Amorak Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He is the author of three previous books of poetry and two chapbooks, as well as co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology.

Other poems by Amorak Huey in Verse Daily:
July 23, 2019:   "The Boy Who Believed in the Girl Who Did Not Believe in God" "They're supposed to be learning something about Emily Dickinson..."
December 10, 2018:   "Elegy with 'Satisfaction' Playing in the Background" "Life is assembled from the splinters and shards..."

Books by Amorak Huey:

Other poems on the web by Amorak Huey:
Many poems

Amorak Huey's Website.

Amorak Huey on Twitter.

About Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy:

"Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy is about more, of course, than dads, more than fathers and sons, though these poems are wonderfully full of them; it's a deprogramming manual, dissecting and dismantling all the rusty tropes and tales of what it means to be a man or a boy in this modern world."
—Amber Sparks

"Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy brings us all the dads: the pop culture papas, the hapless cartoon patriarchs, and the fathers of memory. Roiling with literal dad jokes and the humiliations played out on all of us, Amorak Huey's poems roast memories like barbecue until a new vision of what it is to be a man emerges. With firework honesty, Huey admits 'I cannot believe / I'm more than halfway through with this life / & still molded out of ninth-grade humiliations,' then turns the ideas of father and man around in his palm like gemstones not yet cleaned, until they begin to sparkle a little brighter."
—Dustin Parsons

"Earnest, funny, and heartbreaking, the poems in Amorak Huey's new collection explore that lonely office of fatherhood. Such work is forever searching for the appropriate formula—that clever negotiation between self-actualization and self-negation as one struggles to understand what it means to care for children in the current quotidian. The joke is that Huey knows we are raised by many voices, where the voice of these poems sings with a wisdom that is both burdened and joyful. The joke is that the answers are here, in this wonderful collection, ready to delight."
—Oliver de la Paz

"A father's body is a protean subject. In Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy, Amorak Huey catches that body, making it a vibrant, knowable thing. Huey's ambitious, brilliant poems draw a sweet but clear line between what we want and what we can hold. We may never fully apprehend a father's body, Huey warns us, but through these incredible poems, we may reach ourselves."
—Nicole Walker