"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....
Aug 26, 2021•25 min•Ep. 335
"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
Aug 20, 2021•21 min•Ep. 334
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/Gr...
Aug 12, 2021•19 min•Ep. 333
"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 Shop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shop Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en...
Aug 06, 2021•26 min•Ep. 332
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 pr...
Jun 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 331
"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/boo...
May 06, 2021•22 min•Ep. 330
"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: [email protected] Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/ Me on Twitter: https://t...
Mar 25, 2021•12 min•Ep. 329
"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: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/ Me on Twitter: ht...
Mar 18, 2021•21 min•Ep. 328
"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 ...
Mar 05, 2021•21 min•Ep. 327
"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/r...
Feb 19, 2021•24 min•Ep. 326
"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...
Feb 12, 2021•14 min•Ep. 325
"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 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...
Feb 05, 2021•21 min•Ep. 324
"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 Me on Instagram: ...
Jan 29, 2021•17 min•Ep. 323
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_...
Jan 22, 2021•18 min•Ep. 322
"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 Hand...
Jan 15, 2021•11 min•Ep. 321
"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! ht...
Jan 07, 2021•25 min•Ep. 320
"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-re...
Jan 01, 2021•25 min•Ep. 319
"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...
Dec 25, 2020•19 min•Ep. 318
"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/handwrittennoteson...
Dec 18, 2020•29 min•Ep. 317
"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%3...
Dec 11, 2020•31 min•Ep. 316
"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 Po...
Dec 03, 2020•25 min•Ep. 315
"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
Nov 27, 2020•14 min•Ep. 314
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
Nov 19, 2020•22 min•Ep. 313
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 Lo...
Nov 12, 2020•26 min
“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.ins...
Nov 05, 2020•27 min
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-carso...
Oct 29, 2020•20 min
"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://...
Oct 22, 2020•20 min
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/handwrittennotes...
Oct 15, 2020•15 min
"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/a...
Oct 09, 2020•17 min
"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 S...
Oct 02, 2020•25 min
