{"id":2993,"date":"2016-10-14T01:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T01:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:28:32","slug":"how-i-discovered-america-by-brian-beatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/how-i-discovered-america-by-brian-beatty\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Discovered America by Brian Beatty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2994 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1414605594276-fda3244f6eab-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"photo-1414605594276-fda3244f6eab\" width=\"607\" height=\"406\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1414605594276-fda3244f6eab-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1414605594276-fda3244f6eab-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1414605594276-fda3244f6eab-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/photo-1414605594276-fda3244f6eab-624x418.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 607px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 607\/406;\" \/><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">How I Discovered America<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Brian Beatty<\/p>\n<p>East of downtown, Lake Michigan<br \/>\nwas all it took for me (no native guides)<br \/>\nto orient myself by Chicago\u2019s freshwater sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a young man going as far as you can,<br \/>\nconstantly afraid you might drown\u201d perfectly<br \/>\ndescribes my mid-twenties roaming the city.<\/p>\n<p>More than one crowded sidewalk<br \/>\nI navigated with an orange life jacket<br \/>\ntugged over my everyday clothes.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Brian Beatty\u2019s poems and stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including <em>The Bark, Conduit, Dark Mountain<\/em> (England), <em>The Evergreen Review, Forklift Ohio, Gigantic, The Glasgow Review of Books<\/em> (Scotland), <em>Great Walks<\/em> (Australia), <em>Gulf Coast, Hobart, McSweeney\u2019s, Midwestern Gothic, The Moth<\/em> (Ireland), <em>Opium, Paper Darts, Phoebe, The Quarterly, RHINO, Seventeen, Southern Poetry Review and The Sycamore Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beatty is the author of the collections <em>Coyotes I Couldn\u2019t See<\/em> (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and Brazil, Indiana (Kelsay Books\/Aldrich Press, forthcoming).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Beatty\u2019s poems and stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including The Bark, Conduit, Dark Mountain (England), The Evergreen Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}