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Love letters to the people of the world. Sincerely, Robyn O'Neil
Episodes
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
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“If I believe in anythin...
"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
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"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
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Follow me on Instagram
Buy my book 20 YEARS OF DRAWINGS
Follow Anne J. Regan on Instagram
Th...
"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:
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My newsletter signup at the bottom of MY WEBSITE.
My FIRST COMIC!
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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
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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 sc...
"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, ...
"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
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Join Grig's Poetry Party
Listen/Watch to Anne C...
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
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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...
"My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines." - Agnes Martin
"Oh really, bitch? I don't think so!" - My Body
LINKS:
Learn more about artist Agnes Martin HERE.
Buy "On Beauty" by Agnes Martin through PACE.
Buy "Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words" on INDIEBOUND.
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov
"I love ruled paper." - Me
LINKS:
Buy The Best American Essays of The Century
Buy Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder
Learn more about my drawing HELL
See James Ensor in front of Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 as an...
Dear You,
We last spoke in January and I've missed you; I've missed this. A lot has happened. A lot has not. Let's pick back up where we left off, but let's make it better and more loving this time. Let's not let the hoards of negatives overshadow the rest — the ever-present glimmerings of light. I simply can't anymore. I woke up different after that night. I even had pink cheeks for the first time in ages, accordin...
"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
"I barely know what a uterus is for God's sake." - Me
LINKS:
Buy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" HERE.
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"Help! I'm David from Sesame Street, and they're trying to kill me!" - Northern Calloway
"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." - Zora Neale Hurston
LINKS:
The Wikipedia article on Northern Calloway
My Substack
Damien Jurado's record label - Maraqopa
Praying for apathy, deciding towards easy.
Love, Robyn
LINKS:
Buy Joshua Rivkin's Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly
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Here is my website.
The Cy Twombly Gallery
Robert Rauschenberg
Jasper Johns
Henry Darger
"The people who have made me feel the worst were always my best friends." -Detective Olivia Benson
"I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show." - Ice-T
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Watch the Driver 23 / Atlas Moth Trailer
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The NBC article on Steve Zirnkilton
Listen to the Steve Zirnkilton Law...
Dear Boss,
I am sick.
Love, Robyn
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