Dr. Chase Cormier

Chase Cormier holds a PhD in Francophone Studies from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he also served as editor of Feux Follets, an in-house review of creative writing and visual art from 2018 to 2023. His research examines literary trends in Francophone North America, with a particular interest in Louisiana French literature and food. He is the founder and host of Louisiane en vers, a bilingual podcast that explores current poetic trends in Louisiana and pays special attention to the therapeutic role of poetry in the region by responding to intergenerational trauma with community healing.

 

Chase Cormier’s poetry and prose have appeared in Feux Follets, The Southwestern Review, and Revue Ancrages. His first book, Mal (Éditions Perce-Neige, 2024), offers an auto-fictive, fragmented take on butchering, masculinity, Cajun identity, Louisiana French(es), and the (dis)connections between past and present, memory and experience, speech and silence. He prefers to write in the present tense while beckoning readers to walk the brackish borders between real and fiction. Chase’s poetry responds to poetic trends in Louisiana and points to the endurance and fragility of French as it lives on a sinking delta.