Charles Grosel

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The Verb To Be

How did it be
If it never was?
When did it become
Grammared into
Existence? Where                                      
Will it go when the
Sentence is ended?

An editor, writer, and poet, Charles Grosel grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. After stints on both the West and East Coasts, he now lives in Arizona with his wife and their Chiweenie. He studied English literature at Yale University and fiction writing at the University of California, Davis, where he was a Regent’s Fellow. Grosel has published stories in journals such as Western Humanities Review, Fiction Southeast, Water-Stone, and The MacGuffin, as well as poems in The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Cream City Review, and Harpur Palate. His chapbook of poems is The Sound of Rain Without Water.