Hi,

I’m Jarrod. I primarily write fiction, but I’ve also dabbled in poetry. It’s always been present in my writing, in some form or another. I find that sentences themselves sound much better with a little poetic inspiration (after all who doesn’t love alliteration?).

In 2017, I graduated with a BFA in Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. While there, I was part of a poetry club. We called this little club ‘Poets with Passion’ and though poets came and went it was mostly the club president and I (an amazing writer we’ll just call IJ) attempting really poor and very loud slam poetry at various venues in Atlanta. Looking back, I realize the looks of surprise were more from people being shocked at the volume and affectation than the effectiveness of my prose.

I signed up for the Poetry Marathon because, to be honest, I’ve kind of abandoned poetry. I miss writing/performing it, and while I don’t miss the open-mic yelling, I do miss the emotion.

I’m looking for a car-battery-hooked-to-nipples type of jump start, so I think this will be perfect. I hope to get a lot of writing done and to run across a word or sentence, some bit of writing that reminds me of why I cared about poetry in the first place.

See you on the other side, ever-enduring word cadets.