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

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?

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?

"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

"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

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

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

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/

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/

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