J.P. Grasser
[100 Syllables]
The pandemic winnowed. I felt less of the world, more in it. Hard to explain. Lots of questions. Something like a sensory deprivation chamber, I imagined, though I’ve never been in one. But there was a clarity to living free of so much of the noise, too. [100 Syllables], a folio of work one hundred syllables or fewer, seemed an answer in form. Here it is.
—JPG
A former Stegner Fellow, JP Grasser is a Doctorow Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Utah, where he edited Quarterly West. His recent work was recognized with the inaugural Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize from the Academy of Poets and Frontier Poetry's 2019 Open Prize. He lives in Montana's Bitterroot Valley and serves as an Associate Editor for 32 Poems.