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"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 my site here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Watch the American Girl Movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US37aUmzEL...

"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:...

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 is never recalled when the sleeper awakes" - Mark Strand "The book is a book." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS: THE ROBYN O'NEIL SHOP: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Buy Mark Strand's Colle...

“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 soft soft animal here: https://www.jellycat.com/us/softto...

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 had six hands and six feet and wings He was red and His strange red cattle excited envy Herakles came and Killed him for his cattle The dog too -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red LINKS: B...

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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:...

"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 spoons." - T.S. Eliot "You never said a word to me about what passed between us." - Elliott Smith "I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precisio...

"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 STUFF t-shirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/produc...

"...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 makes me want to actually die." - Me LINKS: Buy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/tsol-dictionary/ Check out my new exhibition...

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 Handwr...

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 a ME READING STUFF shirt here:...

"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....

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

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 P.S. 61 in Manhattan. I read you "A Colorful Dream" by Thomas Rogaski (3rd grade), "That's Odd" by Joel London, (5th grade), and "My Only Lover Boy" by Concepcion Dipin...

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 30-day challenge here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLui6...

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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 LINKS: More on Damien here: http://damienjurado.com AND LISTEN TO THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d1eobg9QY W.S. Merwin - Thanks: More on Damien here: http://damienjurado.com Me on Twitter: https://t...

"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 sewing clothes for the moon." -Mary Ruefle LINKS: More on Damien here: http://damienjurado.com AND LISTEN TO THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d1eobg9QY Buy Trances of the Blast by Mary Ruefle her...

"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 WEAR: https://imbodhi.co/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4KD0BRBUEiwA7MFNTfQLn_vbX3bNp4IyvVkLEr-sd3jvEue...

"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 Water [Inaudible] here...and REALLY....DO IT: https://hostpublications.com/products/from-the-water-inaudible-by-stephanie-goehring Please consider buying some of the oth...

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/R...

"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...

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 what we talk about when we talk about fendi bags what we talk about when we talk about love. And Kleenex. And exhaustion. I'm sorry I'm so tired and probably REALLY REA...