Nowhere to Go but Everywhere: Travel Poems

From the airports of childhood to the backroads of America and the borderlands of Europe, Nowhere to Go but Everywhere traces a lifetime of movement and meaning. These poems are both map and mirror-charting landscapes of memory and discovery.

Budimir's verse carries us from Cheyenne to Seoul, Pittsburgh to Budapest, weaving snapshots of ordinary moments into meditations on distance, belonging, and the beauty of the in-between. Rooted in wanderlust and tempered by reflection, this collection reminds us that travel is an act of survival and understanding.

For readers who crave both movement and meaning, Nowhere to Go but Everywhere looks at how travel leaves its fingerprints on who we become.

Milenko (Miles) Budimir is the author of several books of poems including Licorice Heart (Roadside Press), Departures (Burning River) and Rustbelt Romance (deep cleveland). His photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions over the years where they have won awards and been acquired for private collections. He works as a philosophy lecturer and a technical writer and editor. He is from Cleveland, Ohio.