A Remington Rand No. 17, settled on a desk without a chair, requiring Tyler Knott Gregson to stand “Hemingway style” for no more than 7 minutes a day as a new poem spills out on a piece of scrap paper. His poems aren’t rewritten or edited, other than the occasional type over a misspelled word, and he hasn’t missed a day since he started his “Typewriter Series” on March 28, 2012. Once typed, Gregson scans the poems into his computer and posts them to his website, which has more than 100,000 followers.

With so many requests from fans asking for his work, he decided to sell a few prints of his poetry over the holiday season. “Literally, I thought I was going to get maybe 20 people that would order,” he said in an interview, while sitting in the living room of his century-old house in Helena. “I just can’t keep up, I think I’ve sold over $10,000 worth of prints and they’ve gone to like 30 countries.”

Being a professional photographer as well, Gregson says, “he’s not sure how he’ll have enough time to mail his poetry all over the world” during the summer months. He is the co-owner of Treehouse Photography and has his summer booked with weddings nearly every day.

Gregson says “he loves his photography job too much to give it up and focus only on selling his poetry. Being with so many people on the happiest day of their lives — their wedding day — actually fuels a lot of his writing.” His work, much of which focuses on love, faith and hopefulness, has definitely become popular to a broad audience.

The uniqueness of his writing, which stems from his photography, is that he doesn’t over think his work. “I can’t highlight a sentence and move it,” he says. “I like that I can’t erase a whole paragraph if I think it sucks. I like that it’s, it’s what was inside. It’s unfiltered. It’s just straight from brain to paper.” It’s the overwhelming passion he has, “I think love is the dominant force in the universe,” he says, which is what brought him to becoming a wedding photographer to begin with.

Nearly four years ago, he challenged himself to write a haiku every day, which he calls “Daily Haiku on Love.” Although simple, and quick witted, his poems have the ability to capture one with their optimistic view.

He started writing when he was 12, once diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. He would find himself in trouble a lot in school, so writing was his only outlet. “I would just borrow a sheet of paper and I would have to write. It would never be related to the class- but that was my way of getting through the day.” His condition has done anything but hinder him however, if anything, it has made him stronger in all aspects of his career. He’s never been taught how to do something artistic, like photography or writing, and his perseverance to be self-taught has gotten him a long way.  He said he’s “always worried that if I’m taught how to do it, I’ll do it like the person that taught me. Even if that’s bad, I would rather be a bad writer writing like myself than a great one that sounds like someone else.” His writing style, although short and sweet, is straight to the point. The briefness of it allows for everyone to relate in one-way or another, which is why he has such a big following that continues to grow daily.

*All citations are from an interview with Tyler Knott Gregson conducted on January 1, 2013 by Eddie Gregg