Corey J. Boren

corey j. boren

COREY J. BOREN
Corey J. Boren is a senior at Utah Valley University whose work has appeared in journals such as The Allegheny Review, peculiar, Essais, and Last Leaves Magazine, among others. Corey was longlisted for the Button Poetry 2020 chapbook prize. While poetry is his first love, he’s had more than a few dalliances with speculative fiction, literary theory, webcomics, and really bad collages. He wants a time machine so he can meet Karen Carpenter. Or Gwendolyn Brooks. Or his fourteen year old self, who thought the haircut was a good idea.
"After reading [this piece], I'm thankful for the writer's wonderous images: they evoke in vivid details the particulars of OCD, and a desire to stay grounded in the world, to know that 'what matters is [the] right now' of writing. Writing to breathe. Writing to survive."
—Fred Arroyo, author of Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Western Avenue and Other Fictions
"Corey has a keen sense of how loss can disrupt a person who is coming of age, and the ways in which music can serve as signposts for emotional evolutions we experience in times of change."
—Jenny Molberg, director of Pleiades Press and author of Marvels of the Invisible
"The poem itself, every intricate image and expression of it, becomes a moving account... I’m grateful to have been given the chance to read it."
—Ae Hee Lee, author of Connotary
"The author has a clear sense of what they want to achieve and executes this plan with precision."
—Claire Åkebrand, author of What Was Left of the Stars
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COREY J. BOREN

"After reading [this piece], I'm thankful for the writer's wonderous images: they evoke in vivid details the particulars of OCD, and a desire to stay grounded in the world, to know that 'what matters is [the] right now' of writing. Writing to breathe. Writing to survive."

"Corey has a keen sense of how loss can disrupt a person who is coming of age, and the ways in which music can serve as signposts for emotional evolutions we experience in times of change."

"The poem itself, every intricate image and expression of it, becomes a moving account... I’m grateful to have been given the chance to read it."

"The author has a clear sense of what they want to achieve and executes this plan with precision."

CONTACT