Amorak Huey is author of five books of poems including Mouth, forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2026. Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches at Bowling Green State University.

Other poems by Amorak Huey in Verse Daily:
December 16, 2024:   "For So Long, I Was Foolishly Proud of The Scar on My Thumb" "I wanted to be a man..."
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

Amorak Huey's Website.

What the House Knows
Editor: Diane Lockward
Other poems from What the House Knows in Verse Daily:
April 17, 2025:   "Ode on Paradis and the Longing for a Place that Never Was" by Barbara Hamby
April 15, 2025:   "The Holy Whispers" by Jim Daniels
April 14, 2025:   "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert" by Natalie Diaz
April 11, 2025:   "No One Told Me About the Death" by Michelle Bitting