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Hosted by Robyn O'Neil · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 393 episodes
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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
Robyn O'Neil hosts ME READING STUFF, a arts show with 393 episodes published.
"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
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' Writer
“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 week, we return to everyone's favorite poetry book, Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker. In Metta World Peace's poem, he discusses the difference between elbow and
🎙️ 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, nea
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
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 an
"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
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
"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 fl
"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
"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 c
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 - Q
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
"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." -Micha
"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 ha
"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 Celebr
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.
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 T
Today, we head back to Encyclopedia Corner, exploring the letter "A". Also discussed: The Prinzhorn Collection, Jean Dubuffet, Hypergraphia, Emma Hauck, Ants, Animals, The San Fernando Valley, Cardiology, and Cockroaches
Octavia Butler
luminary of speculative storytelling, first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship
1 appearance on this show
Mason Currey
Author of Daily Rituals on Making Art and Making a Living
1 appearance on this show
Allen Ginsberg
American poet
1 appearance on this show
Mike White
PhD Candidate in Clinical Physiology · The Projection Booth Podcast
1 appearance on this show
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Futurist and author
2 appearances on this show
Marlene Dietrich
1 appearance on this show
Werner Herzog
1 appearance on this show
Marie Howe
1 appearance on this show
Claudia Rankine
1 appearance on this show
Toni Morrison
1 appearance on this show
Rebecca Solnit
author
1 appearance on this show
Jane Hirshfield
1 appearance on this show
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