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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter John Cormier

Peter John Cormier’s story begins in Brooklyn, New York, where he was born into a large family as the second oldest of seven children. Raised on Long Island, he grew up in a home where creativity and craftsmanship were part of everyday life. His mother was a gifted pianist, artist, and baker, while his father worked across several skilled professions, including carpentry, welding, farriery, and nursing.

Over the years, Peter followed a varied professional path through hospitality, sales, and healthcare, ultimately becoming a nationally certified Allied Healthcare Professional. Yet through every chapter of his life, writing remained constant.

Peter began writing poetry in his elementary school years and continued using words to make sense of the people, places, relationships, joys, disappointments, and quiet realizations that followed. His work developed into a distinctive form of expression combining the freedom of prose with rhythm, imagery, wordplay, and other traditions of poetry.

That lifelong relationship with language comes together in Rings Around The Roses, a collection shaped not by a single moment, but by decades of living, remembering, questioning, and writing.

A Lifetime of Writing

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From early poetry to compositions written across different stages of life, Peter’s body of work reflects a creative journey spanning decades.

Prosetry & Prosetic Poetry

Peter brings free-form prose and poetic technique together through rhythm, rhyme, imagery, metaphor, alliteration, and expressive wordplay.

Experience Into Expression

Memory, emotion, faith, relationships, and the people who shaped his journey provide the living foundation behind Peter’s writing.

WRITING PHILOSOPHY

Where Life Finds Its Way Into Words

Peter John Cormier writes from lived experience, allowing memory, emotion, rhythm, and imagination to meet on the page. His approach moves beyond conventional form to create writing that feels personal, expressive, and unmistakably his own.

Life Before Literature

Peter’s writing begins with experience. Love, loss, family, faith, mistakes, places, and passing years become the raw material behind words that carry the weight of having been lived.

Freedom Within The Form

Through prosetry and prosetic poetry, Peter combines the openness of prose with rhythm, rhyme, imagery, metaphor, and wordplay, giving each composition the freedom to find its own shape.

Something Worth Feeling

The purpose goes beyond clever language. Peter writes to stir recognition, reflection, and emotion, inviting readers to find something of their own lives between the lines.

BEYOND THE PAGE

Every Life Leaves Something Worth Writing Down

Peter John Cormier turns decades of memory, emotion, relationships, and reflection into words that speak to the complicated beauty of being human.