“Well, I gotta tell you something.
“Sun Goin’ Down,” Lightnin’ Hopkins.
It’s getting late in the evening, now,
and the sun is goin’ down.
The blues, nothing but the blues.
People don’t like the blues, there’s nothing
I can do, and I ain’t gonna sell
you nothin’ but the blues.”
joseph.modugno@gmail.com
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–Joseph, January 2020.
The Land West of Long Mountain is a travel blog and literary arts project. A creative endeavor. A cosmic adventure. A project for peace, education and entertainment. Our aspiration is your inspiration, and our deep hope of the heart is to leave you satisfied and tickled, too. In short: we hope our work resonates with you.
When you finish reading a story and travel on, continuing on with the journey of your life, we hope you leave the Land West of Long Mountain feeling enlightened, ennobled, and wiser. We hope you feel more full of love for life and empathy for all.
Praise, presence and joy. Praise for the planet and its myriad peoples, and celebration of its cultures. Joy in travel and presence deeply-rooted in place. Praise for the earth and everything under the sun is what The Land West of Long Mountain Project ultimately aspires to sing. Put simply: the sublime.
To learn more about the project, you may read our first dispatch here.
Joseph is a graduate of the MFA Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. He grew up outside Boston, Massachusetts and went to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he trained as a cadet and Army officer candidate for a year, before transferring to UMass Amherst and completing his education in English, Journalism and Philosophy.
After college, Joseph worked as a Peace Corps volunteer and teacher in Gansu, China’s arid and historic northwestern frontier, and first backpacked across the high deserts of Tibet, Central Asia and the Greater Himalaya and down through the highlands of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. After thirty-one months abroad, he returned home to the states to pursue his MFA in California.
Joseph’s study of literature, his military and Peace Corps service, his early life in New England and his experiences living and traveling in foreign countries inform the subject matter of much of his work and have shaped his concerns as a writer. Currently, Joseph is living again in Gansu, where he writes, teaches and travels by season.
Along with his nonfiction work at The Land West of Long Mountain Project, Joseph is also an aspiring author, a novelist and short story writer in the tradition of literary fiction. To contact him or learn more about his work, please feel free to write him by email. Thank you.
Contact:
joseph.modugno@gmail.com
