ME READING STUFF
This is simply me reading stuff. Poems, essays, letters, recipes, and whatever else feels alive in the moment — mixed with my own rambling thoughts, laughter, and honest reflections on life, art, and everything in between. Think of it as having lunch with a good friend: warm, unfiltered, and admittedly a little bit strange. A space where we can escape together with books, encourage each other, and feel a little less alone. Sincerely, Robyn O’Neil
Episodes
"He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"I'm ready to take over the airwaves." ~Me, The Great Delusion
LINKS
+Josh Garvelink's SUBSTACK and INSTAGRAM
+My SHOP
+My WEBSITE
+My INSTAGRAM
+My SUBSTACK
Thank you to anyone reading this. I so appreciat...
Thanking Mediocre Nurses, A Play by Robyn O'Neil
ACT 1: Transparency about a failing enterprise
ACT 2: Two questions and an answer
ACT 3: Keep Dying, Keep Writing it Down
ACT 4: Get Quiet
LINKS
+Buy C.K. Williams' Writers Writing Dying
+Buy The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
+My SHOP
+My WEBSITE
+My INSTAGRAM
+My SUBSTACK
“We are amazing beings. We are neighbors of fire.” - Anne Carson
Continuing to reread from some of ME READING STUFF's top rated books/writers, we celebrate living legend Anne Carson and Autobiography of Red, yet again. This is the 20th episode dedicated to Anne Carson, and it certainly won't be the last.
Other topics include: hot dogs, stuffers, vacuuming, and my "nine months in Colombia".
With lov...
This week, we return to everyone's favorite poetry book, Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk byPasha Mallaand Jeff Parker.
In Metta World Peace's poem, he discusses the difference between elbow and shell pasta.
Anna Kournikova's poem talks about how many boyfriends she’s gonna kiss.
And we end with an impromptu reading of the lyrics of superstar and friend to the show Cécile McLorin Salvant ❤️<...
🎙️ The 11th Anniversary of ME READING STUFF 🎂
Dear listener,
Well, we've officially been kicking it for ELEVEN YEARS. Through vasectomies, divorce, mystery illnesses, breakdowns, fevers, estrangement, Covid, moves, near-death experiences, remarriage, Las Vegas hotel rooms, heart surgeries, parenthood, hauntings, and meetings with the ©️Kleenex company.
Think of how much water we've drunk since 2015. I wonde...
This week marks the return to THROWING BOOKS ACROSS THE ROOM!!!! So exciting.
Dionne Brand's "Islands Vanish" really had me feeling all sorts of things. It was a pleasure to read it to you.
I extend appreciation to her for "hunting for slave castles with a pencil for explosives." Not many hunt so rigorously. It's shattering.
This episode also includes an impassioned Recommendation Corner, a Mini Question C...
This week, I read to you from a 1992 poetry anthology called The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman and Michael Meade. Wendell Berry's poem "Ripening" leads to a discussion about death and altar-building. I also kick a few people out of the podcast 😲, and bemoan my exhaustion levels.
Thank you for listening - I love you guys❣️
LINKS:
Buy The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
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"I know how furiously your heart is beating." ~Wallace Stevens, The Gray Room
"The tense American nerve relaxed. I lived
with a gray quietness that let the mind
grow inward like a root." ~Paul Engle
LINKS:
Taschen's The Book of Symbols
My Website
My Shop
My Substack
My Instagram
On today's episode, I read from a MASSIVE birthday gift, A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925 – 2025), Edited by Kevin Young. The readings are:
- Charles Simic's "This Morning"
- Anne Carson's "Epithalamium NYC"
LINKS
Buy A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker
MY NEW WEBSITE
Check out my friend Jack's website!
My Instagram
My Substack
“If I ...
"I love to walk but I can't
I love to swim but I can't
I love to sit in the sun but I can't
I love to smell the flowers but I can't
I love to play tennis but I can't
I love to water-ski but I can't"
~Andy Warhol
"Lime flavored sparkling waters taste like Fruity Pebbles." ~Me
LINKS:
Buy The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Check out my Instagram
Check out my Substack
Check out my Website (FINALL...
"I enjoy people best if I can be alone much of the time." – Octavia Butler
"Talk is a privilege and one must deny oneself that privilege." – Martha Graham
"I love saying "refrigerator."" – Me
LINKS
Pick up Mason Currey's Daily Ritual Books
Follow Mason Currey's Substack
Follow me on Instagram
Buy my book 20 YEARS OF DRAWINGS
Follow Anne J. Regan on Instagram<...
"Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them." ~Laurie Anderson
"Do you clean yourself well?" ~Me
LINKS:
Listen/Watch Laurie Anderson's O Superman
My new Substack Post
My newsletter signup at the bottom of MY WEBSITE.
My FIRST COMIC!
My IN...
Today's anonymous poem was found in my library book about Medieval Art and was dated Feb 7, 1958! How exciting is that?!?
I also answer some listener questions & ask you some of my own in everyone's favorite segment - Question Corner.
I wish you well, I hope you can gain acceptance of disappointment, and we shall find peace.
With love, Robby
LINKS:
My Instagram
My Youtube
Today, I explain how I use my fists to understand the days in a month. I regret (again) not learning Greek or its myths. We read Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg. We celebrate taking walks, aggressively. And something about Doritos.
LINKS:
Buy The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem HERE.
Buy Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass HERE.
Check out BLURRING BOOKS!
Watch the Walt Whitman scene in No...
"I am one who does not think that the Earth was made for us. I think that we are first to last strangers on it, and that it takes us a good first half of our lives just to get used to gravity. That it's not easy." -Michael Silverblatt
LINKS:
Visit the Bookworm ARCHIVES.
Buy David Markson books on INDIEBOUND.
Watch Michael Silverblatt at Cornell HERE.
Listen to David Markson on Bookworm.
"I think mostly about clothes, sex, food, and seasonal variations. I have done so much to be ordinary and made a record of this: first I was born, next I was a child, then I learned things and did things and loved and had those who loved me and often felt alone. My body was sometimes well, then sometimes unwell. I got nearer to death, as did you." -Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women
"I think mostly about my health, food, the...
"Twisting it in the right hand - I love another." via The Public Domain Review
"Donna Logan felt badly for her younger sister, Katie, ,who was suffering from acne." via The Bold and the Beautiful: 10th Anniversary Celebration
LINKS
Visit The Public Domain Review
Watch The Bold and the Beautiful
My Instagram
My Substack
Join Grig's Poetry Party
Listen/Watch to Anne Carso...
Tonight, we have a Recommendation Corner (it's been a while!), a return to Vasko Popa, praise for Valentine's Day whether you like it or not, and some new sound clips 🖤
And I'll miss you forever, Billy. I'm devestated.
Love, Robyn
p.s. can you believe I'm back for a 3rd week in a row? I can't!
LINKS
Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Works
My Instagram
My Substack
My Website
If you grew up in the 70s and 80s like me, you certainly know Geri Jewell. If you don't know the full breadth of her career, you will for sure know "Cousin Geri", Blair Warner's comedian cousin with cerebral palsy from The Facts of Life. I have adored her from the first moment I saw her on TV, and recently read her 2011 autobiography I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond. In this episode,...
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