
The 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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In July, I hitchhiked around Ireland for 11 days. I spent most of my time on the northwest coast, with a few days in Dublin at the beginning and end. “Great South Wall” is a notebook poem from the Great South Wall that sticks way out into D...
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i truly am worth love,
as simply as the sight
of nature’s sky in sunshine is
worthy of blue light
i will not choose to suffer...
It is true that suffering, in a wide sense of the word, is a source of growth. We must experience the world, undergo life, bear new weights to gain new strengths. There are healthy kinds of suffering.
But for some people, suffering can bec...
Where I've been and where I'm going
For the last decade, my life has been hitched to a singular dream— absorbing America as deeply as possible, in order to become a representative American writer and contribute my unique verse to our unfin...
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...
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Adventuring around America in pursuit of the Great American Novel
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