Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Other poems by Amorak Huey in Verse Daily:
August 2, 2023:   "At the Bar" "Just buzzy enough to say without thinking I use my mouth a lot..."
March 3, 2022:   "So Far from That River, We Listen to a Single Storm from Opposite Sides" "Late; pouring; thunder and longing crawl in through a window..."
September 25, 2021:   "Fairy Tale" "My father cuts off his thumb with a circular saw...."
June 26, 2021:   "Childhood Goes Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Gun" "We keep waiting to wake up & know what we're doing..."
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..."

Other poems on the web by Amorak Huey:
Many poems

Amorak Huey's Website.

Amorak Huey on Twitter.

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June 15, 2023:   "Spin-the-Globe Charades" by John A. Nieves
November 14, 2022:   "Heredity" by CD Eskilson
November 9, 2022:   "Subway Elegy" by Nan Cohen
March 7, 2022:   "Against Heaven" by Kemi Alabi
February 28, 2022:   "A Brief History of the War" by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
December 19, 2020:   "The Comedian" by Michael Bazzett
December 18, 2020:   "Night Coyote" by Tennessee Hill
December 17, 2020:   "Elegy Begun in July" by Becka McKay
April 26, 2020:   "The Decision" by Jen Givhan
April 25, 2020:   "The wovenness" by Carol Ann Davis
April 24, 2020:   "Word Problem" by Adam Tavel
May 25, 2019:   "Diorama (woman given all the children)" Catie Rosemurgy
May 24, 2019:   "The Lesson" Helena Mesa
March 1, 2019:   "The Minnesota State Fair's Miracle of Birth Center, sponsored by Subaru" J. Bailey Hutchinson
February 27, 2019:   "If I Could, or Poem Against the Crumbling of the Republic" Joe Wilkins
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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