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JP Grasser

A former Wallace Stegner fellow, JP Grasser holds a PhD from the University of Utah, where he edited Quarterly West. He lives in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and serves as an associate editor for 32 Poems.

Rural Spaces

Fall 2024

New Year’s Day, Alone

By JP Grasser

What, loneliness? Well, the checkerboard butterflies I like the most are mostly dead. The sun, I’ve seen it rise for a month straightfrom the wrong coast, and the light at […]

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2022

Longitudinal Study

By JP Grasser

After Karen Solie Straight rain is obliterating itself against the brow of the river some six miles to the linear west. Amazing, how one static cloud rolls forward unto itself […]