Me Reading Stuff

"I'm not an animal anymore." - Mike Tyson "I like the way you ate lunch today." - MeLINKS:Buy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk here: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/erratic-fire-erratic-passionMy upcoming 20-year survey show: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115Buy 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-sMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe 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." -MeLINKS:Buy Mary Ruefle's Dunce at Wave Poetry:https://www.wavepoetry.com/collections/new/products/dunceThe Story of My Uff Ball (not well-written): http://uffball.blogspot.comMy upcoming 20-year survey show: https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/Upcoming/Robyn-ONeil-WE-THE-MASSES-/5115Ruby City in San Antonio: https://www.rubycity.orgBuy 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-sMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"Hope wears a strange raincoatand straps a gun inside.” - Mary Ruefle"Goodnight, sweetheart." - MeLINKS:Check out "Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry" here: http://www.phonememedia.org/like-a-new-sunAnne Boyer's new book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374279349Mary Ruefle's new book "Dunce": https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/dunceMary Ruefle on Bookworm: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/mary-ruefle-dunceBuy ME READING STUFF Tees and Sweatshirts here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/1948499/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-sMore on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.orgAnother ME READING STUFF on "Like a New Sun": https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mereadingstuff/episodes/2018-09-20T09_01_21-07_00Me 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." - MeLINKS: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-/5115Buy 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-sMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“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_PoetryStendhal Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndromeCy Twombly Gallery: https://www.menil.org/bookstore/products/cy-twombly-galleryVic Berger’s Very Best of JIMMY FALLON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MZSmfEeTY&t=554sMy 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.” - MeLINKS:Buy Great American Prose Poems here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Great-American-Prose-Poems/David-Lehman/9780743243506Come see me talk at The Menil! https://www.menil.org/events/3102-artist-talk-robyn-o-neilME 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-sMore on The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.orgBuy Bombas! https://bombas.comMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe 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." - MeLINKS:Buy The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396Learn 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-sMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“My life is great. And it still sucks.” - MeLINKS:Check out THE WHITE PONY: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry here: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_White_Pony.html?id=Pk8SAAAAYAAJBuy 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." - MeLINKS:Buy "Here" here (haha!): https://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Here/9780547592091PLEASE 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-sCheck 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-poetsA badly written version of the story of what my UFF BALL is: http://uffball.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-story-of-my-uff-ball.htmlJaron Lanier: http://www.jaronlanier.com/tenarguments.htmlSherry Turkle: http://www.reclaimingconversationbook.comBuy 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=123Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enBuy 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 lackof 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-drawingsIf 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. CummingsLINKS:Buy "Solitude" here: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics//catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400044238Go to the fair! https://artlosangelesfair.comCheck out The Grey Market here: https://news.artnet.com/about/tim-schneider-641Check out Iva here: https://ivaplungerboy.com/home.htmlBuy a ME READING STUFF shirt here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-sMe 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-ruefleBuy ZYZZYVA here: https://www.zyzzyva.org/issue/volume-34-3-winter-2018/Follow David Drury's VERY short story page here

"....'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.orgThe "Promises" of Al-Anon: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+promises+of+al+anon&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8Buy INFINITE JEST here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-foster-wallace/infinite-jest/9781619696181/Check out The Great Concavity podcast here: https://greatconcavity.podbean.comListen 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_00Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enME READING STUFF shirts available here: https://cottonbureau.com/products/me-reading-stuff#/972221/tee-men-stand

"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/9780156948777Buy 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-sMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe 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?" - MeLINKS: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-sBuy "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-cageListen 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/exhibi

“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.” - MeLINKS:Buy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396Buy "Complete Poems" by Vasko Popa here: https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/vasko-popa-complete-poems-1953-1987Buy 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%27neilFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilFollow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enGet 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-sListen 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%7DBuy a ME READING STUFF t-shirt or sweatshirt here: https://c