Me Reading Stuff

"I am raising a fly with wings of gold" - Songs from the Quechua"I want to be on The Young and the Restless." - MeLINKS:Buy "Looking for Poetry, Translations by Mark Strand: here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375709883?aff=penguinrandomCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"Garbage collectors pick up 6,424 pounds of your trash a year." - Spike Carlsen "Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain." - Robert Gary LeeLINKS:Buy Spike Carlsen's "A Walk Around the Block" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-walk-around-the-block-spike-carlsen?variant=33021712793634Check out Reader's Digest here: https://www.rd.comIf you're worried about someone else's drinking: https://al-anon.orgCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"We are at a party that doesn't love us." - Tomas Tranströmer"We sure the fuck are." - MeLINKS:Buy Tomas Tranströmer's "The Great Enigma" here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Recommendation Corner: rest, relaxation, television, couch time, fun foods, salads, the right amount of water, markers, stamp collecting, sticker collecting, sleep schedule, walking, isolating. Not Recommended: overuse of smartphone, beating yourself up, expecting, ignoring your body, snapping, irregular bathing, forgetting to eat, isolating.LINKS:Buy Claudia Rankine's Plot here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/plot/Buy Great American Prose Poems here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Great-American-Prose-Poems/David-Lehman/9780743243506Check out my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopFollow me on Instagram (and be there for the Live event on Monday the 16th): https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"I've been stuck with a smelly, actively decaying body that I never asked for and am constantly on the receiving end of confusing, overwhelming messages for how to properly care for and feed it." - Samantha Irby"What she said." - MeLINKS:Buy Samantha Irby's books here: https://www.booksoup.com/search/site/samantha%20irbyCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Shade I've Dealt With Today: Shade inside my trash can full of dark chocolate wrappers, shade in my new lip balm box, on whale skin scars, shade inside my own stomach, shade in between my lips and those blankets, fuzzy shade forcing its way out from under my dying dill plant, shade under my mouth on the phone, shade under a printout I made of Louise Lasser, shade beneath lost items. LINKS:Check out my show at Moskowitz Bayse Gallery in Los Angeles: http://www.moskowitzbayse.comCheck out the profile of my life in the studio during the pandemic: https://inglettgallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/My shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

"Hubbard explained to his agent that he ultimately decided to withdraw the book from publication because the first six people who read it were so shattered by the revelations that they had lost their minds. The last time he showed Excalibur to a publisher, he said, the reader brought the manuscript into the room, set it on the publisher's desk, then jumped out the window of the skyscraper." - Lawrence WrightLINKS:Buy "Going Clear" by Lawrence Wright here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212925/going-clear-by-lawrence-wright/Get tickets for Damien's show here: https://damienjurado.comCheck out my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"My head is as big as the world. A river of the color red and real shiny." - Arnaldo Gomez"I bought myself a glazed donut." - MeLINKS:Buy "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wishes-lies-and-dreams-kenneth-kochron-padgett?variant=32131028549666Email me your Swan of Bees poem here: mereadingstuff@icloud.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Who's with me sitting alone at a moonlit window? ... Just this amazing thing, all grief and worry, that I am. My very own grief and worry: amazing!" -Li Ch'ing-chaoLINKS:Buy Classical Chinese Poetry here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531904Check out my shop and use "SPRING" in the BOOKS section for 25% off: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living thing is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis "A sure sign that someone's about to have a full mental breakdown is when they start obsessively juicing." - MeLINKS:Buy "The Collected Stories" by Lydia Davis here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396Shop my stuff here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopListen to Damien Jurado's new single here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_fZ2r4cj0Check out Damien's shop here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.comThe Dash Rapid Egg Cooker!: https://bydash.com/products/rapid-egg-cookerMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket." - Charles Simic"I like watching people listen." - MeLINKS:Buy Charles Simic's "The Horse Has Six Legs" here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legsMy shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work." - Susan Lucci"Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob." - David Charvet LINKS:Lifetime Movie Club: https://www.lifetimemovieclub.comMy shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms." - Werner HerzogLINKS:Buy The School of Life Dictionary: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/us/tsol-dictionary/My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Form your letters slowly and well: making things well is more important than making them." - Antonio Machado"Brie is a 90's cheese. I'm going to go buy some right now." - MeLINKS:Buy The Winged Energy of Delight by Robert Bly here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-winged-energy-of-delight-robert-bly?variant=32130617704482Check out Devon from Young and the Restless here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1CHo3xJ3UCheck out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

LINKS:Find The Paris Review Interviews volumes here: https://store.theparisreview.org/products/the-paris-review-interviews-iv?variant=54568232Check out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMy show in Toledo: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/telling-stories-resilience-and-struggle-contemporary-narrative-drawingMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Light is therefore color, and shadow the privation of it." - J.M.W. Turner, 1818"Have you ever had a black eye? Have you ever had pink eye?" - Me, 2021LINKS:Sign up for my "World-Making" workshop! https://www.toledomuseum.org/education/classesCheck out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMy show in Toledo: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/telling-stories-resilience-and-struggle-contemporary-narrative-drawingMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg LINKS:Watch the trailer for David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrOJZEdV_88More on the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172584/Stickers! Crocheted Mobiles! Books! Here is my shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopFollow me on instagram to be a part of Friday's Q&A! https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/More on Damien here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.com

"The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army." -Solnit"They say my sista was rolled up in a red carpet. Ok, come on nah. Cause when they picked her body up, parts of her flesh was on the ground birds was eatin my sista's face.” - a Women on Murder In the Bayou "I'm still mad about that chicken caesar wrap." - MeLINKS:Buy Rebecca Solnit's "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/293600/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-by-rebecca-solnit/Visit my shop and enjoy 10% off of my monograph now: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMy show in Toledo: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/telling-stories-resilience-and-struggle-contemporary-narrative-drawingMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Now that I live in the Trojan Horse, I feel so much more at ease." - Pavel Šrut"Please God, somebody from Mexico be mad about chicken caesar wraps with me." - MeLINKS:Buy "Worm-Eaten Time" here: https://www.czechlit.cz/en/book/worm-eaten-time-en/Buy my book here: https://www.robynoneil.com/booksMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering." - Moshe Ibn EzraLINKS: Buy "The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poemBuy my book here: https://www.robynoneil.com/booksWatch Eliot Weinberger here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/weinberger/1Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil