"'I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it." - Werner Herzog 

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing." - Dale Carnegie 

"People rarely have fun in what they're doing unless they succeed." - Me

"….ENJOY your mothafuckin' YOUTH....

while you GOT IT.

Whatever the fuck you trynna do in yo DREAMS and shit…….
DO IT RIGHT

THE FUCK

NOW.

...while yo body is still witchu….

cause the rest of us would tell you this gettin old shit is

FO THE BIRDS!

That shit DO NOT not let off...

Once it’s on yo ass, 

THAT’S IT!!!" - Katt Williams 

LINKS:

Buy "The Lost Writings" by Franz Kafka (From New Directions aka Nude Erections)

Enjoy Your Youth by Katt Williams (a clip)

French Fry Hustlin' by Katt Williams

The Henry Miller Memorial Library

XOXO, RO

Tonight, I give you a reading from New Directions' Love Poems of Catullus 
and a reiteration of my preference for the CH Sissen translation of Catullus 85.

Art event or not, put it all on a Carr's Table Water Cracker.

And if you have an interest in words, take 2 minutes to try this podcast out: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.

Thank you guys for listening, loving, hating. Always.
 
xo, Robyn

“I think I want, but what is it that I want?
Do I want something? I don’t know." - Patrizia Cavalli

"Kids tend to think of my violence as funny." - Me

LINKS:

Buy Patrizia Cavalli's "My Poems Won't Change the World" HERE.

Check out my American Movie podcast HERE.

Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

And here's my WEBSITE. 

Thank you so much for listening. 

"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/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BE438BB84-0D6E-4AB4-B564-0FDB6B4DB0C3%7D

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

"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/6taNqrjRkfhYa0TzTWvBRf?si=J4zpr7ahRWWNxYd6WHk9SQ

My mix on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/robyn-oneil-we-the-masses/pl.u-2aoq8ZzHGD16EkN

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“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.com

Friends of Hazel Hall: https://www.facebook.com/friendsofhazelhall

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“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: https://al-anon.org

Sign up for a poem-a-day here: https://poets.org

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org
And check out my own shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“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/products/from-the-water-inaudible-by-stephanie-goehring

Listen to me on Glasstire here: https://glasstire.com/2019/10/27/sponsored-podcast-an-interview-with-robyn-oneil/

Listen to Tyler Green’s interview with me on Modern Art Notes! https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-416-robyn-oneil/

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

And check out my own shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“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. But we both have glazed carrots. And possibly a quiet tremble.” - Me

LINKS:

Buy Pablo de Rokha’s “Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry” here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781848613775/architecture-of-dispersed-life-selected-poetry.aspx

Visit Malvern Books: https://malvernbooks.com

Listen to Tyler Green’s interview with me on Modern Art Notes! https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-416-robyn-oneil/

Check out my 20-year survey show at the Modern in Fort Worth here: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115

Get your Robyn O’Neil merch here: https://shop.themodern.org

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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"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://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"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-/5115

Ruby City in San Antonio: https://www.rubycity.org

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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"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.com/culture/shows/bookworm/mary-ruefle-dunce

Buy ME READING STUFF Tees and Sweatshirts here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

More on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Another ME READING STUFF on "Like a New Sun": https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2018-09-20T09_01_21-07_00

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

"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 City: https://www.rubycity.org/events/

My piece at Ruby City: https://www.rubycity.org/artists/robyn-o-neil/

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://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that." - Mary Ruefle

"The End." - Me
______________________________________________

LINKS:

Buy Madness, Rack, and Honey at WAVE BOOKS.

Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

And here's my WEBSITE. 

Thank you so much for listening. 

“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-twombly-gallery

Vic Berger’s Very Best of JIMMY FALLON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MZSmfEeTY&t=554s

My new socks! https://bombas.com/products/womens-performance-ski-snowboard-socks-1?variant=navy-yellow-red

“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: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2016-02-04T09_41_16-08_00

Buy a ME READING STUFF SHIRT here! https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

More on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Buy Bombas! https://bombas.com

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"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-brother-in-amazons-bookstore-orwell-gets-a-rewrite/

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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"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-black-tri-blend-s

Check out The Trevor Project here: https://give.thetrevorproject.org/give/63307/#!/donation/checkout

“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-the-poets

A badly written version of the story of what my UFF BALL is: http://uffball.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-story-of-my-uff-ball.html

Jaron Lanier: http://www.jaronlanier.com/tenarguments.html

Sherry Turkle: http://www.reclaimingconversationbook.com

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

"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 and support The Trevor Project here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

"It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack
of what is found there." - William Carlos Williams

LINKS:

Buy Paterson from New Directions: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/paterson/

If you're interested in my book, here you go: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawings

If you want a ME READING STUFF shirt or sweatshirt, here they are: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

"But that wild sea-hound...unkennelled, called all night all round." - John Freeman

"...my heart flopped over and lay still while he passed (as close as i'm to you yes closer made of nothing except loneliness" -E.E. Cummings

LINKS:

Buy "Solitude" here: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics//catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400044238

Go to the fair! https://artlosangelesfair.com

Check out The Grey Market here: https://news.artnet.com/about/tim-schneider-641

Check out Iva here: https://ivaplungerboy.com/home.html

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt here: 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
Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“Give the poor girl a piece of bread, or a piece of pie. One ton has 2000 pounds. My friend is kind to me; he gave me this new book. The sun, the moon, and the stars are in the sky. Did you hear the cry of the boy who fell in-to the brook? No, sir, I did not. Have you found man-y nuts? No, We have not an-y. The eyes of the hawk are sharp. Sam found a young dead bird on the ground. I will not buy a doll, and give it to Jane on her birth-day. The Son of God said, Suf-fer the lit-the children to come un-to me.” -Mary Ruefle

“So what is this thing I am interested in? My daimon, the imagination, of course. I could give you a long list of things I am not even vaguely interested in, but many of them would insult you for I am sure you are interested in at least some of them.” - Mary Ruefle

LINKS:

Buy Mary Ruefle's On Imagination here: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/on-imagination-mary-ruefle

Buy ZYZZYVA here: https://www.zyzzyva.org/issue/volume-34-3-winter-2018/

Follow David Drury's VERY short story page here: https://www.instagram.com/foldedshorts/?hl=en

Buy Tomas Transtromer's the great enigma here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/

Listen to Nell Carter sing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kONFkc1PwCc

Listen to the Gimme a Break theme song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmnFgKXmi7I

Watch "Shattered Innocence" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CjXEZtgU8

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

ME READING STUFF shirts available here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

"We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole." - Mark Strand

"Have you guys seen the new squeezable sauerkraut?!?" - Me

LINKS:

Purchase Mark Strand's "Selected Poems" HERE.

Check out my Artforum review!

Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE.

See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE.

Get free shipping on all books in my SHOP! (use Coupon Code "BOOK")

Check out Easton's Books in Mount Vernon, Washington HERE.

Learn more about The Trevor Project!

And here's my WEBSITE. 

"....'acceptance’ is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else."

"...there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness."

"...it is permissible to want."

LINKS:

Find out more about Al-Anon here: https://al-anon.org

The "Promises" of Al-Anon: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+promises+of+al+anon&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Buy INFINITE JEST here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-foster-wallace/infinite-jest/9781619696181/

Check out The Great Concavity podcast here: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com

Listen to my appearance on The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com/e/episode-3-with-robyn-oneil/

Anne Boyer's "At Least Two Types of People" here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2015-12-03T10_59_15-08_00

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

ME READING STUFF shirts available here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

"That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all." - Eliot

LINKS:

Buy The Waste Land and Other Poems here: https://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/The-Waste-Land-and-Other-Poems/9780156948777

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt and support The Trevor Project here: 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

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"My habits are simple, my tastes banal." - Nabokov

"When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.” -Sherry Turkle

"I wonder if I have enough Kleenex with lotion to get me through this sinus infection?" - Me

LINKS:

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt and all proceeds go to The Trevor Project! https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Buy "Daily Rituals" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198763/daily-rituals-by-mason-currey/9780307273604/

Read Anne Carson's "Shade" piece here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/each-day-unexpected-salvation-john-cage

Listen to her UCLA lecture here: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2016/10/anne-carson/

Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313732/reclaiming-conversation-by-sherry-turkle/9780143109792/

Info on my upcoming NYC show here: http://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/upcoming

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am not only for myself, what am I? And if not now – – when? -Hillel

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” - Virginia Woolf

“I wish you secure banisters and poison-free aspirin.” - Me

LINKS:

Buy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396

Buy "Complete Poems" by Vasko Popa here: https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/vasko-popa-complete-poems-1953-1987

Buy my book "20 Years of Drawings" here: https://www.amazon.com/Robyn-ONeil-20-Years-Drawings/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543699086&sr=8-1&keywords=Robyn+o%27neil

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Get a ME READING STUFF t-shirt and support the vital LGBTQ organization The Trevor Project here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Listen to "I'm Going To Make A Cake" by Philip Glass here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfpuHdyYAi8

My coffee already turned cold and I say thank you.
My body can't handle much more and I say thank you.
My stomach hurts and I say thank you.
People I didn't expect to hear from reach out and I say thank you.
I am uncomfortable and I say thank you.
I will be with my 4-person family and nobody else for Thanksgiving for the first time maybe ever, and I am saying thank you.
I will crochet on the plane and I am saying thank you with every stitch and every incorrect move.
I will have an aisle seat and I say thank you.
Even as every passenger's crotch passes my line of sight on their way to the bathroom, I will say thank you thank you thank you. I didn't want to see your crotch, but thank you.

LINKS:

Buy "The Winged Energy of Delight" by Robert Bly here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060575861/the-winged-energy-of-delight/

Buy "Migration" by W.S. Merwin here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7BE438BB84-0D6E-4AB4-B564-0FDB6B4DB0C3%7D

Buy a ME READING STUFF t-shirt or sweatshirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Learn more about The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/#sm.0001e7yc1j1bu3dpyz1gjgtzawrhx

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.” -Eileen Myles

LINKS:

Buy "I Must Be Living Twice" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062389084/i-must-be-living-twice/

Listen to Eileen Myles on Bookworm from KCRW here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062389084/i-must-be-living-twice/

Buy a ME READING STUFF T-Shirt or Sweatshirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

Support The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/about/#sm.00000zms3d419g3ezex4idbtuh7n4

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“Everything war and I can’t get enough of it - and still it almost drives me crazy.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

“I like watching old men walk across streets. - Me

LINKS:

Buy “My Faraway One” here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300166309/my-faraway-one

Buy a ME READING STUFF t-shirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

More on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/about/#sm.00000zms3d419g3ezex4idbtuh7n4

My favorite Youtube Channel “BeatleBabe”: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLSyetOa-ut3483mU9GQfyQ

My best friend Eric: https://twitter.com/ChopStarNation

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

"Moonlight in the kitchen is a sign of God." - Anne Carson

"The browning of tater tots in a barely-functioning oven is a sign of God." - Robyn O'Neil


LINKS:

Buy a ME READING STUFF shirt & support The Trevor Project!: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

Buy Anne Carson's Glass, Irony & God here: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/anne-carson/#glass-irony-and-god

Buy The Horse Has Six Legs here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legs

Buy Claudia Rankine's Citizen here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen

Buy Mary Ruefle's Most of It here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen

Buy Melody Beattie's Codependent No More here: http://melodybeattie.com/books/codependent-no-stop-controlling-others-start-caring/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

We finally have ME READING STUFF shirts & sweatshirts now!!! And proceeds go to The Trevor Project! And they're VERY soft. Soft clothes are good. What else is good? Blankets. Pets with fur. Salads. Walks. Getting older. Rolling with it. Stretching. One day at a time. Sleepovers. Magazines. Crocheting. Going to sleep. Goodnight.

LINKS:

ME READING STUFF SHIRTS!!! https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff

Buy "Music by Philip Glass" here: https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/MUSIC-PHILIP-GLASS-Harper-Row/526474547/bd

More on Christopher Knowles here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Knowles

The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/about/#sm.00000d0qe9aog8d0vzdh7iaayab9p

Zum Laundry Stuff: https://www.indigowild.com/home-cleaning/zum-clean-laundry-soap.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"Such fun waking up though! Such fun too if you don't! Keep dying! Keep writing it down!" - C.K. Williams

"Message received." - Me

LINKS:

Buy "Writers Writing Dying" by C.K. Williams HERE.

Buy "Rest" by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang HERE.

Sign up for my newsletter HERE.

Check out my show at Inman Gallery HERE. 

...and he chased me without end.

LINKS:

Buy "I Remember Nightfall" here: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=8388607

Support Malvern Books in Austin: http://malvernbooks.com

The Great Stephanie Goehring: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring

My show in Kalamazoo: https://wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/archive/2018-19/robyn-oneil.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Sorry about the blanket statement on Californians. When I get back to the middle of the country, I turn a bit hostile towards the kindness level on the coasts. I like people pleasant. Kill me.

I met the sweetest woman named Sandy on a plane yesterday. She told me she lost her husband (to a heart attack), daughter (to an overdose), and granddaughter (to suicide). All in 2 years. She bought herself a beach cruiser bike in pink (because her daughter and granddaughter love pink) and she's going to ride it around her neighborhood every evening this Fall.

LINKS:

Buy "LIKE A NEW SUN: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry" here: http://www.phonememedia.org/like-a-new-sun/

In Austin, head to Malvern Books: http://malvernbooks.com

Check out updates from Stephanie Goehring here: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring?lang=en

Me in Kalamazoo: https://wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/visitingartists/archive/2018-19/oneil.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"I am a bandit myself because I kill my brain." - Vaslav Nijinsky

LINKS:

Buy The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/48bdm7sz9780252073625.html

Follow bansee_beats here: https://www.instagram.com/banshee_beats/

or here: https://twitter.com/banshee_beats

Follow Dasi B studio here: https://www.instagram.com/dasibstudio/

Follow Erica who told the story about her grandparents’ drivers licenses here: https://www.instagram.com/hairica_styles/

or here: https://twitter.com/ericunnt

I see long stemmed roses, but only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

LINKS:

Buy The Living Mountain here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-living-mountain-nan-shepherd/1014931494/2675516716974?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Marketplace+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP211671&gclid=CjwKCAjwzqPcBRAnEiwAzKRgS21MHZNQ3wX52PLVjnRQMpN5_6N7jwdLAOjI9ud4IsGgCc8GhyGl8RoC2ZsQAvD_BwE

Check out Tyler Bright Hilton's work here: https://www.tylerbrighthilton.com

Here's the afghan from Roseanne: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/31/16/4AB920C400000578-5565053-image-m-3_1522510597687.jpg

Come to my reading this Sunday afternoon. Facebook info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/299473877522354/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Angry Showers.
Me and the strangers in the bubble bath aisle.
Angry Showers, Sad Baths.

LINKS:

Buy Harold Bloom’s "How to Read and Why” here: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Read-and-Why/Harold-Bloom/9780684859071

LA, I’m ready MY OWN WRITING! BE THERE! Sept 2nd, 3pm: http://www.thepophop.com

Michigan, let’s do this:
https://wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/archive/2018-19/robyn-oneil.html

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Be good, be you. You be you, they be they.

LINKS:

Buy Pablo Neruda's The Yellow Heart here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B789172C5-292C-43C6-B03F-79F19678A5EF%7D

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"It's true, hope can cause pain." - Joanne Kyger

"I one time met an Australian person online and I said something about liking chips and dips and they go 'Oh, I've heard that people eat dip. What is dip?'" -Me

"Violence is not a mystery. Or if it is, the solution is so much bigger than just finding out who did it. Whenever there’s a mass shooting, people want to know why. We want to have a motive, and then when we get the motive, it’s always incredibly dissatisfying — because there’s nothing that could justify shooting a bunch of people, and that’s also true of killing anyone." - Alice Bolin

LINKS:

Buy Kyger's ON TIME here: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100025950

Buy Alice Bolin's DEAD GIRLS here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062657145/dead-girls/

Follow Alice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alicebolin?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Buy Jared Stanley's EARS: http://nightboat.org/title/ears

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Dream Rituals: constant food prep, daily baths, daily reading for 24 hours a day, daily taking walks at least 3 hours a day (slowly), effortlessly cleaning, making bookmarks for friends and family with their favorite people on them, stretching at least 30 minutes twice a day, taking a nap without guilt, etc. etc. etc.

LINKS:

My Seattle show: http://season.cz/exhibit/

Buy Donald Hall's White Apples and the Taste of Stone: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/white-apples-and-the-taste-of-stone-donald-hall/1100303386?ean=9780618919994&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP211455&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-JvaBRDGARIsAFjqkkqODENGPBa2_C6tVcbDlDLgIncUF-hhsAjKyXUzxvT1RJr88stqHYwaAq7eEALw_wcB

Buy Anne Boyer's new book here: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=558

Buy Daily Rituals by Mason Currey here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198763/daily-rituals-by-mason-currey/9780307273604/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"I like no." -Anne Boyer
"I like no." -Robyn O'Neil

"History is full of people who just didn't." - Anne Boyer
"Kill your rapists." -Robyn O'Neil

LINKS:

Buy A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer: https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=558

Buy Garments Against Women: https://ahsahtapress.org/product/boyer-garments/

Anne Boyer's Website: http://www.anneboyer.com

Anne Boyer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anne_boyer

Jason Prue: https://jasonpreu.com

My show here in LA at Steve Turner Gallery: http://steveturner.la/exhibition/through-line-drawing-weaving-by-18-artists

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

I lied about the sunset.

LINKS:

Koko's poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=FVuNTiqHys0

Adrienne Butler: https://www.adriennerbutler.com

Won't You Be My Neighbor documentary trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwktRDG_aQ

"Jeff, roommate: Left my stuff all over the house; left the fridge a mess.
Mary, friend: Promised to make her a clock. Made it, but never gave it to her." -Workaholics Anonymous

"Monica, Starbucks boss: Pretended I got a "gig" in Hollywood to be killed off in a horror movie. Never returned to job.
Peter, Gallery Owner: Lied during a studio visit about how long I'd lived in California for no reason at all. I added ten years to the actual total."  - Me

LINKS:

Purchase any of the Workaholics Anonymous. books mentioned in this episode on the WORKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS WEBSITE.

Visit my website HERE.

Visit my shop HERE.

I wrote a whole awesome thing and then my computer broke down (meaning I lost it) so I don't feel like writing anything again. But basically, sorry I keep talking about other people's urine.

LINKS:

Buy Mark Strand's Almost Invisible here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215194/almost-invisible-by-mark-strand/9780375712180/

Upcoming show at Steve Turner: http://steveturner.la/exhibition/through-line-drawing-weaving-by-18-artists

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

THE SHADE I WITNESS ON MY DUSK-TIME WALKS, WATCHING WINDOWS: shade made by a man's thumb on a remote control, open car door shade, garage door closing shade, a dog's tennis ball on grass shade, one crumpled napkin on a table shade, kid on the corner of a couch shade, Larry's shade.

LINKS:

Link to this poem in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/each-day-unexpected-salvation-john-cage

Link to buy FLOAT: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532529/float-by-anne-carson/9781101946848/

Link to Anne Carson's reading & performance at UCLA's The Hammer: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2016/10/anne-carson/

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Is the world populated by children? Have you had any? If so, why? If not, why? Do you suck on adult bottles? Do I? Can't wait to read that essay on happiness.

LINKS:

Buy “Nobody’s Home” by Dubravka Ugresic (Essays) here: https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/nobodys-home

Previous Dubravka Ugresic episode:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2018-03-22T21_55_49-07_00

Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en