monique

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

About Me

i'm monique. i like poetry and spoken word. i have a new baby daughter and she's beautiful. her name's M.J.

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
T. S. Eliot

My Interests

poetry, writing, reading, spoken word

I'd like to meet:

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster

Recent Blog Posts:
Spoken Word Video: The Poet's Poem by Lady Wisdom

Music:

talib kweli, mos def, common

Movies:

Pi, Block Party

Television:

Def Poetry

Books:

1984

Heroes:

My Mother