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 is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024). Huey is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and his poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series.

Other poems by Amorak Huey in Verse Daily:
February 14, 2024:   "Love Poem" "To touch — to ask to be touched — it is everything. It is the world...."
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

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