ME READING STUFF

“We are amazing beings. We are neighbors of fire.” - Anne Carson Continuing 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". With l...

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 Cécile...

🎙️ 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 since 20...

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, a Mini...

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 Shop of t...

"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 Engle LINKS: Taschen's The Book of Symbols  My Website My Shop My Substack My Instagram 

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" LINKS Buy  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 the...

"I love to walk but I can't I love to swim but I can't I love to sit in the sun but I can't I love to smell the flowers but I can't I love to play tennis but I can't I love to water-ski but I can't" ~Andy Warhol "Lime flavored sparkling waters taste like Fruity Pebbles." ~Me LINKS: Buy The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Check out my Instagram Check out my Substack Check out my Website (FINALLY updating...

"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."" – Me LINKS Pick up Mason Currey's Daily Ritual Books Follow Mason Currey's Substack Follow me on Instagram Buy my book 20 YEARS OF DRAWINGS Follow Anne J. Regan on Instagram The BIG Eastfork Mug I bought myself.

"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?" ~Me LINKS: Listen/Watch Laurie Anderson's O Superman My new Substack Post My newsletter signup at the bottom of MY WEBSITE. My FIRST COMIC ! My INSTAGRAM The t...

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 Instagram My Youtube  

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 in Now,...

"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 . 

"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 think mostl...

"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 Celebration LINKS Visit The Public Domain Review Watch The Bold and the Beautiful My Instagram My Substack Join Grig's Poetry Party Listen/Watch to Anne Carson's Lecture on Corners.

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, Robyn p.s. can you believe I'm back for a 3rd week in a row? I can't! LINKS Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Works My Instagram My Substack My Website

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 Disability in Hol...

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 Substack My Instagram

"My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines." - Agnes Martin "Oh really, bitch? I don't think so!" - My Body LINKS: Learn more about artist Agnes Martin HERE . Buy "On Beauty" by Agnes Martin through PACE . Buy "Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words" on INDIEBOUND . 

"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." - Me LINKS: Buy The Best American Essays of The Century Buy Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder Learn more about my drawing HELL See James Ensor in front of Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 as an old man. 

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 first tim...

"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." - Me LINKS: 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 Website My Youtube

"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 Calloway My Substack Damien Jurado's record label - Maraqopa

Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy. Love, Robyn LINKS: 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 Johns Henry Darger

"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-T LINKS: Get your drawing! Subscribe to my Substack Watch the Driver 23 / Atlas Moth Trailer Watch the Fitzcarraldo Trailer The NBC article on Steve Zirnkilton Listen to the Steve Zirnkilton Law & Order SVU Intro B...