spahr/1002182270?ean=9781557132895

More on "Thrashing Seems Crazy" HERE (see NOTE on the bottom of this page!!!!): http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/251162

Spahr & Clover's piece "#Misanthropocene 24 Theses": http://communeeditions.com/misanthropocene/

More on Stephanie Goehring on her site: http://www.stephaniegoehring.com

Listen to Stephanie read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToLpEs8XLVw

Follow D.W. Burnam here: https://twitter.com/dvvburnam

Listen to D.W. Burnam here: http://landramp.bandcamp.com

See Tommy Donovan's work here: http://trdonovan.tumblr.com

And follow Tommy on twitter: https://twitter.com/TommyRDonovan

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THIS AFTER DARK EPISODE POSSIBLE!

Theodor Storm & Heinrich Heine

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:36:05 +0000

Adults FULL BORE at the desk. Counting things, paying things. Doing things and not doing other things. Also occasionally plotting revenge. At a desk. On a computer.

LINKS:

World Poetry - An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203921.World_Poetry

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Vasko Popa - The Wolf Bastard & Give Me Back My Rags

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:26:58 +0000

You bark.
I watch Poison Ivy.
I gotta do my taxes.
I'd love Tom Skerritt's phone number though.
That'd cheer me up.

LINKS:

Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Poems from Anvil Press here: http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/pages/store/products/ec_view.asp?PID=281

More on Skit-Skat Skerritt here: http://www.adultswim.com/videos/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/a-tom-skerritt-jingle/

Pablo Neruda - Walking Around

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 18:31:20 +0000

I too am sick of being a man. I was always sick of being a woman. But I stroll along with my eyes and my ears, my rage and my hands. My hands, Sub-Zero since you asked.

LINKS:

About Pablo Neruda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda

Buy The Essential Neruda: http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Neruda-Selected-Bilingual-English/dp/0872864286/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434802711&sr=1-1&keywords=pablo+neruda&linkCode=sl1&tag=hellopoetry-20&linkId=23XWE25LTKJLG2DN

Miroslav Holub - Dreams

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:42:44 +0000

An unplanned thematic event on ME READING STUFF: poems about grass and about how things just go on and on and on. And it's ok.

LINKS:

Buy the Holub book "Poems Before & After" here: http://bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/poems-before-after-848

Buy Sandburg's "The Complete Poems" here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-complete-poems-of-carl-sandburg-carl-sandburg/1111826976/2672386761103?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP2988&k_clickid=3x2988

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

And on Instagram, where I will no longer post 4 photos in one day: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

Carl Sandburg - Wilderness

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:25:05 +0000

I had cause to throw my book today, so we know this is a good one. The baboon in me did it. And now the eagle in me is taking me away.

I love you, Robyn

LINKS:

Buy Carl Sandburg's "The Complete Poems": http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-complete-poems-of-carl-sandburg-carl-sandburg/1111826976#productInfoTabs

Matthew Sontheimer's beautiful work: http://www.talleydunn.com/artist/view/matthew_sontheimer/21

Charles Simic - The World Doesn't End

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:09:19 +0000

I recorded this one in a cold garage in an unnamed location. The garage is large. It has two children in it. It it not my garage, but it does contain my old coffee table. I'm going to miss this coffee table, but it's too big for my apartment. I like living in very small places. I always have; I always will. My grandparents' apartment was so small. One of the children just rang a bell.

LINKS

Charles Simic: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-simic

Buy “The World Doesn’t End”: http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/the-world-doesn-t-end/charles-simic/9780156983501?gclid=CjwKEAjwrOO3BRCX55-L9_WojHoSJAAPxcSP9XxkzilICcttAZ_PbumhU38AibWPJOC3_Wg76f_F_BoCNJvw_wcB

AWP: https://www.awpwriter.org

CAMP REAL PANTS: http://camp.realpants.com

Dark F*cking Wizard: http://darkfuckingwizard.com

The New School’s LIT magazine: http://www.litmagazine.org

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Ramblin' Robby on the Road Reading about Samuel Beckett & Richard Strauss from "Daily Rituals"

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:03:35 +0000

People make eggs. They swim. They drive. They suffer. They write. They draw. They compose. They admire sunsets. They clean themselves. They clean children. They love you. They resent. They love again.

LINKS:

More on Mason Currey: http://masoncurrey.com

Buy the book here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/198763/daily-rituals/

Check out my friend Anne Regan's work here: http://www.annejregan.com

My dream car: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NChlFsqFjh4/UVxNFHiG3MI/AAAAAAAEM00/5q-L3J0dcU8UTFxSJUuL0BxVVtN794o0QCHM/s1600/2001_2004_tacoma_xtracab_004.jpg

Kathryn Maris - The House with Only an Attic and a Basement

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:24:02 +0000

I drank his cinnamon tea. I was kidnapped in Dublin by a taxi driver and forced to drink ginger ale. These are the stories.

But we shall find peace.

With love, Robyn

LINKS:

More on Kathryn Maris: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kathryn-maris

Maris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathrynmaris?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Buy Kathryn Maris's "God Loves You" here: https://wordery.com/god-loves-you-kathryn-maris-9781781720356?currency=USD>rck=MjhWbmZ1QlAyYVpxakpjS1pHWXgrL3Y5ZUdMSVZ3ZWdhQVR0ZFU2RElOMU4ydXVwYkhadUtFRGtHTHhZUmJlNUFqaGFleFAwRHBFVVlycVZ5UTlzU0E9PQ&gclid=Cj0KEQjwt763BRDZx_Xg3-Pv2cABEiQAoDfeGAiJPk9Fbpike2SDt_rGUdo0tAywFWgQYFyT8FurK1IaAgK28P8HAQ

WE, THE MASSES trailer: https://vimeo.com/26486761

Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org

Gwendolyn Brooks - a song in the front yard

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:23:52 +0000

Live from a little girl's bedroom in Chicago:
Doesn't like to travel. Likes being with friends. Doesn't like some memories. Likes others.

LINKS:

Gwendolyn Brooks "Selected Poems": http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-Gwendolyn-Brooks/dp/0060882964

More on Brooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks

E. Tyler Lindvall:
http://etylerlindvall.blogspot.com
https://twitter.com/chopstarnation
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200402/?read=tool_invacare_folding_shower_chair

My show in Chicago: http://www.westernexhibitions.com/current/2016/2a_Oneil/index.html

Anne Carson - The Life of Towns

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:06:55 +0000

Reading from misdirected texts, this is no time for minimalism. I take you to Wolf Town & The Town of Uneven Love (But All Love is Uneven) (Remember, Carson McCullers already told us about that.) This is definitely the first time I've mentioned porcupines twice in one episode. I doubt that will ever happen again.

LINKS:

Buy Anne Carson's "Plainwater": http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24646/plainwater-by-anne-carson/9781101911273/

More on Anne Carson:
http://www.ndbooks.com/author/anne-carson/

All about Jon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_DeRosa &
http://jonderosa.com/#blog-section &
https://twitter.com/Aarktica

Karolina Waclawiak: http://www.karolinawaclawiak.com

Katherine Anne Porter, an interview from Writers at Work, The Paris Review 1963

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:11:43 +0000

Some definitions for today:

Hikes: Seems like you're going' up hills a lot and you're in dirt.

Walking: strolling down the street in your city, havin' a good time.

LINKS:

The Interview: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4569/the-art-of-fiction-no-29-katherine-anne-porter

Buy the Book: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/writers-at-work-the-paris-review-interviews-2nd-series/1657204/?gclid=CjwKEAiA04S3BRCYteOr6b-roSUSJABE1-6BMSQHetg94mg3_tva_gjS6p8r0uMpbjhTD-UvvdZj1xoCtQPw_wcB#isbn=0140045414&pcrid=70112865192&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

My twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Bonus Round! James Galvin - Blue or Green

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 01:29:34 +0000

Stay strong everybody.

LINKS:

Buy James Galvin's book "As Is" here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={33AECE7B-9CB3-4F49-9DAA-F88430441392}

Check out more from Stephanie Goehring right here: http://www.stephaniegoehring.com

and here: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring

and here! https://www.instagram.com/eselgoehring/

Wallace Stevens's The Man on the Dump: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172209

William Blake's The Ancient of Days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancient_of_Days

Wislawa Szymborska - Here

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:07:44 +0000

1. Calm down
2. Be nicer to myself
3. Shut up
4. Breathe like Julie

So much love, Robyn

LINKS!:

Wislawa Szymborska:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisława_Szymborska#cite_note-reuters_death-3

Buy Szymborska's "Here": http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Here/9780547504643?atrkid=V3ADW6700B927_17288355412_pla-97894453372__70201759372_g_c_pla__1o1&gclid=Cj0KEQiA6vS2BRDH8dq06YDHz_IBEiQAzNdBmes2GxHQjBnylgx-z_NoDgdCaCwJZio2nwCMqLzC0OoaAm8C8P8HAQ

D.W. Burnam:

https://twitter.com/dvvburnam

http://landramp.bandcamp.com

Edna St. Vincent Millay - Dirge Without Music

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 20:49:19 +0000

Energy levels are low; passion levels are high. I made sure no one listening was a racist, bigot, or a sexist. They are not welcome here. And did an iTunes reviewer call me a bad name? Listen to find out more!

I love you guys,
Robyn

LINKS:

Purchase "Good Poems", Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/good-poems/253821/?gclid=Cj0KEQiA3t-2BRCKivi-suDY24gBEiQAX1wiXOmA2ieTgRYeANl-DtKvdZYlEAtJv2KclX6bGC5_XrQaArX88P8HAQ#isbn=0142003441&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Yehuda Amichai - Poems for a Woman

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 09:49:12 +0000

"All night your empty shoes
screamed alongside your bed."

Tonight, I almost went to bed, but didn't.

With love,
Robyn

LINKS:

Buy the book "The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai" here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-selected-poetry-of-yehuda-amichai-p-255360.html?gclid=Cj0KEQiA3t-2BRCKivi-suDY24gBEiQAX1wiXMgkqHpoXkSWgK98NSBQET2tyAmqzDjQwcL_b1RSSPEaAvqc8P8HAQ

Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) - Ted's Studio Burnt Down & How To Do It

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:57:47 +0000

Me on the phone. I don't like it.
Me with blankets. I like it.
You being nice. I like it.
You with happiness. I like it.

LINKS:

World Poetry book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203921.World_Poetry

Werewolf at Charlie James Gallery: http://www.cjamesgallery.com/show-detail/werewolf

Nick Brown's work: http://nickbrownart.net

Sohrab Sepehri - Friend

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:38:51 +0000

tired
adjective
1 you're just tired from traveling: exhausted, worn out, weary, fatigued, dog-tired, dead beat, bone-tired, ready to drop, drained, zonked, wasted, enervated, jaded; informal done in, bushed, whipped, bagged, knocked out, wiped out, pooped, tuckered out. ANTONYMS energetic, wide awake, fresh.

LINKS:

More info on Sohrab Sepehri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Sepehri

Harvester Arts: https://www.facebook.com/harvesterartswichita/?fref=ts

Theodore Roethke - The Surly One & The Swan

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:01:02 +0000

Is there anybody up in here who ain't on birth control?

LINKS

What it's like to be in the studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBtfK-aCn3Q

This is not the exact book I read from, but this will get you through the week: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/156629/the-collected-poems-of-theodore-roethke/

More on vasectomies: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/vasectomy

Allen Ginsberg - Wichita Vortex Sutra

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:03:53 +0000

I'm in Wichita. See the connection there?

I guess I'm traveling around the Midwest recording myself too. This is the same Midwest that once surrounded my elementary school body as it traveled to Pizza Hut in my mom's van once a month so I could BOOK IT! Which is why I became such an obsessive reader, and ultimately why I do this podcast!

This one is for you, Bud Gates.

LINKS:

About the 50th anniversary of Wichita Vortex Sutra: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article60959522.html

Buy Planet News: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/0872860205/planet-news-19611967.aspx

Harvester's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/harvesterartswichita/?fref=ts

Mark Halliday - Self-Importance

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:45:49 +0000

Say no to sandpaper; say yes to locating your spouse's Foreman Grill.

Riding, riding,
Robyn

LINKS:

Mark Halliday's "Selfwolf": http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3624976.html

Matthew Sontheimer: http://www.talleydunn.com/artist/view/matthew_sontheimer/21

Harvester Arts: http://www.harvesterarts.com

George Foreman Grill: http://www.georgeforemancooking.com

Derrick Austin - Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:02:55 +0000

I just basically said the word "incredible" over and over for 10 minutes. And I cried. Twice.

ENJOY!

LINKS:

Preorder Derrick Austin's "Trouble the Water" for a mere $16!!!!!! here: https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/poetry/products/trouble-the-water

Derrick's website: http://themadscene.tumblr.com

Derrick's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParadiseLAust

The Frick: http://www.frick.org

AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Anonymous 12th century poetry & so much more.

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 06:28:42 +0000

Dear friends,

I set up my $40 mic next to an old cold cup of coffee. Not OLD old, just mildly old. I probably last took a sip out of it around 1pm. It is now 10:24pm. This is night in the shittiest part of Beverly Hills. Billy made me spaghetti and salad tonight. Billy is already asleep. I will now do other things with the evening.

I'm not happy with this After Dark for whatever reason. But I am deeply happy some of you care to hear this stuff. Thank you for that.

I do wish you all understanding.

With love,
Robyn

p.s. Thank you Mark.

LINKS:

World Poetry: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203921.World_Poetry

The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic: http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/The-World-Doesnt-End/9780547546889?atrkid=V3ADW6700B927_17288355412_pla-97894452652__70201759372_g_c_pla__1o1&gclid=CjwKEAiA3Ou1BRDso5XyhduuwFASJABP3PEDmlA9QYn5YCiDKEpY7q_ZMBOLf57QF_G4V1eHSSSRKBoCyuPw_wcB

My website: http://robynoneil.com

Hadewijch - LOVE HAS SEVEN NAMES

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:45:14 +0000

Take care, you who wish
to deal with names
for love. Behind their sweetness
and wrath, nothing endures.
Nothing but wounds and kisses.

Though love appears far off,
you will move into its depth.

LINKS:

World Poetry Book (highly recommended): http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203921.World_Poetry

Women's Spiritual Poetry (by SHAMBHALA hello!): http://www.shambhala.com/the-shambhala-anthology-of-women-s-spiritual-poetry.html

All Things Elliott Malkin: http://dziga.com

Jon Love & his amazing work: http://jonlovesart.com

Am I forgetting something?

Chögyam Trungpa - SHAMBHALA (sorry friends, this one went a little long)

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:41:16 +0000

"Nervousness is cranking up, vibrating, all the time."

Sad and tender,
Robyn

LINKS:

More on Chögyam Trungpa here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chögyam_Trungpa

Buy the book here: http://www.shambhala.com/shambhala-4911.html

Meditate in LA here: http://la.shambhala.org

Jack Spicer - Any fool can get into an ocean . . .

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:20:59 +0000

The thing is, everybody loves tortillas.

Don't drown,
Robyn

LINKS:

Today's poem was found here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181724

LISTEN TO BOOKWORM! Here's the John Wieners episode I mentioned today. You will love it. Trust: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/supplication-selected-poems-of-john-wieners

Buy Supplication here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/supplication

Catullus, Anna Akhmatova, Joe Brainard

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:22:56 +0000

Human Beings.
That's it.

LINKS:

Catullus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus

Anna Akhmatova: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/anna-akhmatova

The book I read from today: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/poems-of-anna-andreevna-akhmatova-anna-akhmatova/1122976878?ean=9780393300147&pcta=n&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP17&k_clickid=3x17

Joe Brainard: http://www.joebrainard.org/BIO_MAIN.htm
(he's hot)

Question of the Day Podast w/ James Altucher & Stephen J. Dubner: http://www.earwolf.com/show/question-of-the-day/

Charles Simic - The Magic Study of Happiness

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:06:40 +0000

Aggressive sculptures are built, I rant, I want a piano, I love Bruce Hornsby, I even had long fingers, I freaked out, I love the sound of a summer storm, I can't change my mind, what do those breadcrumbs see?, listen to the tears roll, watch her hug her dress tighter and tighter, listen to the banjo wind, come f*ck with me, I laughed and she'd smile, listen to the music on the lake.

Sad song drifting low,
Robyn

LINKS! Important ones.

But the book this Charles Simic piece came from here: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Great-American-Prose-Poems/David-Lehman/9780743243506

Learn more about Andrew James Weatherhead here: http://www.andrewweatherhead.org

Learn more about The Great Concavity, a podcast about David Foster Wallace & much more here: http://greatconcavity.podbean.com/category/art/

Listen to the Mandolin Rain here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDgOwX72fLI

Mark Strand - The President's Resignation

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:11:14 +0000

Do you love me? Does your neck smell like a campfire? Are you going to be obsessed with this Mark Strand short story? YES YES AND YES.

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves." - Marcel Proust

From my shade of blue to yours,
Robyn

BUY THIS BOOK HERE: http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062424891/mr-and-mrs-baby-deluxe-edition

Anna Kamieńska - Funny

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:09:36 +0000

Mary Karr - Suicide's Note: An Annual

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:59:18 +0000

Today:

Low energy.
Canadian praise.
Heavy air of grief.
Tenderness and sparks and homeless and arguments and it's all ok.

Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org

Tyler Bright Hilton: http://www.tylerbrighthilton.com

Jay Dart: http://www.thedart.ca

Rainer Maria Rilke - You Who Never Arrived

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:19:19 +0000

The title of this podcast is, "RESPECT THIS HUSTLE"

This is not an angry podcast. But it almost was! Isn't life fun? No? Yeah, I know. But...

"perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday"

Your friend in all kinds of matters,
Robyn

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/154369/the-selected-poetry-of-rainer-maria-rilke/

Cool photo of me taken Sunday night: https://shogofawafa.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/francisco_de_goya_saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_1819-1823.jpg

Rafael Alberti - To Miss X, Buried in the West Wind

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 19:00:28 +0000

And meanwhile, you, in the wind.

xo, Robyn

DEFINITELY buy this book. But I couldn't find it anywhere but Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Poetry-Drummond-Andrade-Alberti/dp/0375709886

My hero: http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce07b8c-be95/k2-_1359e45c-57a8-4d19-9743-1c16b358cc8a.v1.jpg

After Dark! (a bonus episode) Jorie Graham - Soul Says

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 07:45:49 +0000

For $75 a month, I rented a house that didn't laugh at me. And I'll be happy to make your decisions for you. Also, we ate so much spaghetti back then. I taught Trent what a colander was, and he showed me Hieronymus Bosch.

I'm exhausted, Robyn

This poem can be found in this anthology: http://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Poems-Everymans-Library-Pocket/dp/1400044235

And here's my friend Trent: http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/trenton-doyle-hancock/

Robert Hass - Our Lady of the Snows

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:44:39 +0000

I'm PISSED today. At Kleenex. It's over between us. I've moved on to Puffs already, but it was a dramatic & painful break-up. So, be patient with my fury in the first few minutes of today's episode.

And then, most importantly, listen to Robert Hass fly.

"And the days churned by,
navigable sorrow."

With love,
Robyn

Buy Sun Under Wood here: http://www.bestdealbuys.us/p/Sun-Under-Wood-51687968.html

And look at the amazing work of Matthew Sontheimer here: http://www.talleydunn.com/artist/view/matthew_sontheimer/21

And check out my twitter feed to see the hostility between Kleenex and yours truly: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Jean Valentine - The Knife

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:49:27 +0000

"My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace." -Patricia Highsmith, age 26, at 2:30am New Year’s Eve 1947 in her journal.

Buy the Jean Valentine book, "Door in the Mountain..." here: http://www.upne.com/0819567124.html

The Patricia Highsmith I recommend the most is here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Animal-Lovers-Book-of-Beastly-Murder/

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:14:39 +0000

An update from the garage. My apologies for the sibling/marriage joke. I would have edited it out, but I just didn't feel like editing it out. There's lunch to eat over here, and these drawings aren't gonna make themselves.

I wish I could see these geese Mary Oliver is talking about, but they're not flying around my apartment.

You do not have to be good,
Robyn

Listen to Mary Oliver read "Wild Geese" from her living room in Florida here: http://www.onbeing.org/blog/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/5966

Check out Electric Works here: https://www.sfelectricworks.com

Buy Dream Work by Mary Oliver here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/dream-work_mary-oliver/265887/?gclid=CjwKEAiA2IO0BRDXmLndksSB0WgSJADNKqqoc6AawXlIeZAYC9v8wO8UGMv1DH8XlXgHZT5zJ2Q2bBoCXTLw_wcB#isbn=0871130696&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

Saturday Night Recorded! Czeslaw Milosz "Song On The End Of The World"

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 04:08:45 +0000

Greetings from a rare Saturday night in the shittiest part of Beverly Hills. Today my athletic neighbor caught two people having sex behind my car in our parking garage and got really concerned about it. Then I made really disgusting orange chicken for dinner. And later my cat threw up. And my feet are abnormally cold. Anyway, something about this combo of events made me realize tonight was as good as any for a ME READING STUFF check-in. So here I am, reading to you about the end of the world as envisioned by Czeslaw Milosz.

Maybe a bee was circling those two people behind my car? One never knows, Robyn

Albert Goldbarth - Human Beauty

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:29:48 +0000

Here's to kicking pedophiles and/or bigots out of your house this Christmas.

And here's to storms,
Robyn

p.s. Buy the Goldbarth book The Kitchen Sink here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/kitchen-sink-0

Tomas Tranströmer - Answers to Letters

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:06:50 +0000

Garth Brooks thanked God for Unanswered Prayers, and today I salute, with heavy heart, Unanswered Letters. And dusk. And tater tots. And you.

From the 5th window,
Robyn

Buy Tranströmer's The Great Enigma here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-great-enigma-new-collected-poems-p-212123.html?gclid=CPbz79P67ckCFViTfgodDNAP2Q

William Stafford - The Way It Is

Robyn O'Neil — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 04:08:27 +0000

Just straight up bragging about having perfect attendance from Kindergarten-12th grade in this episode. I'm doing my best over here, you guys. I'm so sorry the past 2 weeks have been downright unimaginative. I hope with all hope I can deliver something more entertaining to you soon.

And to the executives at Kleenex, I'm ready for a meeting whenever you are. Call me!

Not a rule breaker,
Robyn

Buy the Stafford book here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-way-it-is_william-edgar-stafford/487951/?gclid=CIzS4_TD5MkCFUOVfgod7fYKxw#isbn=1555972845&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=

Learn more about my favorite company Kleenex here: https://www.kleenex.com

Kobayashi Issa - Death Poem (haiku)

Robyn O'Neil — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:11:15 +0000

From my sickbed comes a crucial PSA about the risks of being naked while receiving a FaceTime invite from your brother and his 4-year old son. Please enjoy. And do not visualize anything I say. Ever.

Paramahansa Yogananda - Scientific Healing Affirmations

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:22:16 +0000

Affirmation by Power of Thought

I think my life to flow,
I know my life to flow,
From brain to all my body to flow.
Streaks of light do shoot
Through my tissue root.
The flood of life in vertebrae
Doth rush through spine in froth and spray;
The little cells all are drinking;
Their tiny mouths all are shining;
The little cells all are drinking;
Their tiny mouths all are shining.

Thanks to Steve from the tunnel by the library.

Ted Kooser - They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:37:49 +0000

I managed to tear down an old folder off my bookshelf to see what would fall out. An old printout of this Ted Kooser poem was the 1st thing I found. So I read it to you, wished you well, and went about my business.

Also, no matter what:
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems?" -Ted Kooser

Anne Boyer - AT LEAST TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:59:15 +0000

Can you head out into the world without issue? Can you think about your past and be all "ehhh, it was ok, no big deal." Can you attend a party and enjoy it? Can you just eat regular, healthy meals & head to the gym after work and not overthink the whole thing? Well good for you!

Please listen to another reading of Anne Boyer from her astounding book "Garments Against Women" which can be purchased through the link below. I can not explain how much I revere this book. If I could give it every single award there is, I would do exactly that.

I love you guys,
Robyn

Buy the book here: https://ahsahtapress.org/product/boyer-garments/

Learn more about Anne Boyer here: http://www.anneboyer.com

Kenneth Fearing - Invitation

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:52:30 +0000

Today, while I watch a man in a Members Only jacket urinate on the wall behind my home, I read you a poem about how the wondrous clashing of emotion and time are exactly what make up a life. This isn't bad, this isn't good, it just is. And I guess in its is-ness, it's actually pretty damn splendid.

I also talk to you about an experience I had with two bodybuilding brothers while living in Chicago. Now that one is sad. Unequivocally.

We will go through endless streets,
Robyn

Dylan Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:27:37 +0000

Before I started dicing a bunch of Thanksgiving vegetables, I took my laptop outside to talk to you. But I'm naturally very loud and it's early, so I'm more like whispering to you. I sound pretty creepy. Sorry about that.

And less than a week ago, I stated clearly I would never have a guest on this podcast. Today, I broke that rule with a surprise guest. Listen to hear who I let in!

With love, Robyn

Leonard Cohen - How To Speak Poetry

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:44:57 +0000

Don't be a clown. Or do. It's all about the depending.

Listen as Leonard Cohen tells us what is embarrassing and not-right about those who read to us. Let me not fail him.

I look good when I'm tired (he said so),
Robyn

Mark Strand - Some Last Words

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:41:50 +0000

What did you last ask in a graveyard? What is the perfume you love? Have you, a poor man, entered a woman of means? And do we all agree that good things are most likely NOT on their way?

How much toilet paper do you keep in the house? Do you use HP60 ink cartridges? Is it ok that this is all about me? Did I warm your heart in San Antonio?

With love, Robyn and Mark

LINKS:

Strand on Bookworm: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/mark-strand-a-blizzard-of-one

But the book: http://knopfdoubleday.com/author/30082/mark-strand/

Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:46:11 +0000

"The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice." Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson is in my list of the Top 5 Books I'd Recommend to Absolutely Anyone. It's tragic, obsessive love. It's cruelty and confusion. It's brave and brilliant. And dear Geryon is the most lovable main character I've ever read. And the structure of this book - A NOVEL IN VERSE - perfection.

GOD LOVES LOLA,
Robyn

p.s. so sorry for the horrible German pronunciations!

Kenneth Fearing - Andy and Jerry and Joe

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:40:00 +0000

There are clouds overhead, there are people whose fathers are dead, there are crime novelists writing poetry and those people sometimes die of cancer. There is this. And there is that. And there is you and there is me.

Restless desires & unnerving fears,
Robyn

LINKS

Kenneth Fearing, selected poems: http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=210

Matthew Sontheimer's show: http://www.lacitycollege.edu/academic/departments/art/gallery.html

Julie Weitz: http://www.julieweitz.com/touchmuseum/

Luke Davies - Interferon Psalms

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:36:04 +0000

If you feel like a Monday is best handled underwater, this is the Monday podcast for you. Bigots Not Invited!

Today I read from the phenomenal book INTERFERON PSALMS by Luke Davies. A friend and someone I aspire to be more like every damn day, this book will tear your heart into pieces and leave you begging for more.

We lift up our hearts, Robyn

LINKS:
http://www.lukedavies.blogspot.com
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13120632-interferon-psalms
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/243066
http://greatconcavity.podbean.com

Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:13:19 +0000

I have never felt so desperate to share a book with you all. Anne Boyer's "Garments Against Women" is necessary. There's nothing like it. And if the world were right, those 800,000 people at that Kansas City Royals Parade the other day would have been there to celebrate Anne Boyer. That many people should be falling all over themselves & each other in order to honor their love of her books. That's the world I want to live in.

http://www.anneboyer.com
Buy Garments Against Women here: https://ahsahtapress.org/product/boyer-garments/

H.D. - The Wind Sleepers

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:16:42 +0000

I saw three women do something bold and pretty distasteful already this morning. Listen to hear what they did. And then I came home to read you H.D.'s The Wind Sleepers.

To Rocky Top, Robyn

Halloween Bonus Round! Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee

Robyn O'Neil — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:40:25 +0000

As a special Halloween Bonus, I read you guys the first poem I ever memorized. I was a 7th grade goth cheerleader. Forever in black, Robyn

Sylvia Plath - Daddy

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:05:57 +0000

Thanks to artist & ME READING STUFF listener, Marcy Thomas, I'm doing the unthinkable. I'm reading Sylvia Plath's "Daddy." I've always really disliked Plath, and I loathe The Bell Jar. Furthermore, I've never said the words "daddy" & "jew" so often in my entire 38 years of existing. Also mentioned: my brain thinks it bought a donkey figurine in China, but I haven't even been to China. I have however been to East Texas.

LINKS:
http://marcyjthomas.weebly.com
https://jasonpreu.wordpress.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html?_r=0

Russell Edson - Ape and Coffee & Antimatter

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:19:25 +0000

“When you’re in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics…and one by one if you’re really painting, they walk out. And if you’re really painting YOU walk out.”
Philip Guston

Other topics: anger, Toyota Tacomas, apes, coffee, water, John Goodman. And of course, the wonderfully complex Russell Edson.

AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) William Stafford & William Meredith

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 08:10:17 +0000

Tonight, I sit on my drum throne appreciating DVD players. I pretend to bring you tea and cookies. And then I read to you both William Stafford's "A Ritual to Read to Each Other" & William Meredith's "Poem About Morning."

It was a simple Saturday night, and we both enjoyed it. xo, Robyn

Jorge Luis Borges - The Palace & Yehuda Amichai - A Man in His Life

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:06:57 +0000

These two poets sat in a classroom together and wrote under the prompt: DEATH! Here is what happened. A man doesn't have time, Robyn

Stephanie Goehring - Self-portrait as Craig's List Ad for a Fun Afternoon

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:21:34 +0000

Austin writer Stephanie Goehring allowed me to read from her in-progress manuscript "Who Took This Selfie?" and I couldn't be more grateful. You can find much more about Stephanie and link to the numerous places she's been published on her website http://www.stephaniegoehring.com
There's a lot of internet related sadness in this World, and Stephanie seems to be particularly in tune with the subject. Also on today's podcast, I talk about bananas and assholes. Not the anatomical ones, I like to save that for face-to-face conversations. Until then, Robyn

p.s if you're in the Austin area, you can go hear Stephanie Goehring read at Malvern Books this Friday, October 23rd at 7pm! More info here: http://malvernbooks.com

Margaret Atwood - Mute

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:15:03 +0000

"Why involve yourself? You'd be better to sit off to the side, on the sidewalk under the awning, hands over your mouth, your ears, your eyes...." - Margaret Atwood.

Waiting for the word, Robyn

Patrizia Cavalli & Rafael Alberti

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:48:49 +0000

A man 900,000 years old, or is it 25? A worn-out love. A man staring directly at the sun. I read you two poems today even though my voice sounds like I own a wine bar. Enjoy it. xo, Robyn
p.s. special thanks to http://www.stephaniegoehring.com

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties & Valéry Larbaud "The Gift of Oneself"

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:03:04 +0000

Every day is a good day to read Rilke, especially when he reminds us to celebrate the burdens of life and love and all sorts of other shit. I also read Valéry Larbaud who seems totally cool with laying bare his soul for others to consume. Sound familiar? Take everything I am, Robyn
p.s. if you'd like to win a personal podcast by yours truly, please support my friends over at Free Beer Podcast. They'll be having a fundraiser in Austin on October 17th. Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1700959660139337/

Naomi Shihab Nye - One Boy Told Me

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:43:27 +0000

A poem compiled from thousands of sentences said by the poet's son while he was 2 and 3, this is resonant. I also talk overheard conversations, Jayson Musson, natbrut.com , ekphrasis, found poetry & more. I never want to minus you, Robyn

AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) William Gass - On Being Blue, A Philosophical Inquiry

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 04:00:13 +0000

Sex, Death, Balls, Melancholy, iTunes reviews, Denim, Poems, Blue Crayons, Dahlia, Confederate Money, Royalty Free Music Haters, Longshoremen & Lists. What more could one want? With affection, Robyn

p.s. please see my friend Iva Gueorguieva's stunning and thoughtful solo exhibition at ACME GALLERY. Details: www.acmelosangeles.com

C.K. Williams "Shame" & Vasko Popa "Before the Game"

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:40:00 +0000

I hadn't even stretched or breathed yet this morning when recording this one, so you get to hear me wake up. A dream come true, I'm sure. These are some poems that I had to cut out of previous podcasts due to time constraints. The C.K. Williams one rips me apart. If you've ever felt humiliated, it'll get to you for sure. I'm humiliated. Often. With love, yr girl Robby

Etheridge Knight - Feeling Fucked Up

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:21:15 +0000

Even though I wanted to read this poem to you, what I REALLY want is for you to go listen to Tracy Morgan read it on Def Poetry Jam. So do that! And have a wonderful day, week, year, life. Be kind to yourself. Drink lots of water. Eat an apple. Write letters. Do your thing.

Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:14:41 +0000

C.K. Williams - Wait

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:11:52 +0000

Memorial episode to Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams.

"time, as do you, dismember me, render me, leave me slop in a pail"

AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Osip Mandelstam & Don Paterson

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 02:26:11 +0000

First and foremost, I'd like to apologize for all the "ummmms" in recent episodes. I'm mortified by my horrendous speaking patterns these days. My dear friend (artist) Matthew Sontheimer sent me two really commanding poems via email today. That email & these poems fortified my insides. And I needed reinforcement. So how could I not share with you, my dear sweet friends? Warning though, I'm a little weird today. For that, and for many other things, I am sorry, Robyn

Evan Dalton Smith - Self-Portrait as My Name & Self-Portrait at Conception

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:42:39 +0000

The Greatest Speaking/Reading Voice in The World is that of Evan Dalton Smith. And today, I have the honor of reading you two of his poems. Evan's first book LOOKING FOR ANDY GRIFFITH will be out in 2016, and he can be found on twitter at @evandaltonsmith. "When I wake I fret, strut, destroy." With love, Robyn the Voyeur

Ingeborg Bachmann, poems.

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 17:47:04 +0000

Back on the rough stuff (coffee), I come at you this morning burning. Anne Carson, one of the great loves of my life, is the reason I'm reading you Ingeborg Bachmann today. These three poems are vigorous and clear, and I hope their strength will stun/stir/stimulate you the way they do me.
I lose my screams, Robyn

Jessica Hagedorn - Sorcery

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:11:58 +0000

The ending of this one unravels facets of sapiosexuality, something I'm both close to & agonized by. Please buy "Danger and Beauty", the book from which this sturdy poem came. Jessica Hagedorn, I love you. This poem throbs.

LIVE FROM VEGAS! Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:32:40 +0000

When one thinks of Las Vegas, one immediately thinks of Carson McCullers, am I right? Please enjoy a beautiful passage from The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, as recommended to me by the incomparable artist Jesse Wiedel. I love you guys. Truly, Robyn

The Winners of the "Channing Tatum Attempts To Write Erotic Poetry" Contest Are Announced!

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:09:20 +0000

With many thanks to all who entered, we have our winners! I wish I could have chosen all of you, but the contest winners are "Em" and "David Drury"! Congratulations to them both. I hope you enjoy my readings of these two magnificent entries. And while I did not do either of them justice, I had a goddamn BLAST with these pieces. Em's complex rendition of Donald Barthelme's "Concerning the Bodyguard" was truly mind-blowing. And David's tender understanding of Channing Tatum's inner difficulties was both touching and arousing. The words "chiseled confusion" sum it up nicely.

Em has nothing to plug because she remains a mystery. David can be found on twitter @DavDrury (highly recommend following him) & also at @jeffbreakfast. Also, listen to Tennis Pro! You won't regret it!

Walt Whitman - Song of Myself (1892)

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:06:22 +0000

Today, I finally read the master Walt Whitman. I guess I didn't read him to you yet because it seemed so obvious? I decided to read part 1 & 2 of Song of Myself in case there are any newcomers to Whitman. This is a great place to start. We'll do some deep cuts at a later date. IMPORTANT! DEADLINE for the CHANNING TATUM erotic poetry contest is tonight, midnight Pacific Time. I'll announce the winner on Thursday!

Margaret Atwood-Variation On The Word Sleep & The Moment

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:06:22 +0000

I was full with medium-level energy as I recorded this on my balcony for you this morning. Here is just one of the fantastic lines you'll get to hear today if you listen to this episode: "I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary." I decided to make this a Margaret Atwood week. Today is her poetry. Please enjoy. Please buy any of her many books. Wishing you all well today, as always. XO, Robyn

CHANNING TATUM EROTIC POETRY CONTEST! A description of the contest & an entry.

Robyn O'Neil — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:21:45 +0000

In order to make sure everyone remembers they have to enter the contest by the end of the day, Monday, August 31st, I'm reading you one of my favorite entries so far! Anna Reynolds Wallis imagines Channing Tatum loving her for all she is: greasy bangs (I relate), dirty laundry, reading short stories, and driving her base model Kia. This poem made me laugh so hard! Thanks to Anna for sharing.
Don't forget guys, if you win, you get a drawing by yours truly AND a care package full of all sorts of fun stuff. So ENTER! It's FUN! And I love you.
Royalty free, hip hop, dark,
Robyn

Margaret Atwood - Happy Endings

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:51:45 +0000

There's been a lot of poetry being flung around ME READING STUFF these days, so today I switch it up a bit. I read you a short story by Margaret Atwood that is as devastating as it is hilarious. It's an important one. It's from her 1983 book, "Murder in the Dark" & was published again in 1992 in "Good Bones." You should go buy one of those.
Here's to authentic endings,
Robyn
p.s. only 1 week left in the Channing Tatum erotic poetry contest!

Theodore Roethke - Elegy for Jane (My Student, Thrown by a Horse)

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:57:47 +0000

My friend, artist & musician, Anthony Record, recommended I read you some Theodore Roethke. How could I not? Roethke is one of the best. So is Anthony! And LOOK AT THAT TITLE. "Elegy for Jane (My Student, Thrown by a Horse)"...jesus. That's a title. This poem destroys me. Too bad I don't know how to pronounce Roethke's name. Sorry about that. While we're at it, sorry about a lot of things. I'm cloudy and consumed and not on my "A" game right now. Something about this morning also compelled me to share with you my favorite art & literature journal, Nat. Brut! Please go check their website out ASAP. You won't regret it.
Neither father nor lover,
Robyn

Gertrude Stein-Advertisements & Evian Water from "Geography and Plays", 1922

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:41:59 +0000

Well, well, look who's back? I'm finally reading a little Gertrude Stein for you. I may have chosen the cowardly route by picking pieces that aren't next-to-impossible to get one's tongue around, and for that I am sorry. If you'll stay tuned, I assure you I will soon attempt some of her more strenuous verse.

And someone asked me to explain my obsession with Kleenex, so I dig into that a bit.

Lastly, may we never forget, "romance is everything."

(as if one could),
Robyn

AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Frank O'Hara - As Planned & a surprise entry to the erotic poetry contest!

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 07:21:33 +0000

This is what we do over here at ME READING STUFF occasionally. As the lights of the city dim, and the glorious people of the Land beg for provocation & sweet nothings, we turn that $50 mic on and we READ. We read about Channing Tatum learning about what incense is and living near a Whole Foods. We read about Channing Tatum understanding the difference between dead bird feathers and sex toys. And we also read a poem by the great Frank O'Hara. We do it all over here, and we do it for you.

Are you breathing? I am, but barely.

Sincerely,
Robyn

Hafez - At This Party, An Astronomical Question, Find a Better Job, All the Hemispheres - Hafiz

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:36:37 +0000

Hafez, Persian poet from the 14th century, will blow your mind & help you to find a new lover. No doubt about that. Enjoy this selection of poems about parties, God giving you a full wet kiss, and about quittin' ya day job.

In this episode, I tell you a story about an insane way I once quit a job of mine (in involves being a defiant barista & being killed off in a horror film.) I used to be a terrible liar.

Change rooms in your mind for a day,
Robyn

p.s. also mentioned: Eli Porter, Tenacious D, Bruce Hornsby and being nice.

Donald Hall - Affirmation

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:38:43 +0000

You guys are the first people I spoke to today. Before even my beloved, Coffee.

This morning, I remind you that the Channing Tatum erotic poetry contest is going strong. Please email your stimulating entries to mereadingstuff@icloud.com. The poem today is a quick shot to the heart, and it contains the most powerful and immaculate ending. I know you're going to love it. This is Donald Hall's "Affirmation."

Stifling,
Robyn O'Neil

Sarah Manguso - Siste Viator - Ancient Gods Walk the Earth

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:52:48 +0000

I'm hesitant to expose myself the way I did in this episode, but what are you gonna do? Apparently when you're me, what you do is embarrass yourself. Why the hell not.

Today, from a balcony in Beverly Hills, I perform some raps and songs I wrote in 2nd grade. And then I launch into the real meat of this episode. Siste Viator, a book of poems by Sarah Manguso was recommended to me by a well read listener, and I immediately fell in love with it. I'm positive you will as well. I also read you the Dave Eggers blurb from the back cover explaining why this is the perfect book of poems for those of us not so inclined to read poetry. I know that describes a few of you out there. I'm just sorry you have to hear me singing about my early-onset-jealously towards people with blue eyes first.

Please stay,
Robyn

Leonard Cohen-A Note To The Reader & Rainer Maria Rilke - Put Our My Eyes & The Poet Speaks of Praising

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:59:56 +0000

Hearing Leonard Cohen read his "A Note To The Reader" in the documentary I'M YOUR MAN is about 6 billion times better than hearing me read it, but that didn't stop me from clumsily reading it through my early-morning-sinus coughs. I also read two Rilke poems that you'll enjoy if you have blood inside your body.

From the Underground, with love,
Robyn

Emily Moore-Auld Lang Syne

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:12:14 +0000

Today is just highly erotic. It must be because I'm going to a RUSH concert tonight. Geddy Lee is the picture of SEX, am I right?

Today, I read a beautiful short poem by Emily Moore. She is a poet, musician, and a high school english teacher. I'm thrilled to have been introduced to her work.

And as your little appetizer, I read my first Channing Tatum erotic poetry entry, and in it, we learn that Channing Tatum has fallen in love with Jimmy Fallon. Listen to the e.e. cummings episode to find out more about the contest I'm conducting through August.

RIP Cecil the Lion. I'm sorry that humans are wretched.

Love, Robyn

e.e. cummings - my father moved through dooms of love

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:06:08 +0000

Along with reading e.e. cummings, today I challenge you to write your own poem. But here's the premise. You are Channing Tatum. And this is your secret erotic poetry. Email your finished work to oneilassistant@gmail.com. Winner receives a special drawing made by me!

All my love, Channing Tatum

Heather Christle - I Can't Swim & Reading Is Basically Impossible

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:19:59 +0000

Today I sit on some bathroom floor water and read to you powerful poems by Heather Christle. She's alive right now. And so are you apparently. All of this is a good thing. These poems brought up cherished memories of reading François Rabelais and listening to Nina Nastasia. Let me know what they do for you.

I eat stars, Robyn

Tennessee Williams - Blue Song

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:08:40 +0000

Today was filled with technical glitches, gin-soaked women, and me accidentally stumbling into a replica of Buffalo Bill's lair. Only this one had a crying baby in a playpen, making it that much more fun.

With all the excitement, I almost didn't get around to reading you "Blue Song" by Tennessee Williams. But look at me, I did it. And what a poem it is.

I am tired too, Mr. Williams,
Robyn

Jason Preu - Billy Jean King

Robyn O'Neil — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 01:45:38 +0000

Shhhhhh, this is my WEEKEND BONUS ROUND!!!!! Tonight, as rain fell on Los Angeles and I digested an entire tower of Salt & Vinegar Pringles (SPONSORSHIP PLEA), I decided to read you a hilarious piece by Jason Preu called "Billie Jean King." In it, he informs us of the devastating news that she is not Michael Jackson's lover.

Don't go around breaking young girls' hearts,
Robyn

Heinrich Heine & Frank Stanford & Robinson Jeffers

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:07:53 +0000

If you were looking for a triad of DEATH and FAMILY WOES poems, well guess what? I'm here for you! Today, we have some heavy hitters, including one of my very favorite people who ever walked the face of the Earth, Robinson Jeffers. The other two are Heinrich Heine and Frank Stanford. I love them both dearly as well.
And I love you, Robyn (slightly over my time limit today and I'm so so so so sorry)

Vasko Popa - Give Me Back My Rags IV & A Forgetful Number

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:25:43 +0000

When a poem starts with the line, "Get out of my walled infinity," I'm so in. I discovered the work of Serbian poet Vasko Popa this weekend, and can't get enough. What I can get enough of is how unpalatable these recordings sound to me, so I ask you guys for mic setup suggestions. And I promise, there will be no Kickstarter. I got this.

Out of my mouthful of sun,
Robyn

Lydia Davis - I'm Pretty Comfortable But I Could Be a Little More Comfortable

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 18:26:29 +0000

I am getting better all the time, but I wish nothing bothered me. I meet those people. I live with one of those people. People able to move through life without unnecessary upset. Those are the best people. And dispositionally fortunate.

But for those of us irritated, today I read Lydia Davis's "I'm Pretty Comfortable, But I Could Be a Little More Comfortable." It's funny, it's relatable, and I'm hungry. Yours, Robyn

John Berryman - Dream Song 22 - Of 1826

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:12:41 +0000

Today I barely have a voice, but I went ahead and attempted to read anyway. Apologies for the gravel. The poem today is "Dream Song 22 (Of 1826)" from John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs. By chance, this poem happens to mention the 4th of July, so there you have it. Celebrate. Eat something. Stand in the heat. Look to the sky. Yours, Robyn

Charles Bukowski - The Genius of the Crowd

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:58:18 +0000

This week conjured up many lines from Charles Bukowski's "The Genius of the Crowd", so that's what I'm reading, amongst the bugs, today.

Stop seeking average (imperative),
Robyn

Anne Carson - Glass, Irony & God

Robyn O'Neil — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 04:25:00 +0000

Today I sing to you from an unnamed hotel in an unnamed city. I tell you about how I'm now on iTunes, so please subscribe. Most importantly, I read to you the unrivaled and most complex of all romantics, Anne Carson. She talks here of hitting the wall, and then of alcohol, memory and blood.

Mark Strand - The Continuous Life & Rafael Alberti - Song

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:29:07 +0000

My friend Tim sent me a Mark Strand poem. I immediately loved it. Then I punctuate the reading with a Mark Strand translation of Rafael Alberti. I also talk about laundry and taxes.

Yehuda Amichai - Try To Remember Some Details

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:03:03 +0000

Today, you’ll hear me reading the great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. This guy hit on all cylinders. And with Amichai, those cylinders embedded themselves in things as diverse as sex, agitated lawyers, prayer, geometry & home.

Carson McCullers - Stone Is Not Stone

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:00:59 +0000

Carson McCullers is a personal hero, and while I’d love to read all of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter to you, that’d be ridiculous. So what better way to start a Monday than reading a poem about the maddening enchantment of love?

Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:57:30 +0000

I am a lake. I am a tongue. I am a spirit. I am fevered. I am not covetous. I am the Dark Cavalier. I am the torch. I arise. I ask. I blow. I bring. I cannot change. I cannot look. I climb the hill. I come. I dream. I envy. I found. I heard. I intended an Ode. I know. I love. I must not grieve, my love. I never. I pant. I remember. I saw thee once. I traveled. I wandered. I will. I will. I will. I will.

Wallace Stevens - The Man On The Dump

Robyn O'Neil — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:55:14 +0000

My first real podcast, simply me reading you one of my favorite poems.