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"Cause when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom.” - Laurie Anderson "Take care of y’all’s mentals." -Marshawn Lynch "Please god no more awarenesses.” - Me LINKS: Check out my show in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115 Get stickers, shirts...

“The people you really like a lot will disappear” - Mary Ruefle But couch studios make life better. And anything that makes it better is good. A chili dog. A note. A find. A soft towel. Comfortably sitting. Watching a dog breathe. Obsessions felt but controlled. Closing your eyes. LINKS: Buy Mary Ruefle’s Dunce here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce?_pos=1&_sid=229cf5ba1&_ss=r Buy...

"How many millennia will I need to tear my inner Great Wall down?" - Blaga Dimitrova "Should I make Rosarita refried bean tacos tonight?" - Me LINKS: Buy Scars here: http://www.ivypressprinceton.com/book3.html Check out the Wendy's training videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXeFPpPJeI And here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-JBFXh2IU My show of textiles in Chicago: http://westernex...

"And like the contours of the Judean mountains, we also won't find a resting-place." - Yehuda Amichai "And like every exhausted Nebraskan woman, I beg that you plant my ashes under a loose tile near the distilled water at Kroger in Kingwood, Texas. And say hello to Todd." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS: Buy Yehuda Amichai's Selected Poetry here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520275836/the-selected-poetry...

"...I respect extravagant expression more than reserved." -C.D. Wright "I have seven years of saying what I mean, meaning what I say, and not being mean when I say it." - Me LINKS: Buy "The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All" here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/the-poet-the-lio...

What is your favorite rice dish and will you make it for me? Who's Jimmy? Will she murder her husband? Will I eat the entire bag tonight? Will I also eat ice cream? Will I organize the corner of the room. And does it even matter? LINKS: Buy "The Lottery and Other Stories" by Shirley Jackson here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374529536 Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Wo...

I love you, Alaska! Find your Peace. Wash your hands. Goodnight. LINKS: Buy Houses and Travellers here: https://www.ebay.com/i/264275300363?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=264275300363&targetid=539174338275&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9033353&poi=&campaignid=6470544942&mkgroupid=76670849479&rlsatarget=pla-539174...

"Blame me if I'm not at loud parties." - Gulnar Salykbay "Please never invite me to a party." - Me Hello my friends and enemies! Today I'm super happy to share with you this amazing book I found at my local bookstore. It is the POETRY edition of "Contemporary Kazakh Literature" and this is the first time any of these hundreds of poems have been translated to English. And holy shit they're GOOD. Th...

"I hated childhood I hate adulthood And I love being alive." - Mary Ruefle Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who hates and/or loves anything at all. I love you guys. And I need you. And I need this. LINKS: Buy Mary Ruefle's TRANCES OF THE BLAST here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/trances-of-the-blast Buy W.S. Merwin's "Migration: New and Selected Poems" here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pag...

"I heard screaming. I'm eating my McDonald's." - Charles Ramsey "I heard screaming. I'm eating my McDonalds." - Me LINKS: Interview with American hero Charles Ramsey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLSI3oyqhs Remix by schmoyoho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZcRU0Op5P4 The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com My mix on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6taNqrjRkfhYa0Tz...

“there are no more words, from now on all talk will take place with the voices stones and trees have.” -Rolf Jacobsen “Today I am finally the person I’ve been trying to be my entire life.” - Me LINKS: Buy Rolf Jacobsen’s The Roads Have Come to an End Now here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={81C7BCEC-4F3A-45A6-92C0-143511DD0B22} The F*ck It Diet: https://thefuckitdiet.c...

“I am less of myself and more of the sun; The beat of life is wearing me To an incomplete oblivion,” - Hazel Hall "I'm 42 years old and upset that someone unfriended me on Facebook." - Me LINKS: Buy Hazel Hall’s Selected Poetry here: https://ahsahtapress.org/book/hazel-hall/ Buy Otis McDonald’s new album here: http://www.otismacmusic.com If you love an alcoholic/addict OR if things just bother you...

“should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?” Mary Ruefle “I love looking at your plate.” - Me LINKS: Buy Mary Ruefle's “Dunce” here: https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce Buy The Blind Plain by Igor Barreto here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781935635833/the-blind-plain.aspx Buy Stephanie Goehring’s “from The Water [Inaudible]” here: https://hostpublications.com/produc...

“I grab a tomato, I acquire the old coin of autumn, I take in a movie, I’m arranging that kiss and that verse that nested in those immense eyelashes.” - Pablo de Rokha “I pretend to be June Cleaver, but a June with COPS hair and an old Dallas t-shirt. The word “Dallas" written in fluorescent green spray paint letters. And some ill-fitting eggplant colored corduroys from Target. A regretful buy. Bu...

"I'm not an animal anymore." - Mike Tyson "I like the way you ate lunch today." - Me LINKS: Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk here: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passion My upcoming 20-year survey show: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115 Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https:...

"My mother gave simple advice to all. Do not grow up to become a baby." - Mary Ruefle "I make perfect nachos." -Me LINKS: Buy Mary Ruefle's Dunce at Wave Poetry: https://www.wavepoetry.com/collections/new/products/dunce The Story of My Uff Ball (not well-written): http://uffball.blogspot.com My upcoming 20-year survey show: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5...

"Hope wears a strange raincoat and straps a gun inside.” - Mary Ruefle "Goodnight, sweetheart." - Me LINKS: Check out "Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry" here: http://www.phonememedia.org/like-a-new-sun Anne Boyer's new book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374279349 Mary Ruefle's new book "Dunce": https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunce Mary Ruefle on Bookworm: https://www.kcrw.c...

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me." -Mark Strand "The answer is chicken nuggets." - Me LINKS: Buy Mark Strand's Dark Harbor here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/174449/dark-harbor-by-mark-strand/9780679752790/ Buy Mark Strand's Collected Poems here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236122/collected-poems-by-mark-strand/9780804170857/ Ruby...

“Yes, you can serve me up as salami!” - Aristophanes “If you fall, I’ll be there. – Carpet “You are not going to escape my love.” - Me LINKS: World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse From Antiquity To Our Time here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203921.World_Poetry Stendhal Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome Cy Twombly Gallery: https://www.menil.org/bookstore/products/cy-tw...

“We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.” - Anne Waldman “I just bought some feta cheese.” - Me LINKS: Buy Great American Prose Poems here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Great-American-Prose-Poems/David-Lehman/9780743243506 Come see me talk at The Menil! https://www.menil.org/events/3102-artist-talk-robyn-o-neil ME READING STUFF episode about Chögyam Trungpa: ht...

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living this is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis, Priority "Don't you wish you just didn't have a brain sometimes? I do." - Me LINKS: Buy The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396 Learn more about this Amazon bullshit here: https://www.enmnews.com/2019/08/19/paging-big-broth...

“My life is great. And it still sucks.” - Me LINKS: Check out THE WHITE PONY: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry here: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_White_Pony.html?id=Pk8SAAAAYAAJ Buy ME READING STUFF shirts and support The Trevor Project: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil...

"Somewhere out there the world must have an end." -Wislawa Szymborska "My sink smells gross." - Me LINKS: Buy "Here" here (haha!): https://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Here/9780547592091 PLEASE buy a ME READING STUFF tee or sweatshirt! Why? A) They're soft B) The money goes to an important cause. Do that here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-blac...

“When you’re in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics…and one by one if you’re really painting, they walk out. And if you’re really painting YOU walk out.” -Philip Guston remembering something he thought John Cage said to him. LINKS: Buy this book here: https://www.hauserwirth.com/publications/9467-philip-guston-th...

"The beauty of the world is that it holds onto you; at every moment it is touching every inch of your body." - Cole Swensen "I like watching YouTube." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS: Buy "Noon" here: http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Cole-Swensen-Noon-&BookID=123 Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Buy ME READING STUFF shirts a...