"Destiny" is the fourth of six short-shorts from Ken Cormier that will run every other week for 12 weeks. My mother wins a radio contest, and suddenly we are rich! She begins savings accounts for me and my brother. My father is proud: he beams. … [Read more...]
About kencormier
Ken Cormier is a teacher, performance poet, independent radio producer, and musician. He is the author of two collections of stories and poems: Balance Act (Insomniac Press 2000) and The Tragedy in My Neighborhood (Dead Academics Press 2010). He has released three CDs of original music: God Damn Doghouse (2000) and Radio-Bueno (2002) with Elis Eil Records, and Nowhere Is Nowhere (2009) with Cosmodemonic Telegraph Records. Ken's live performances have been described as “a William Burroughs exorcism through a Karaoke machine.” Ken co-founded and edited The Lumberyard, a radio magazine of poetry, prose and music, which aired weekly on WHUS in Connecticut from 2005-2008. Ken is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Quinnipiac University.