"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 EngleLINKS:Taschen's The Book of Symbols My WebsiteMy ShopMy SubstackMy 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"LINKSBuy A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker MY NEW WEBSITE Check out my friend Jack's website!My Instagram My Substack“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.” ~Charles Simic 

"I love to walk but I can'tI love to swim but I can'tI love to sit in the sun but I can't I love to smell the flowers but I can'tI love to play tennis but I can'tI love to water-ski but I can't"~Andy Warhol"Lime flavored sparkling waters taste like Fruity Pebbles." ~MeLINKS:Buy The Philosophy of Andy WarholCheck out my InstagramCheck out my SubstackCheck out my Website (FINALLY updating MAY 15TH!)I love you guys! Thanks for listening. xoxo, Robyn

"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."" – MeLINKSPick up Mason Currey's Daily Ritual BooksFollow Mason Currey's SubstackFollow me on InstagramBuy my book 20 YEARS OF DRAWINGSFollow Anne J. Regan on InstagramThe BIG Eastfork Mug I bought myself.

"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?" ~MeLINKS:Listen/Watch Laurie Anderson's O SupermanMy new Substack PostMy newsletter signup at the bottom of MY WEBSITE.My FIRST COMIC!My INSTAGRAMThe trailer for Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine.

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 InstagramMy 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 Now, Voyager HERE.

"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 past, and sweatpants. Although I complain often and suffer from depression, my general demeanor is actually quite positive. I wish I liked hot tea and stillness more than I do." -Me LINKS:Buy Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women Me on InstagramMe on Substack

"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 CelebrationLINKSVisit The Public Domain ReviewWatch The Bold and the Beautiful My InstagramMy SubstackJoin Grig's Poetry PartyListen/Watch to Anne Carson's Lecture on Corners.