By Robyn O'Neil
Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil
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"We are at a party that doesn't love us." - Tomas Tranströmer"We sure the fuck are." - MeLINKS:Buy Tomas Tranströmer's "The Great Enigma" here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop
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...
"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." -...
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...
"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...
"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:...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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:...
"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:...
"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...
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
"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...
"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 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...
"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...
"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:...
"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 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...
"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
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
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...
“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...
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...
"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
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:...
"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...
"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...
"...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...
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
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
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...
"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...
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...
"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.”...
“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...
"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...
"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...
"...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,...
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...