ME READING STUFF

Episode 418: Summer Break, Continued Delusions, and a Poem by Joshua Garvelink

"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 Fit

Episode 417: C.K. Williams & Definitions of "Quiet"

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 Do

Episode 416: ❣️This Podcast's 20th Anne Carson Episode❣️

“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

Episode 415: 🏀Celebrating the Poetry of Sportstalk with Fan Favorite: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion!🎾

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

Episode 414: 🎙️The 11th Anniversary Special: The Poem That Started It All – "The Man on the Dump"

🎙️ The 11th Anniversary of ME READING STUFF 🎂 Dear listener, Well, we've officially been kicking it for ELEVEN YEARS. Through vasectomies, divorce, mystery illnesses,

Episode 413: Dionne Brand – "Islands Vanish" from Nomenclature

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 pleasur

Episode 412: 📚Wendell Berry, Building Altars & Exhaustion

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 po

Episode 411: Taschen's The Book of Symbols: The Color Gray

"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 i

Episode 410: Charles Simic & Anne Carson – A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (1925-2025)

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 "

Episode 409: Andy Warhol - "Atmosphere" from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

"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 l

Episode 408: Mason Currey – Daily Rituals: Women at Work (Octavia Butler & Martha Graham)

"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 sayin

Episode 407: Laurie Anderson - O Superman

"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

Episode 406: Mystery Poem Found in a Library Book

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 yo

Episode 405: Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman & Allen Ginsberg

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 Ginsb

Episode 404: A Michael Silverblatt Tribute & a David Markson Reading

"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 t

Episode 403: Anne Boyer & Floor Piles

"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, the

Episode 402: The Public Domain Review & The Bold and the Beautiful

"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

Episode 401: An After Dark Special! Vasko Popa for Valentine's Day

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 🖤 A

Episode 400: Geri Jewell - I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond

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 W

Episode 399: The World Book Encyclopedia - The Letter "A"

Today, we head back to Encyclopedia Corner, exploring the letter "A". Also discussed: The Prinzhorn Collection, Jean Dubuffet, Hypergraphia, Emma Hauck, Ants, Animals, Th