CURRENT MISSION

Moving to Maine!

ABOUT ME

I've been fortunate enough to travel widely in my 27 years. I've lived in Italy for 8 months, 4 as a student in Florence, and 4 as a draughtsman on an archaeological site in Sicily. I lived in Key West for a summer, and have traveled all over the US and parts of Canada. In 2007 I took a 3 month trip that took me to Ireland Poland Austria Slovakia Croatia Bosnia Serbia Turkey and China. I've also spent time in France Spain Germany and England.

PHILOSOPHY

I value kindness, surprise, curiosity and good times pretty highly.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm recently back from a three week couchstay in California. I was staying in a house shaped like a snail. It was swell.

Interests

I like making things. I'm looking forward to collecting flowers and plants in Maine, and learning how to press them. That said, I like taking walks and paying attention to nature.

• poetry
• flowers
• traveling
• basketball
• volleyball

Music, Movies, and Books

I like to read, and am pretty excited CS allows me enough space to keep my reading list. Without further ado.

2008: Basil Bunting's Collected Poems, Creeley's Selected, Hesiod's Theogony and Works of Days, Virgil's The Georgics tr. David Ferry, Wendell Berry's Selected, Cid Corman's Livingdying, Frank Samperi's The Prefiguration, Euripides' Bacchae, Ovid's The Erotic Poems tr. Peter Greene and Metamorphosis tr. Charles Martin, John McPhee's Pine Barrens, Frank Bidart's Collected, Robert Desnos' Selected Poems, Robert Hass' Time and Materials, Dorothea Laskey's Awe, Ashbery's Selected, Rod Smith's Deed, Ben Lerner's Angle of Yaw, Joe Massey's Property Line, Eureka Slough, and November Graph, William Harding's Days of Henry Thoreau, Walden, Robert Bly's Iron John, Don Revell's Thief of Strings, Fred Seidel's Ooga Booga, Cole Swenson's The Glass Age, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Theodore Enslin's To Build a Cathedral, Josh Beckman's Things Are Happening, Frederick Seidel's Selected poems 1959-, Irish Myth Legend and Folklore ed. WB Yeats, Vallejo's Trilce tr. Clayton Eshleman, a selection of John Muir essays, David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, WCW's The Desert Music, Wm. Blake's Collected, Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces, George Lensing's Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth, Horace Beck's Folklore and the Sea, Cole Swenson's Goest, Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes this World, Don Revell's My Mojave, Seamus Heaney's The Redress of Poetry, Lewis Hyde's The Gift, Claude Levi-Strauss' Myth and Meaning, Devin Johnston's Sources
2009: Poems for the Millennium V.1, ed. by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Hugh Kenner's A Sinking Ship: The Modern English Writers, Hart Crane's Collected, Robert Bly's Leaping Poetry: an idea with translations, Eliot Weinberger's American Poetry since 1950, Ronald Johnson's The Book of the Green Man, Joseph Ceravolo's The Green Lake is Awake, Linh Dinh's American Tatts, Guy Davenport's The Geography of the Imagination, Ed Dorn's Abhorrences, K. Silem Mohammad's Hanging Out With Pablo and Jennifer, The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner, ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery, Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time, Peter Gizzi's Artificial Heart, Frank Samperi's The Prefiguration, Peter Gizzi's Periplum and Other Poems, David Melnick's PCOET and A Pin's Fee, First Screening by bpNichol, Shaminism by Mircea Eliade, Paterson by William Carlos Williams, The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems by Rosalie Moore, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne, Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Rob Fitterman, George Oppen's Of Being Numerous, Necromance by Rae Armantrout, Science Fiction by Andrew Joron, Raphael Rubenstein's Through a Blue Field, Juliana Spahr's Response, Eliot Weinberger’s Oranges and Peanuts for Sale, Shorter American Memory by Rosemarie Waldrop, The Life and Times of Amos Wilson: The Pennsylvania Hermit by Amos Wilson, Pause Button by Kevin Davies, Air the Trees by Larry Eigner, Areas of Fog by Joe Massey, George Oppen's Discrete Series, Frank Samperi's sanza mezzo, The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert, Well Meaning White Girl by Alli Warren, Kenneth Cox’s Studies in the use of the English language, Aversions by Devin Johnston, Stephen Rodefer's Four Lectures, The Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader, The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn, Presences of Mind: The Collected Books of Jack Sharpless, Jennifer Moxley's Clampdown, A Wreath of Christmas Poems ed. by A. Hayes and J. Laughlin, Some Kind of Cheese Orgy by Linh Dinh, Conversations with Walt Whitman by Sadakichi Hartmann
2010: Cities by Robert Kelly, Over Here by Frank Sherlock, The Western Borders by Susan Howe, Bruce Andrew's Acapella, Gertrude Stein by Aram Saroyan, Picasso by Gertrude Stein, Joseph Massey's The Lack Of, Christopher Rizzo's Naturalistless, Christopher Dewdney's Demon Pond, In the Quells by Christopher Rizzo, Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, John Wiener's Selected Poems 1958-84, Linh Dinh's Drunkard Boxing, The Breaks by Christopher Rizzo, Lihn Dihn's Borderless Bodies, Stephen Rodefer's Villon, Found Poems by Bern Porter, The Last Acts of St. Fuck You by Bern Porter, Aphasia by Bern Porter, Dieresis by Bern Porter, Wrong Life by Jennifer Moxley, The Line by Jennifer Moxley, CAConrad’s Advanced Elvis Course, Frank Sherlock’s Ready to Eat Individual, Kevin Varrone’s Passayunk Lost, Benjamin Winkler’s Whereupon, Jennifer Moxley’s The Middle Room, Michael McClure’s Thirteen Mad Sonnets, Linh Dinh’s Jam Alerts, Bill Morgan's bio on Allen Ginsberg, Frank Sherlock's Feast Day Gone & Coming,

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a lot of good poems, and other wonderful things to read. I'm a good wave-rider and basketball/volleyball player, and can teach those things. I can also teach people how to shuck oysters.