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Some definitions for today: Hikes: Seems like you're going' up hills a lot and you're in dirt. Walking: strolling down the street in your city, havin' a good time. LINKS: The Interview: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4569/the-art-of-fiction-no-29-katherine-anne-porter Buy the Book: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/writers-at-work-the-paris-review-interviews-2nd-series/1657204/?gclid=CjwKEAiA...

Stay strong everybody. LINKS: Buy James Galvin's book "As Is" here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={33AECE7B-9CB3-4F49-9DAA-F88430441392} Check out more from Stephanie Goehring right here: http://www.stephaniegoehring.com and here: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring and here! https://www.instagram.com/eselgoehring/ Wallace Stevens's The Man on the Dump: http://www.poetryf...

1. Calm down 2. Be nicer to myself 3. Shut up 4. Breathe like Julie So much love, Robyn LINKS!: Wislawa Szymborska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisława_Szymborska#cite_note-reuters_death-3 Buy Szymborska's "Here": http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Here/9780547504643?atrkid=V3ADW6700B927_17288355412_pla-97894453372__70201759372_g_c_pla__1o1&gclid=Cj0KEQiA6vS2BRDH8dq06YDHz_IBEiQAzNdBmes2GxHQjBny...

Energy levels are low; passion levels are high. I made sure no one listening was a racist, bigot, or a sexist. They are not welcome here. And did an iTunes reviewer call me a bad name? Listen to find out more! I love you guys, Robyn LINKS: Purchase "Good Poems", Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/good-poems/253821/?gclid=Cj0KEQiA3t-2BRCKivi-suDY24gBEiQAX...

"All night your empty shoes screamed alongside your bed." Tonight, I almost went to bed, but didn't. With love, Robyn LINKS: Buy the book "The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai" here: http://www.lybrary.com/the-selected-poetry-of-yehuda-amichai-p-255360.html?gclid=Cj0KEQiA3t-2BRCKivi-suDY24gBEiQAX1wiXMgkqHpoXkSWgK98NSBQET2tyAmqzDjQwcL_b1RSSPEaAvqc8P8HAQ

Me on the phone. I don't like it. Me with blankets. I like it. You being nice. I like it. You with happiness. I like it. LINKS: World Poetry book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203921.World_Poetry Werewolf at Charlie James Gallery: http://www.cjamesgallery.com/show-detail/werewolf Nick Brown's work: http://nickbrownart.net

tired adjective 1 you're just tired from traveling: exhausted, worn out, weary, fatigued, dog-tired, dead beat, bone-tired, ready to drop, drained, zonked, wasted, enervated, jaded; informal done in, bushed, whipped, bagged, knocked out, wiped out, pooped, tuckered out. ANTONYMS energetic, wide awake, fresh. LINKS: More info on Sohrab Sepehri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Sepehri Harvester...

Is there anybody up in here who ain't on birth control? LINKS What it's like to be in the studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBtfK-aCn3Q This is not the exact book I read from, but this will get you through the week: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/156629/the-collected-poems-of-theodore-roethke/ More on vasectomies: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/vasectomy

I'm in Wichita. See the connection there? I guess I'm traveling around the Midwest recording myself too. This is the same Midwest that once surrounded my elementary school body as it traveled to Pizza Hut in my mom's van once a month so I could BOOK IT! Which is why I became such an obsessive reader, and ultimately why I do this podcast! This one is for you, Bud Gates. LINKS: About the 50th annive...

Say no to sandpaper; say yes to locating your spouse's Foreman Grill. Riding, riding, Robyn LINKS: Mark Halliday's "Selfwolf": http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3624976.html Matthew Sontheimer: http://www.talleydunn.com/artist/view/matthew_sontheimer/21 Harvester Arts: http://www.harvesterarts.com George Foreman Grill: http://www.georgeforemancooking.com

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

Dear friends, I set up my $40 mic next to an old cold cup of coffee. Not OLD old, just mildly old. I probably last took a sip out of it around 1pm. It is now 10:24pm. This is night in the shittiest part of Beverly Hills. Billy made me spaghetti and salad tonight. Billy is already asleep. I will now do other things with the evening. I'm not happy with this After Dark for whatever reason. But I am d...

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-wome...

"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...

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...

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 drif...

Do you love me? Does your neck smell like a campfire? Are you going to be obsessed with this Mark Strand short story? YES YES AND YES. "A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves." - Marcel Proust From my shade of blue to yours, Robyn BUY THIS BOOK HERE: http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062424891/mr-and-mrs-baby-deluxe-edition

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...

Today: Low energy. Canadian praise. Heavy air of grief. Tenderness and sparks and homeless and arguments and it's all ok. Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org Tyler Bright Hilton: http://www.tylerbrighthilton.com Jay Dart: http://www.thedart.ca

The title of this podcast is, "RESPECT THIS HUSTLE" This is not an angry podcast. But it almost was! Isn't life fun? No? Yeah, I know. But... "perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday" Your friend in all kinds of matters, Robyn The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/154369/the-selected-poetry-of-rainer-maria-rilke/ Cool photo of me taken Sunday n...

And meanwhile, you, in the wind. xo, Robyn DEFINITELY buy this book. But I couldn't find it anywhere but Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Poetry-Drummond-Andrade-Alberti/dp/0375709886 My hero: http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce07b8c-be95/k2-_1359e45c-57a8-4d19-9743-1c16b358cc8a.v1.jpg

For $75 a month, I rented a house that didn't laugh at me. And I'll be happy to make your decisions for you. Also, we ate so much spaghetti back then. I taught Trent what a colander was, and he showed me Hieronymus Bosch. I'm exhausted, Robyn This poem can be found in this anthology: http://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Poems-Everymans-Library-Pocket/dp/1400044235 And here's my friend Trent: http://www....

I'm PISSED today. At Kleenex. It's over between us. I've moved on to Puffs already, but it was a dramatic & painful break-up. So, be patient with my fury in the first few minutes of today's episode. And then, most importantly, listen to Robert Hass fly. "And the days churned by, navigable sorrow." With love, Robyn Buy Sun Under Wood here: http://www.bestdealbuys.us/p/Sun-Under-Wood-51687968.ht...

"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 2:30am New Year’s Eve 1947 in her journal. Buy the Jean Valentine book, "Door in the Mountain..." here: http://www.upne.com/0819567124.html The Patricia Hi...