11/28/2014

Again, tonight, linear rain

against the tin roof I have

 

never slept under

sounds its circular refrain.

BIO:

J.P. Grasser is originally from Maryland. His poetry explores the diverse regions he has called home, most insistently his family’s fish hatchery in Brady, Nebraska. He studied English and Creative Writing at Sewanee: The University of the South and is currently an MFA student in poetry at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter Online, The Collagist, and Nashville Review, among others.
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02/19/2010
'the winter sky bleeds', Brooklyn Copeland


02/04/2010
'So much a poet he despises poetry', Christian Wiman


05/02/2012
'Attrition', Jaime Garcia