William Huhn is a chemist and a graduate of Vassar College. He lives in Piermont, NY. His poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Verse Daily, Talking River Review, 34th Parallel, and elsewhere. His first full-length collection, Bachelor Holiday, appeared in July 2024 from BlazeVOX. This collection was a finalist in American Book Fest's 2024 Best Book Award for Poetry. Kirkus Reviews recently put Bachelor Holiday on its recommendation list and gave it a Kirkus Star. Huhn's narrative essays have been listed eight times as a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays series, and he is presently completing the final edits on a biography of his grandmother, Henrietta Seiberling, a cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Other poems by William Huhn in Verse Daily:
July 27, 2017:   "Expedition" "The friends I lost would not..."

Other poems on the web by William Huhn:
"Cast In Herculaneum"

William Huhn's Website.

About Bachelor Holiday:

"William Huhn, in a wonderfully supple and natural idiom, turns out to be the Ovid of our present milieu. His poems observe, and tenderly participate in, metamorphoses that signal miraculous events transpiring right before our eyes, if only our eyes were as keen and clear as his. Bachelor Holiday is a collection that makes me grateful, and almost glad, to be living in this havoc of a century."
—Donald Revell

"William Huhn's Bachelor Holiday is a bittersweet, multi-dimensional recollection—of past loves, historical mysteries, moments of weather, of philosophical obsession—whose subject range and command of language dazzles. Here 'stuff' exists confidently near a 'dew-pearled spring,' while four-line poems match the strength of 7-pagers. This is a journey through an acquisitive, though unhurried, mind, one within which any reader would be lucky to spend time."
—Rachel Abramowitz

"The precise, evocative poems in William Huhn's Bachelor Holiday bring us to places we've never been, then bring us back to where we are today. We witness the riches of Babylonia and Herculaneum, and then we are home, shutting the windows as a thunderstorm hits. Along the way, the speaker guides us with an artist's eye for detail and a poet's sense of language. My favorite among the many jewellike lyrics is 'Expedition,' about a difficult ascent, the loss of friends, and a final rebirth. These poems will lift and transport..."
—Thaddeus Rutkowski