Yucheng Tao is a Chinese poet and international student in Los Angeles. He serves as a reader for Palette Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry.onl, Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Ink Sweat & Tears, North Dakota Quarterly, Wild Court, NonBinary Review, Marrow, The Lake, and is forthcoming in Black Fox, I-70 Review, Street Light, and New Plains. He has twice received an honorary award from the Dark Poet Club Contest.
PRAISE:
In this chapbook, the spirit of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is reimagined for a restless modern world. These poems move through highways, memories, cities, silences, and shifting states of mind, asking what it truly means to travel—not only across landscapes, but through uncertainty, longing, and self-discovery. Blending echoes of the Beat Generation with the pressures and hopes of the present day, this collection treats the road as both a journey and a question: What are we running from? What are we searching for? And who do we become along the way? Lyrical, searching, and alive with motion, this chapbook explores freedom, change, memory, and meaning—reminding us that the road is never just a place we go, but a way of trying to understand ourselves.
—Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita, Northern Kentucky University
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