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"You have come to the shore. There are no instructions." - Denise Levertov LINKS: Buy The Collected Poems Of Denise Levertov: http://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-collected-poems/ More on Levertov on the New Directions website: http://www.ndbooks.com/author/denise-levertov/ Buy Best Maid Pickles here: http://www.bestmaidproducts.com Check me out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=e...

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace. -Patricia Highsmith, age 26, at 2:30 am New Year’s Eve 1947 in her journal. LINKS: Buy Highsmith's The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Animal...

Keep yourself warm When the pools are freezing, Here, at the bottom of the sky, When the sky is thin, and does not hold And the soul is set free. -Haavikko LINKS: Buy World Poetry, An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time here: https://www.amazon.com/World-Poetry-Anthology-Verse-Antiquity/dp/0393041301

"I want...........poets reading to small audiences." - John Wieners “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” -Thomas Paine LINKS: My show at Susan Inglett Gallery tomorrow night! Info here: https://mailings.artlogic.net/readonline/99be6bd218024a08819063192317e531 Buy John Wieners “Stars Seen in Person, Selected Journals” here: http://w...

LINKS: Buy Kenneth Koch's Collected Poems here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/94568/the-collected-poems-of-kenneth-koch-by-kenneth-koch/9780375711190/ Buy one of my favorite books of all time, Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: https://www.abebooks.com/9780856464348/Vasko-Popa-Complete-Poems-1953-1987-0856464341/plp Come see my solo exhibition in NYC next week here: https://mailings.artlo...

"I say, let me be, please God, typical."-Donald Barthelme “How you do anything is how you do everything.” - Richard Rohr "I'm sorry." - Me LINKS: Buy Mary Ruefle's My Private Property here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/my-private-property Wave Books is on fire always: http://www.wavepoetry.com Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ro...

"The coarse salt on the pretzels fills me with such glee I can't express it." -W. Herzog "The ribbed indentations of the Ore-Ida crinkle cut french fries gives me life. Also, I have no problem with iceberg lettuce." - R. O'Neil LINKS: Buy Werner Herzog's Of Walking in Ice here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/of-walking-in-ice Go to Rogue Film School here: http://roguefilmschool.com...

“I like to read because it kills me.” -Mary Ruefle LINKS: Buy Mary Ruefle’s new book “My Private Property” at Wave Books here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/my-private-property NYC, come see me: http://www.inglettgallery.com/oneil-3-february-2017 LA, come see me: https://revisingloneliness.com/2017/01/09/i-present-two-at-echo-park-film-center/ Trailer for my film: https://vimeo.com/26486761 E...

(I'll be back next week, I promise) (and I'm sorry) Can you head out into the world without issue? Can you think about your past and be all "ehhh, it was ok, no big deal." Can you attend a party and enjoy it? Can you just eat regular, healthy meals & head to the gym after work and not overthink the whole thing? Well good for you! Please listen to another reading of Anne Boyer from her astoundi...

You know the old proverb, "If you follow bikini models on instagram, your eyes and brain will dull into nothingness." Well, let's keep in mind the other one, "If you follow smart, interesting & talented people on instagram, your insides will glow & you'll become more intelligent with every scroll downward." I follow Water Liars on instagram, so my insides get to glow a lot. And thanks for...

God help you. Jesus help you. Everybody else help you. Everybody. Everybody make happy. Make everybody happy. Be a comedian. -Bill Borchardt LINKS: Buy "American Movie" here: http://www.secondspin.com/s/product/1012045?c3apiks=362_969172&cid=1334109&gclid=Cj0KEQjw09C5BRDy972s6q2y4egBEiQA5_guv8XgnJNJAAm7lQ0ecVlCU5GrwPsb6aX7fK3NlCMJ1CQaAq1W8P8HAQ#.VzS7PccleRs Watch this scene here: https://w...

It goes like this. Nude Body. Bed. Public hairs detach and stick to blankets. They migrate north. They attach to pillow cases and jump onto human faces. End of story. LINKS: More on Robert Yarber: http://www.robertyarber.com Buy 50 Texas Artists by Annette Carlozzi here: https://www.amazon.com/50-Texas-Artists-ANNETTE-CARLOZZI/dp/B00AQ5ENNE David Drury's new project Folded Shorts here: https://www...

Today I admit some things and I ask some questions. I didn't talk about it, but I thought about steamed vegetables while recording this. Cabbage. And finally, never has a poet illustrated my way of crushing on people in high school more accurately. "If you come anywhere near my house, I will close my sandalwood doors, and lock you in." -Mirabai LINKS: Buy Robert Bly's The Winged Energy of Delight...

No dogs in this race. Too many dogs in other races. Is it even "race?" Is it "fight?" Either way, too many dogs. Too many races. Way too many fights. LINKS: Buy The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8195-2210-8 More on Donald Revell here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/donald-revell Me on instagram: https:...

Today, I ask that you take off your tight jeans. Privately, away from me. LINKS: Buy “Migration” by W.S. Merwin here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BE438BB84-0D6E-4AB4-B564-0FDB6B4DB0C3%7D Sign up for a Poem-a-day here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day I’m on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/ I’m on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_...

"It's occurred to me I've read enough, at my age all I'm doing is confirming my sadness." -C.K. Williams My own personal heart right now: 4.67 LINKS: Buy "Wait" by C.K. Williams here: http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374532765 Write ME READING STUFF an iTunes review here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/me-reading-stuff/id1010827465?mt=2 Take the Enneagram test(s) here: https://www.eclecticen...

"Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other." - Claudia Rankine LINKS: Rankine's VITAL books from Graywolf Press: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/dont-let-me-be-lonely https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen Stephanie Goehring's website, including info on how to hire her for copy editing, editing, freelance work: http://www.stephaniegoehring.com If you're in Austin, you c...

"I woke up at 12:30p.m. and sat on my bed. I emailed people and ate cereal and that took three hours because I took my time. When I finished I didn't know what to do so I emailed some more people." - tao lin LINKS: Buy "you are a little bit happier than i am" here: http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780976569237/you-are-a-little-bit-happier-than-i-am-.aspx More on Tao Lin with Michael Silverblatt h...

"The making of a home is a serious problem." I HEAR THAT, FABRE! More gripping sentences from this crazy book: "They are, I am convinced, completely ignorant of their own wonderful talents." "This is how things happen." "The mouth of the cells is, of course, always turned upwards. A pot cannot hold its contents if it be upside down." Oh and one chapter is called "SELF-DENIAL OF THE SPANISH COPRIS....

“REALITY IS A SOUND, YOU HAVE TO TUNE IN TO IT NOT JUST KEEP YELLING” By the way, if someone makes me a GOD LOVES LOLA t-shirt, I'll give them 12 million dollars. By which I mean: "a postcard-sized drawing." Now, go clean your desks, goofies! LINKS: Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/24642/autobiography-of-red/ More on Anne Carson here: https://www.poetryfoundation....

Here's how I ordered at Subway the other day: "Ummmm, hi yeah, ummmm do you, do you guys still ummm have those ummmm veggie patties, ummm the things that are vegetarian options umm, yeah? You do? Ok, hi. Ummm yeah then I'd like to order uhhh that ummm on white bun, a white bun? Bread? Italian...umm whatever the white bun is called. What do you call it? White buns?.....ummmm yeah can I get the vegg...

Some people eat asparagus. Some people have never noticed you at all. LINKS: Buy The Winged Energy of Delight by Robert Bly here: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060575824/qid=1090879888/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/002-4912564-7445659?v=glance&s=books%0D I'm on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/ I'm on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcam...

(in the comments section on instagram) Tell me anything. Your dream car. Your fave sandwich (in detail). Your least favorite memory. Your favorite month. The person you miss the most. The song you wish you would never hear again. Tell me about the time you got rid of a behavior that wasn't serving you anymore. Or just tell me to shut the hell up! LINKS: Buy The Selected Writings of Kharms here: ht...

"I am still interested in acknowledging that the people who read books have other priorities, and I want to consider those. I want to write books of poems interesting enough that they can compete with the need to get a raincoat cleaned." - Ted Kooser "I detest elitism of any kind." - Ted Kooser SO MANY LINKS TODAY: Buy Kooser's Delights & Shadows here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/b...

"D Han are thanked, And as benefactors ranked...___Ke_and_e___ in marshy ground." -words from a mystery email I received this week. Even though the person called me "Melissa Minshew" Listen to find out what this is all about. And goodnight! Brush your little baby teeth. LINKS: A republication of "Oriental Literature: The Literature of China" edited by E. Wilson from Palala Press: https://www.amazo...