J.P. Grasser

J.P. Grasser is a young, contemporary American poet who won the first Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize. His best-known poem is ‘Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild.’ The poem is well-regarded by critics for its insight into the future. Little is known about his life, but he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah.

Letter to My Great, Great, Grandchild

‘Letter to My Great, Great, Grandchild’ by J.P. Grasser is a powerful poem about the climate crisis. Throughout, the poet alludes to terrible planetary changes that occur in only a few generations.