Me Reading Stuff

"Will I be ableOn this unrest-fieldTo raise you a tent of my hands"-Far Within Us (1943) (Popa)"I will be ableUnder this peaceful strikeTo bury you fields of surrender"-Far Past This (2018) (O'Neil)LINKS:Buy Vasko Popa's Complete Poems here: http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/vasko-popa-complete-poems-1953-1987My show in Houston: https://www.deasil.artMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"It's Ted. It's Vera's Boy." -Ted Kooser"It's Robyn. It's Jim and Wendy's girl." - MeLINKS: Buy Delights & Shadows here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B5DB744E9-E4AB-4314-A21F-C4C84A317273%7D

I had a rectangular pupil. I had a hot dog shaped pupil. I had a clover shaped pupil. And now it is round. LINKS:Buy Ugrešić's book and learn more about her from New Directions: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/dubravka-ugresic/Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enFollow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Today I tell the story of “Barry”, a man who offered to pay me $40,000 for 2 hours of work. Nope, it wasn’t for sex work! Listen to this podcast to find out what he wanted me to do. But more importantly, listen to hear from TODD: “Even when your own biography is breaking and entering into taboo areas, blazing and stabbing and juicing the days into their glistening parts our stories deepen as they go, finally revealing something not unlike the origin of the world.” Andrew WeatherheadLINKS:Buy Andrew Weatherhead’s book TODD here: https://monsterhousepress.com/books/todd-andrew-weatherheadFollow Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/weeatherhead?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorFollow Andrew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeatherhead/TODD release party in NYC: https://www.facebook.com/events/1794628867506303/Go to Matthew Sontheimer’s show at The Union in Omaha, NE! http://www.u-ca.org/exhibition/

"Being happy is for what?" LINKS:Buy Near to the Wild Heart here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/near-to-the-wild-heart1/Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMicrowave-able Heating Pads: https://www.thewarmingstore.com/herbal-heat-pack.html?productid=herbal-heat-pack&channelid=FROOG&utm_source=CSE&utm_medium=GoogleShopping&utm_campaign=SolidCactus&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5t7UBRDaARIsAOreQthOM1XP7aBw20K_dc0NllDnA4mSFnMUPcQSs8EnD6H2zfd_PRcBx8EaAplIEALw_wcB

Tonight is the night I finally share the Q&A I did with Kevin Corrigan in NYC in January. Truly the highlight of my life. Listen here to hear him perform a dramatic reading of a poem he constructed out of the titles of my drawings. I still kind of do not believe this happened. But there is this recording of it, so apparently it did. But I still don't think so. Maybe nothing in my life has happened. Wouldn't that be something. “The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.” -W.S. MerwinLINKS:Video of my Q&A w/ Kevin Corrigan!: https://www.facebook.com/SusanInglettGallery/videos/10155998518482173/Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinFCorriganKevin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinfcorrigan/?hl=enKevin on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180984/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1Kevin's band Crystal Robots: https://crystalrobots.bandcamp.comBuy my book here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawingsMy NYC gallery: http://www.inglettgallery.comErratic Fire, Erratic Passion:

Special thanks to my backup choir: Frankie and The Driers. Also, about that room I am. The most trafficked bathroom in a family home. I've seen things is what that means. I've seen things and have been forced to accept the worst & most human of things. Imagine it. I love you. LINKS:Buy Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-flowers-of-evil-charles-baudelaire/1125411806/2675900699807?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Catch-All,+Low_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP79700&gclid=CjwKCAiAn5rUBRA3EiwAUCWb2wj_VliX6UFIXAVeURw1b3dZiIaquJds3NoXeQFjbOkJHLYRKSIzzhoCSk8QAvD_BwELearn more about artist Tyler Bright Hilton here: http://www.tylerbrighthilton.comListen to the Sally Mann interview here: https://soundcloud.com/nypl/sally-mann-on-cy-twombly-and-the-babushkas-who-saved-russian-artCy Twombly Gallery: https://www.menil.org/campus/cy-twombly-galleryWatch the Sally Mann documentary here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/what-remains-the-life-and-work-of-sally-mann/id5

"In the Aztec empire, every fifty-two years, once in an average lifetime, the world was on the verge of coming to an end. The sun would no longer move, night would be eternal, and man-eating demons would descend to rule the earth." - Eliot Weinberger"In Kingwood, Texas, one afternoon in 2008, a woman and her dog Henry took a walk around their blistering neighborhood. A trio of preteen boys shouted a question at the woman: "Why are you so ugly?", and the woman now regrets not having released her man-eating demon to exact revenge on the little creeps." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS:Find out where to buy Eliot Weinberger's "An Elemental Thing" on the New Directions site here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/See the trailer for my film WE, THE MASSES here: https://vimeo.com/26486761More on director Eoghan Kidney here: http://cargocollective.com/kidneyInfo on my Ohio exhibition here: https://www.wooster.edu/arts/museum/exhibit/current/Me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on twitte

Let's talk about little girl's skulls & 13 year-old boys drawing. Let's talk about you saddling horses and then we'll watch what you got in store. Let's talk about green onions and terra cotta (just to lighten the mood). Then push me out of your car. I'll dream of tigers. I'll continue to be loud and too much and big. XO, RobynLINKS:Instagram: @vera.solaFB: Facebook.com/verasolasoundWeb: www.verasola.comYouTube: www.youtube.com/verasolaTwitter: @verasolasoundUPCOMING NYC SHOW!:Vera Sola performing w/ Aster String Quartet January 30, 2018Public Arts Space at the Public Hotel on Chrystie StreetDoors open at 8pm $10Event info and tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1622019Free Download of LAST CARESS: https://verasola.bandcamp.comME on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilME on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

I'm on fire in an annoying way tonight. But don't worry, I apologize for it. There was also a bit of a snafu where I almost told you to watch the new CAT STEVENS comedy special on Netflix. Can you imagine that shit? Someone should make that for real. And lastly my leaky, unsteady heart set off an impassioned round of applause for each one of you. LINKS:Trailer for American Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23usoyDRLtQThe Great Concavity Podcast: https://greatconcavity.podbean.comMy appearance on The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com/e/episode-3-with-robyn-oneil/Matt Bucher on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattbucher?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorDavid Drury on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davdrury?lang=enFolded Shorts on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foldedshorts/Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

My hotel was worried about me, I bought a cookie, I am a bat and a coyote, I will write tonight, I have things going on.LINKS:Buy Mary Ruefle's On Imagination here: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/on-imagination-mary-ruefleCome see me and Kevin Corrigan Saturday NYC!: http://www.inglettgallery.com/content/3-news/20180113-robyn-o-neil-kevin-corrigan/o-neil_invitation.pdfHit me up on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enTalk to me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

"For my sisters who remember everything differently..."LINKS:Buy "Displeasures of the Table" here: http://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Martha-Ronk-Displeasures-of-the-Table-&BookID=44My SVA evening on Jan 9th: http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/robyn-oneil-lecture-and-screeningInfo about my book signing at Susan Inglett Gallery on Jan 13th: http://www.inglettgallery.comTrailer for my film WE, THE MASSES: https://vimeo.com/26486761Malvern Books: http://malvernbooks.comStephanie Goehring: https://twitter.com/eselgoehring

"Overheard in the moonlight.Overcome in the moonlight." - Claudia RankineI love listening to you. LINKS:Buy Citizen here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizenLearn more about HERO TO THE WORLD Claudia Rankine here: http://claudiarankine.comBuy the book of my artwork here (just click under HARDCOVER and there are plenty available still): https://www.amazon.com/Robyn-ONeil-20-Years-Drawings/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514509462&sr=8-1&keywords=20+years+of+drawingFollow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enFollow me on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” -Gary SnyderTonight I talk (again) about the ample chest of my grandma and what that meant to me when we hugged. After that, I accidentally talk shit about people who have muscles. And then I read a couple of very short poems & end the podcast more satisfied with life than I've ever sounded in the history of my time on the planet. It was kinda strange. But really good. And I'm back to normal already, so I'm really glad I got to spend that minute with you.Lots of love to you all as this year approaches a full dissolve. While the 2017 You melts away, I wish you a 2018 brighter and stronger than you could have imagined. We're all in this together. LINKS:Buy Gary Snyder's "This Present Moment" here: http://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/this-present-moment/Buy Anne Carson's Plainwater here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/24646/plainwater-by-anne-carson/9781101911273/Nat Evans Twitter: https://twitter.com/natevans__Nat Evans Instagram:

"I forgot who said, 'The poet is like a mechanic in love with the engine of his car.' " - Charles Simic "I love dark, royalty free hip hop." -Me LINKS:Buy The Horse Has Six Legs here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legsLearn more about Charles Simic here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/charles-simicListen to my interview on We Eat Art here: http://www.weeatart.com/blog/2017/12/21/episode-20-robyn-oneilConsider contributing to their Patreon so that they can continue putting out more and more episodes with great artists! https://www.patreon.com/weeatartMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Fuzzy things, apples, water, dusk, pencils, good books, nice people, funny people, couches and cooking magazines, extreme weather, people's necks, water again, walking, creating healthy boundaries, taking notes, reading, taking baths, grandmas, potatoes, salads, potato salad, vinegar, pickles, blankets, soft clothes, silence, accepting, making sure people know they're loved. LINKS:Look how cheap WORLD POETRY is! $1.99 for a book w/ over 1,000 pages of poetry!: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/world-poetry-clifton-fadiman/1122987694/2677020633099?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Marketplace+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP164998&gclid=Cj0KCQiA38jRBRCQARIsACEqIeu2MAzy-k4UtA8EF6qo-BRGa49L9dAEh-fhCw-K824GmNstcwK1bTEaAtaDEALw_wcBHere's my book on Amazon (it looks sold out, but it's not!): https://www.amazon.com/Robyn-ONeil-20-Years-Drawings/dp/0692896511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513297859&sr=8-1&keywords=robyn+o%27neilHere's my book at Archon: https://www.archonprojects.com/

I will be feet from John Goodman tomorrow. My energy level is low. I once went to the proctologist. I'm vulnerable and I like that. The horse knows that his owner is a torturer. Watch your back. LINKS:Buy W.H. Auden's Collected Poems here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/6183/collected-poems-by-w-h-auden/Amazon link to my book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0692896511/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1512687788&sr=8-1Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_IcarusThe Great Concavity (David Foster Wallace podcast): https://greatconcavity.podbean.comMy appearance on The Great Concavity: https://greatconcavity.podbean.com/?s=robyn+Archon Projects: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawingsFollow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilFollow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

I knew these people. These two people. They were in love with each other.LINKS:Sam Shepard: http://www.sam-shepard.comThe audio of this scene: http://theresearchsociety.tumblr.com/post/12347992593/i-knew-these-people-ry-cooder-with-harry-deanWim Wenders: http://www.wim-wenders.comParis, Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." - Anton Chekhov "Drink some water, eat an apple, be quiet, take a walk, and get the fuck outta here!" - MeLINKS:Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) and his bike story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9QihlBt5MoWestern Exhibitions in Chicago: http://westernexhibitions.comMy favorite Tig Notaro performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwzYB545hYDavid Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_JestMe: https://www.robynoneil.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Today, Thanksgiving, I finally tell you my Christian Bale fight story. It's too bad I did a terrible job of telling it. Whether you're sweating in the kitchen, hiding resentments or just being forced to hug a weird cousin, spend a little time with me. Go outside and hide for a while. Take some breaths. Remember it'll all be over soon. And hey, if you're one of those Americans that just loves the Holidays and is having a blast with your family, GOOD FOR YOU! Keep it up. Sorry for my negativity/reality. Keep coming back. I love you too. LINKS:Buy Tomas Tranströmer's The Great Enigma here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/Buy my book "Robyn O'Neil: 20 Years of Drawings" here: https://www.archonprojects.com/shop/robyn-oneil-20-years-of-drawingsMe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en