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 … [Read more...]
The One Where the Devil Takes My Family
When I fall asleep, he takes my family and puts them somewhere else. I don’t know where they are, exactly. Somewhere I can’t see. Maybe hell. When I wake, the truth in my stomach sours. Words orbit the roof of my mouth, a tomb from … [Read more...]
Road
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 … [Read more...]
Strangers
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 … [Read more...]
Impossible Poems
The title of this review post--so facile as to be vaguely macabre--is nonetheless accurate in the sense that Claudia Emerson’s project in writing Impossible Bottle is framed by a performative paradox: on the one hand, these poems document her … [Read more...]