CURRENT MISSION

I compulsively steal language and am looking to learn and share language in any way possible!

ABOUT ME

I often hear that I am thoughtful, considerate, optimistic, ambitious, and a hopeless romantic. Sometimes you end up at a particular station in life and you either reject it or find a way to integrate. I also love to high five...once the integration occurs. Last May, I finished college and have had too many wonderful traveling experiences since then to want to stop!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Synergy is very important and when you have a space like this, it is not only an opportunity to explore and connect, but an opportunity to cultivate a community of collaborators for all future endeavors.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This is totally new to me but I am a junkie for sleeping on floors and being inside of new environments and sometimes waking up to pets can be nice, too!

Interests

Over the past few years I have engaged in poetry as less of an adoration and more as a vocation. It is something I am always working with and toward whether it be in my own writing or in the promotion and representation of others. When I am not working, thinking, loving all things poetry I try my best at writing music, go for walks in the woods, eavesdrop, collect, take pictures, collect some more, pretend that I am capable of much more than I am actually capable of, bake bread, idle, and start the process over.

• pets
• fish
• arts
• writing
• poetry
• cheese
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I read a lot of poetry books so I guess that unavoidably makes me a book snob...I'm sorry! Eileen Myles, Zachary Schomburg, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Matthew Zapruder, and on and on.

Movies: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sleeper, Coffee and Cigarettes..

Music: The Decemberists, Bonnie Prince Billy, Brown Bird, Death to Tyrants, Explosions in the Sky, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Fionn Regan, The Black Keys...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It was a few nights into my stay in Israel where I was staying in a hotel right on the Dead Sea. I was sitting on crappy beach chair, freezing, and looking across the water over into the hills of Jordan lit up like fish caught in Christmas lights. The moon was inverted which I never thought was possible. Perhaps it was the person keeping me company at the time or the perfect construction of a moment, but it certainly left an indelible mark for whatever reason.

Teach, Learn, Share

My fundamental mission in life is to share the necessity of art and poetry specifically. I also really think that cheese is important.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Germany, Israel, Poland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States