Beatin' Paths
Aidan FitzsimonsThe Journey to the Great American Novel, now on Substack from Beatinpaths.com. Essays, stories, and poetry written across all 50 states. On my quest to understand America as deeply as possible, I hitchhike and live in a school bus full of books.
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southern tennessee / natchez trace
two poems from backroads detours through the south
I like to take backroads. At this point, I’ve driven across the country so many times that I’ve made ruts through all the interstates; so, I have to turn off my GPS, and beat my own improv...
loving is all ways
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loving is all ways
loving is all ways
and it never sets
even as the moment
spins upon its star—
all light
balanced...
Fuji Mountain, Oregon
Wrote this poem the other day at the peak of Fuji Mountain in Oregon, surrounded by 360-degree vistas of the Oregon Cascades. It felt good to write a place-based poem again in my old notebook. For the last few months, most of my poetry has...
The Pentagon vs. Claude
I wrote this piece on the unfolding battle between the Trump Administration and the AI company Anthropic as part of my “Tech and Democracy” coverage for The Renovator back in April. Since then, the ongoing drama has only gotten crazier, wit...
Poems at L'Enfant Gallery
I made art at a Real Classy Art Gallery!
Last Saturday, I wrote live typewriter poetry in the window of L’Enfant Gallery in Georgetown.
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