CURRENT MISSION

I am going away... to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart." - Collette

ABOUT ME

Monica Storss is a left-coast writer with an affinity for the Deep South. Her work focuses on liminal and constructed spaces. She holds a master's degree from the University of California at Davis. She is married to the poet Arthur Rimbaud.

poetry + vegetarianism + literature + the beach + Buddhism + punk rock + postmodernism + dancing + art + domesticity + biculturalism + music + Arthur Rimbaud + French Fashion Mags + travel + sacred and religious texts + high brow + low art + ecoconservation + aesthetic values + performative aspects of stuff = me

PHILOSOPHY

poetry. performance. punk rock. pedagogy.

Art! Love! Valor!

Orthodox Mahayanan Buddhist.
The color and scent of the wisteria seems far from the moon. - Buson
The world is such a cruel place, and is out to get us, that it's the least we can do to be kind to one another.
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. - Arthur Rimbaud

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Savoir VS. Connaisannce

You sleep on my couch, I sleep on yr couch.

Interests

travel, poetry, music, world religions, performative aspects of stuff, punk rock, pedagogy, lamenting, spontaneous dance parties, sleeping, organizing readings, geurilla art, , vegetarian cooking (domestic arts in general), keeping in touch, pairing shoes with outfits, drawing eyeliner, ecoconservation, culture vs. nature, giving book reccomendations, talking to older people, giving music reccomendations (I have consummate taste), and teaching poetry.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• performing arts
• fashion
• coloring
• dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• partying
• traveling
• drawing
• magic
• music
• buddhist
• religion
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I am super interested in all areas of visual, performing, and literary arts. I am a working poet, and I run a reading series in San Francisco, California.

I am always up for doing reading excahnges - I can read at your venue, you come read at mine.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lourdes. It is night and sixty thousand pilgrims are rain soaked. In unison they raise their protected flames and little voices skywards, call and response, vespers, magic.

I have awoken in the Black Forest, climbed Coptic caves, and seen sunrise in Cappadocia. We're doin' great.

Teach, Learn, Share

Je est une autre. -Arthur

Art is knowledge.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States