Most immediately, his work orbits themes of anthropocentrism and masculine ownership paradigms, animal husbandry and the evolutions of the pastoral, climate change and ecological collapse, and reparative acts of rewilding language.
J.P. was raised outside of Washington, DC and on his family’s fish farm in Brady, Nebraska. He serves as an associate editor for 32 Poems and lives in Montana's Bitterroot Valley with his wife, their three horses, and two herding dogs.