Ken Cormier
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....Ken Cormier is a teacher, performance poet, independent
....radio producer, and musician.
He is the author of Balance
....Act, a book of poems and stories published by Insomniac
....Press, and of the forthcoming The Tragedy in My
....Neighborhood from Dead Academics Press. His live
....performances have been described.as “a William
....Burroughs exorcism through a Karaoke machine, whipping
....the crowd into a frenzy, filled with amazement and genuine
....toe-tappin' joy.” 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 currently a Ph.D. candidate at the
....University of Connecticut where he teaches courses in
....creative writing.and literature. He designed and taught
....The Art of Audio.Narrative, an advanced creative writing
....workshop at UConn in spring.2009.
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