Barking Moose Press

The Author, the books

Ken Poyner

Ken Poyner has published more than 2000 poems and stories, in more than 300 magazines and web sites, and collected multiple Pushcart Prize, Rhysling and other literary prize nominations. He has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Cafe Irreal, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Tuck Magazine, The Indiana Review, and many others. His work, both poetry and fiction, looks for edges to experience, dark places to jump into.

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Constant Animals

Mini-fictions. 2013. Society among birds. A man falls in love with a mouth. A glass demimondaine.

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The Book of Robot

Speculative poetry, 2016. What happens when the machines become aware of themselves?

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Victims of a Failed Civics

Speculative poetry, 2016. Broken individuals awash in an unfathomable society.

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Avenging Cartography

Speculative mini-fictions, 2017. Houses that migrate. A woman dating a spider. A village built of books.

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The Revenge of the House Hurlers

Speculative mini-fictions, 2018. Deconstruction giants. What your closet monster does when you are away. Carnivorous butterflies.

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Engaging Cattle

Speculative mini-fictions, 2019. Cattle tuning. Buying words on the black market. Genetically modified corn goes rogue.

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Stone the Monsters, or Dance

Lessons From Lingering Houses

Stone the Monsters, or Dance

Speculative poetry, 2021. A man carving his wife from a tree. A carnivorous lawn. A list of things to do on the last day of the world.

Lessons From Lingering Houses

Stone the Monsters, or Dance

Lessons From Lingering Houses

Speculative poetry, 2021. A man steeling himself to protect the house from Santa Clause. The parking lot attendant at a time portal. A woman who cavorts with dragons.