No ideas but in things

I'm the author of the chapbook "Call it a Window" (Midwest Writing Center, 2012). This is a collection of inspirations.
More old pictures / more Greenpoint.

More old pictures / more Greenpoint.

Cleaning out my phone of old pictures. This is from Nuit Blanche (sp?) in Greenpoint in fall 2010.

Cleaning out my phone of old pictures. This is from Nuit Blanche (sp?) in Greenpoint in fall 2010.

My phone’s memory is running out of space so I’m throwing pictures up here. Greenpoint, Brooklyn (the view from my roof).

My phone’s memory is running out of space so I’m throwing pictures up here. Greenpoint, Brooklyn (the view from my roof).

It’s so strange to find a place and call it home, while knowing that its pieces are changing, always. brooklynanalog: Wasco Out-of-business automobile repair and service shop on the corner of McGuinness and Nassau in Greenpoint, which until recently had a Chevy Nova perched on top of the building as part of its signage. Apparently, the building is slated to be turned into a restaurant sometime soon. Diana F+, Fuji Velvia 100f (cross-processed).

It’s so strange to find a place and call it home, while knowing that its pieces are changing, always.

brooklynanalog:

Wasco

Out-of-business automobile repair and service shop on the corner of McGuinness and Nassau in Greenpoint, which until recently had a Chevy Nova perched on top of the building as part of its signage. Apparently, the building is slated to be turned into a restaurant sometime soon.

Diana F+, Fuji Velvia 100f (cross-processed).

This picture captures (some of) what I love about Greenpoint. The balloons, the family, and the fact that someone else, a stranger, thought the moment valuable enough to document. brooklynanalog: Generations McGuiness Boulevard. Diana F+, Fuji Velvia 100f, cross-processed.

This picture captures (some of) what I love about Greenpoint. The balloons, the family, and the fact that someone else, a stranger, thought the moment valuable enough to document.

brooklynanalog:

Generations

McGuiness Boulevard.

Diana F+, Fuji Velvia 100f, cross-processed.

I just bought lovely cards from you last weekend. Note to Word: sell stamps! wordbrooklyn: Note to self: send more cards.

I just bought lovely cards from you last weekend.

Note to Word: sell stamps!

wordbrooklyn:

Note to self: send more cards.

Subway pumps pump out brackish water as the Hudson moves in and out with the tide. The moon pulls at the iron in my blood: I grow heavy on the roof, watching the pink bellies of airplanes streaking low into Laguardia… // poem-in-progress: Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Subway pumps pump out brackish water

as the Hudson moves in and out with the tide.

The moon pulls at the iron in my blood:

I grow heavy on the roof, watching the pink

bellies of airplanes streaking low into Laguardia…

//

poem-in-progress: Greenpoint, Brooklyn

my first author interview (by @roseofbohemia)

  • Rose: How did you decide to organize the poems by geographical locations? Did you start out with that in mind?
  • Monica: Jon, who I dedicated the book to, always told me that I should try to write poems that take place on different streets in NYC. That project didn’t happen, but I did make a zine called Poetry Maps, where I took poems that I had already written and placed them on a map of NYC. Queens, Manhattan, Long Island. The zine never really went anywhere, but from that the idea of organizing the poems by geography always appealed to me. Where the poems take place is really important to me. (Read more at http://roseofbohemia.wordpress.com/)