About this episode

In this episode, Robyn O'Neil discusses her unique approach to understanding time, reflects on her regrets about not learning Greek, and reads works by Fuyue Anzai, Walt Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg while celebrating the act of walking.

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.

Topics covered

• poetry
• literature
• walking
• Greek mythology
• personal reflection

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