A personal podcast in which Robyn O’Neil reads poems, essays, letters, recipes, and other pieces that feel alive in the moment, interspersed with her own reflections, laughter, and thoughts on life and art. It is designed to feel like lunch with a good friend: warm, unfiltered, and a little strange. The show offers companionship through books and conversation, encouraging listeners to escape together and feel a little less alone.
Episodes
Episode 418: Summer Break, Continued Delusions, and a Poem by Joshua Garvelink
"He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby"I'm ready to take over the airwaves." ~Me, The Great Delusion LINKS+Josh Garvelink's SUBSTACK and INSTAGRAM+My SHOP+My WEBSITE+My INSTAGRAM+My SUBSTACKThank you to anyone reading this. I so appre
Episode 417: C.K. Williams & Definitions of "Quiet"
Thanking Mediocre Nurses, A Play by Robyn O'NeilACT 1: Transparency about a failing enterprise ACT 2: Two questions and an answerACT 3: Keep Dying, Keep Writing it DownACT 4: Get QuietLINKS+Buy C.K. Williams' Writers Writing Dying+Buy The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus+My SHOP+My WEBSITE+My INSTAGRAM+My SUBSTACK
Episode 416: ❣️This Podcast's 20th Anne Carson Episode❣️
“We are amazing beings. We are neighbors of fire.” - Anne CarsonContinuing to reread from some of ME READING STUFF's top rated books/writers, we celebrate living legend Anne Carson and Autobiography of Red, yet again. This is the 20th episode dedicated to Anne Carson, and it certainly won't be the last. Other topics include: hot dogs, stuffers, vacuuming, and my "nine months in Colombia".
Episode 415: 🏀Celebrating the Poetry of Sportstalk with Fan Favorite: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion!🎾
This week, we return to everyone's favorite poetry book, Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker. In Metta World Peace's poem, he discusses the difference between elbow and shell pasta.Anna Kournikova's poem talks about how many boyfriends she’s gonna kiss. And we end with an impromptu reading of the lyrics of superstar and friend to the show
Episode 414: 🎙️The 11th Anniversary Special: The Poem That Started It All – "The Man on the Dump"
🎙️ The 11th Anniversary of ME READING STUFF 🎂Dear listener, Well, we've officially been kicking it for ELEVEN YEARS. Through vasectomies, divorce, mystery illnesses, breakdowns, fevers, estrangement, Covid, moves, near-death experiences, remarriage, Las Vegas hotel rooms, heart surgeries, parenthood, hauntings, and meetings with the ©️Kleenex company. Think of how much water we've drunk s
Episode 413: Dionne Brand – "Islands Vanish" from Nomenclature
This week marks the return to THROWING BOOKS ACROSS THE ROOM!!!! So exciting. Dionne Brand's "Islands Vanish" really had me feeling all sorts of things. It was a pleasure to read it to you. I extend appreciation to her for "hunting for slave castles with a pencil for explosives." Not many hunt so rigorously. It's shattering. This episode also includes an impassioned Recommendation Corner
Episode 412: 📚Wendell Berry, Building Altars & Exhaustion
This week, I read to you from a 1992 poetry anthology called The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman and Michael Meade. Wendell Berry's poem "Ripening" leads to a discussion about death and altar-building. I also kick a few people out of the podcast 😲, and bemoan my exhaustion levels. Thank you for listening - I love you guys❣️LINKS:Buy The Rag and Bone Sho
Episode 411: Taschen's The Book of Symbols: The Color Gray
"I know how furiously your heart is beating." ~Wallace Stevens, The Gray Room"The tense American nerve relaxed. I lived with a gray quietness that let the mind grow inward like a root." ~Paul EngleLINKS:Taschen's The Book of Symbols My WebsiteMy ShopMy SubstackMy Instagram
Episode 410: Charles Simic & Anne Carson – A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925-2025)
On today's episode, I read from a MASSIVE birthday gift, A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925 – 2025), Edited by Kevin Young. The readings are:
Charles Simic's "This Morning"
Anne Carson's "Epithalamium NYC"
LINKSBuy A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker MY NEW WEBSITE Check out my friend Jack's website!My Instagram My Substack“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of
Episode 409: Andy Warhol - "Atmosphere" from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
"I love to walk but I can'tI love to swim but I can'tI love to sit in the sun but I can't I love to smell the flowers but I can'tI love to play tennis but I can'tI love to water-ski but I can't"~Andy Warhol"Lime flavored sparkling waters taste like Fruity Pebbles." ~MeLINKS:Buy The Philosophy of Andy WarholCheck out my InstagramCheck out my SubstackCheck out my Website (FINALLY updating M
Episode 408: Mason Currey – Daily Rituals: Women at Work (Octavia Butler & Martha Graham)
"I enjoy people best if I can be alone much of the time." – Octavia Butler"Talk is a privilege and one must deny oneself that privilege." – Martha Graham"I love saying "refrigerator."" – MeLINKSPick up Mason Currey's Daily Ritual BooksFollow Mason Currey's SubstackFollow me on InstagramBuy my book 20 YEARS OF DRAWINGSFollow Anne J. Regan on InstagramThe BIG Eastfork Mug I bought myself.
Episode 407: Laurie Anderson - O Superman
"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them." ~Laurie Anderson"Do you clean yourself well?" ~MeLINKS:Listen/Watch Laurie Anderson's O SupermanMy new Substack PostMy newsletter signup at the bottom of MY WEBSITE.My FIRST COMIC!My INSTAGRAMThe t
Episode 406: Mystery Poem Found in a Library Book
Today's anonymous poem was found in my library book about Medieval Art and was dated Feb 7, 1958! How exciting is that?!? I also answer some listener questions & ask you some of my own in everyone's favorite segment - Question Corner. I wish you well, I hope you can gain acceptance of disappointment, and we shall find peace.With love, Robby LINKS:My InstagramMy Youtube
Episode 405: Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg
Today, I explain how I use my fists to understand the days in a month. I regret (again) not learning Greek or its myths. We read Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg. We celebrate taking walks, aggressively. And something about Doritos. LINKS:Buy The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem HERE.Buy Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass HERE.Check out BLURRING BOOKS! Watch the Walt Whitman scene i
Episode 404: A Michael Silverblatt Tribute & a David Markson Reading
"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
"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 thi
Episode 402: The Public Domain Review & The Bold and the Beautiful
"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 CelebrationLINKSVisit The Public Domain ReviewWatch The Bold and the Beautiful My InstagramMy SubstackJoin Grig's Poetry PartyListen/Watch to Anne Carson's Lecture on Corners.
Episode 401: An After Dark Special! Vasko Popa for Valentine's Day
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, Robynp.s. can you believe I'm back for a 3rd week in a row? I can't!LINKSBuy Vasko Popa's Complete WorksMy InstagramMy Substack My Website
Episode 400: Geri Jewell - I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond
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 Disabili
Episode 399: The World Book Encyclopedia - The Letter "A"
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 SubstackMy Instagram
Episode 398: Agnes Martin - On Beauty
"My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines." - Agnes Martin"Oh really, bitch? I don't think so!" - My BodyLINKS: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
"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." - MeLINKS:Buy The Best American Essays of The CenturyBuy Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary BuilderLearn 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
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 f
Episode 395: Lydia Davis - Priority (Again) & Answer Corner
"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." - MeLINKS: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 WebsiteMy Youtube
Episode 394: The Life of Northern Calloway (David from Sesame Street)
"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 CallowayMy SubstackDamien Jurado's record label - Maraqopa
Episode 393: Joshua Rivkin - In the Black (on Cy Twombly)
Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy. Love, RobynLINKS: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 JohnsHenry Darger
Episode 392: Steve Zirnkilton - In the Criminal Justice System
"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-TLINKS:Get your drawing! Subscribe to my SubstackWatch the Driver 23 / Atlas Moth TrailerWatch the Fitzcarraldo TrailerThe NBC article on Steve Zirnkilton Listen to the Steve Zirnkilton Law & Order SVU Intr
Episode 391: Sick Day
Dear Boss, I am sick.Love, Robyn
Episode 390: Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy
A - ABLE-MINDEDB - BICUSPID C - CROSS-EXAMINATION K - Keeping You CompanyWith love, RobynLINKS: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 SubtackMY Shop
Episode 389: Copy & Paste: The Cold Episode
LINKS:My SubstackBuy my book HERE.Watch American Movie HERE.
Episode 388: Encyclopedia Corner - Lighting & Lightning
"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"LINKSMy SubstackSubterranea
Episode 387: Letters of Note / E.B. White / My Voiceover
"I must decline, for secret reasons." ~E.B. WhiteLINKS:My SubstackSee Letters of Note on InstagramME READING STUFF shirts at the bottom of THIS page.California Scrub JayStellar's Jay
Episode 386: Anne Carson - Short Talks
"A trotting animal can restore red hearts to red." - Anne Carson (Short Talk on My Task)LINKS:Buy Anne Carson's Short TalksListen 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
"In the end I would rather wonder than know." -Mary RuefleLINKS: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
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
Episode 383: Franz Kafka & Katt Williams
"'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 an
Episode 382: Catullus 85
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
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=9780316184151I 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-booksOth
Episode 380: "Part 1: Party" featuring words by Charles Simic & Melody Beattie
"Go inside a stone.That would be my way.Let somebody else become a dove."-Charles SimicBuy 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
"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, 2023LINKS:Watch "Enlightened" on HBO
Episode 378: Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (The Rhinoceros)
"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." - MeLINKS: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
Episode 377: I'll Be Back!
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.comMy website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en
Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
"We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries." - Dire Straits "I love turkey sandwiches." - MeLINKS: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=w1d1eobg9QYMy #2 Favorite Damien live video: https://www.youtube.com
Episode 375: Anne Carson - The Albertine Workout
"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." - MeLINKS: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. SMELL LINKS:Zum Laundry SoapZum Bar SoapPacha Soap
Episode 374: Daniil Kharms - The Things
"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." - MeLINKS:Buy "Today I Wrote Nothing" HERE (or wherever you buy books except Amazon).Buy a ME READING STUFF slut shirt or hoodie HERE
Episode 373: Patrizia Cavalli - My Poems Won't Change the World
“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." - MeLINKS: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 i
Episode 372: Mary Ruefle - On Beginnings
"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______________________________________________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
Episode 371: Mark Strand - The Mailman
"We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole." - Mark Strand"Have you guys seen the new squeezable sauerkraut?!?" - MeLINKS: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
Episode 370: C.K. Williams & Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
"Such fun waking up though! Such fun too if you don't! Keep dying! Keep writing it down!" - C.K. Williams"Message received." - MeLINKS: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
"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
Episode 368: Robinson Jeffers - The World's Wonders
"I have also seen doom." -Robinson Jeffers"As you can see, I need to breathe." - Robyn O'NeilLINKS:Buy Robinson Jeffers' Selected Poems Hit up my website www.robynoneil.com
Episode 367: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (again)
"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 LINKS:Buy Anne Boyer's Garme
Episode 366: Elsa Gidlow - Of a Certain Friendship
"I have loved too terribly and too much Ever to have any fear of love." - Elsa Gidlow"Indoor plumbing is my favorite invention." - MeLINKS:Buy Elsa Gidlow books HERE! Poem-a-Daywww.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram
Episode 365: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Rest
boketto - to stare vacantly without doing anythingfriend - a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affectionperfectionist - a person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection LINKS:Buy Rest : Why You Get More Done When You Work LessInfo on my show AMERICAN ANIMALSOnline Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALSCatalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALSwww.robynoneil.comMe
Episode 364: Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks (and a conversation with Damien Jurado!)
“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 NotebooksInfo on my show AMERICAN ANIMALSOnline Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALSCatalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALSwww.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram
Episode 363: Chika Sagawa - Composition in Three Primary Colors
"The post office is a mile away." -Chika Sagawa "Forgive yourself, forgive others, buy those refried beans." - MeLINKS:Buy The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593230015Info 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 AN
Episode 362: Kevin Prufer - Black Woods (and Bill Callahan lyrics)
"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" - MeLINKS:Kevin Prufer's website: https://www.kevinprufer.comInfo on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals
Episode 361: Yosef Ibn Zabara - My Ex - Look at These People - The Physician
"Take pleasure today in the friend at your side; tomorrow he'll leave, and the joy will die." - Avraham Ibn EzraLINKS:Buy "The Dream of the Poem" here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poemInfo 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
Episode 359: The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, Edited by Eliot Weinberger
"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 YuLINKS:More on this book and where to purchase it here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-new-directions-anthology-of-classical-chinese-poetry/?source=searchMy upcoming show at Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.comMy website: www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram
Episode 358: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "A Starling"
“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." - MeLINKS: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 que
Episode 357: Mark Strand & Vladimir Nabokov
“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." -MeLINKS:Buy Mark Stran
Episode 356: Choi Seungja - Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me
"That I am alive is no more than an endless rumor." - Choi Seungja"You don't want an ombre hairstyle on your teeth." - Mep.s. I have an ombre hairstyle on my teethLINKS: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
Episode 355: Robert Creeley - A Day Book
"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." - MeLINKS: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-mhVIgVsBc5Q
Episode 354: Kassia St. Clair - Acid Yellow
"Pueblo, Concrete, Maniac" - MeLINKS: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-singleMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil
Episode 353: Jameson O'Hara Laurens - Spell for a Drowning Man
"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-collegeWarm your mug: https://www.mrcoffee.com/ac
Episode 352: Graham Burnam - The Thing That Got My Fun
"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/9781400044238Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https://inman-gallery.square.site/pro
Episode 351: Marlene Dietrich - Daily Rituals
"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=PRHB7BD76FBDBBuy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here:
Episode 350: David Markson - This is Not a Novel
“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." - MeLINKS:Buy "This is Not a Novel" at your local independent bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781619027145Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Gallery here: https://inman-gallery.square.site/product/robyn-o-neil-yong-kiang-hotel-li
Episode 349: Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco - Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (Selected & Translated by Janet Hendrickson)
"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." - MeLINKS:Buy Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language here: https://bookshop.org/books/treasure-of-the-castilian-or-spanish-language/9780811228602Buy Dave Egger
Episode 348: Wislawa Szymborska - Nonreading
"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-9780547592091/9780547592091Buy "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-roby
Episode 347: Charles Simic - Dime-Store Alchemy
“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=1094929469Order my 2021 Headstone Greeting Cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickersMe on In
Episode 346: Anna Akhmatova - Seventh Book
"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/9780939010271Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickersBuy a ME READING STUFF shirt or sweatshirt to support The Trev
Episode 345: Melody Thomas Scott - Always Young and Restless
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/9781635766943Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickersMy website: www.robynoneil.co
Episode 344: A.L. Snijders - Night Train (translated by Lydia Davis)
"Everything has its story." - A.L. Snijders"I'm a soap opera scholar." - MeLINKS: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/shopSupport The Trevor Project by buying ME READING STUFF shirts here: https://cottonburea
Episode 343: Werner Herzog - Conquest of the Useless
"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 HerzogLINKS:Buy Werner Herzog's Conquest of the Useless here (ON SAL
Episode 342: Kool Keith & Fran Lebowitz
"You workin' hard lady? I don't believe you." - Kool Keith"Are you an original? I don't believe you." - MeLINKS:Kool Keith's "Matthew": https://koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/matthewListen to "I Don't Believe You" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4Y16Hb6RMBuy The Fran Lebowitz Reader here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/99063/the-fran-lebowitz-reader-by-fran-lebowitz/Head t
Episode 341: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (Yes, again)
"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." - MeLINKS:Buy Garments Against Women here: https://www.mobythegreat.com/books/anne-boyer/garments-against-women/9780141990217?gclid=CjwKCAjwtfqKBhBoEiwAZuesiNrZKfmdDm3cfsCp_4cA3ysYNXTUAvX3
Episode 340: The School of Life Dictionary - Ugliness
"Beauty is as rare as mass murder." - The School of Life Dictionary "I need better bras, but refuse to wear good bras anymore." - MeLINKS: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-eggersBuy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://
Episode 339: Keaton Patti - I Forced a Bot to Write This Book
"She had no horses but thought she did." -Keaton Patti's Bot"Garlic powder is prob the most important thing to me." - Yours TrulyLINKS:Buy "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book" here: https://linktr.ee/IForcedABotMy Website: https://www.robynoneil.comMy Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.c
Episode 338: Etel Adnan - The Arab Apocalypse
"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) MeLINKS: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/shopCheck out the show I'm in with the Studio Archive Project: https:/
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