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ME READING STUFF

Robyn O'Neilwww.podomatic.com

Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil

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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." - Me LINKS: Buy Elsa Gidlow books HERE! Poem-a-Day www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram...

Jun 09, 202245 minEp. 366

Episode 365: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Rest

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...

Jun 02, 20221 hr 10 minEp. 365

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." - 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 AMERIC...

May 20, 202222 minEp. 363

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" - 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/...

May 16, 202227 minEp. 362

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 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/...

May 06, 202227 minEp. 361

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

Apr 15, 202247 minEp. 359

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." - 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: [email protected] My website: www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

Feb 04, 202237 minEp. 358

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

Jan 28, 202257 minEp. 357

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." - 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.co...

Jan 21, 202237 minEp. 356

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." - 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/?...

Jan 14, 202225 minEp. 355

Episode 354: Kassia St. Clair - Acid Yellow

"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: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/ Me on Twitter: https://twitter...

Jan 06, 202235 minEp. 354

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-college Warm your mug: https://www.mrcoffee.com/accessories/mug-warmers/mr.coffee-mug-warmer/SAP_MWBLKPDQRB.html Hop Your John: https://www.simplyrecipes.co...

Dec 31, 202148 minEp. 353

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/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:/...

Dec 24, 20211 hr 15 minEp. 352

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=PRHB7BD76FBDB 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=c...

Dec 17, 202119 minEp. 351

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." - Me LINKS: Buy "This is Not a Novel" at your local independent bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781619027145 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 Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handw...

Dec 10, 202134 minEp. 350

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." - Me LINKS: Buy Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language here: https://bookshop.org/books/treasure-of-the-castilian-or-spanish-language/9780811228602 Buy Dave Eggers's "The Every" with my drawings on the cover here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/fron...

Dec 03, 202121 minEp. 349

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-9780547592091/9780547592091 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/p...

Nov 30, 202120 minEp. 348

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=1094929469 Order my 2021 Headstone Greeting Cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwri...

Nov 19, 202125 minEp. 347

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/9780939010271 Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt or sweatshirt to support The Trevor Project here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-...

Nov 11, 202132 minEp. 346

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/9781635766943 Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers My website: www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.c...

Nov 05, 202121 minEp. 345

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

"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 Tre...

Oct 29, 202130 minEp. 344

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 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 He...

Oct 21, 202148 minEp. 343

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." - 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 My Website: https://www.robynoneil...

Oct 14, 202124 minEp. 342

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." - Me LINKS: Buy Garments Against Women here: https://www.mobythegreat.com/books/anne-boyer/garments-against-women/9780141990217?gclid=CjwKCAjwtfqKBhBoEiwAZuesiNrZKfmdDm3cfsCp_4cA3ysYNXTUAvX3YEHFst5LXVIBjpTnI2LkUxoCXXUQAvD_BwE My Website: https://www.robynoneil.com My Shop: https://www.robynoneil...

Oct 08, 202118 minEp. 341

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." - 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/ My Website: https://www.robynoneil.com My Shop: https://w...

Sep 30, 202125 minEp. 340

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 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 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 Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Pass...

Sep 24, 202128 minEp. 339

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) 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 o...

Sep 17, 202126 minEp. 338

Episode 337: Marie Howe - What the Living Do

“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...

Sep 09, 202123 minEp. 337

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

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

Sep 02, 202119 minEp. 336
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