Cover photo by Erin Schmerr
“Amorak Huey’s Mouth is an exploration—sometimes gentle, sometimes raucous—of one of the fundamental forces of nature: desire.”
—Molly Spencer, author of Invitatory
“The voice of Mouth is confident in its moves, sometimes breath-stopping in its leaps, by turns despairing and lusty, deeply funny, and—always—restoratively human.” —Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode
“Each line is electric, illuminating poems that extend their metaphors, believing to endure in language is to make love endure.”
—Steven Leyva, author of The Opposite of Cruelty
About Amorak Huey
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: uh-MOR-ack
Amorak Huey is author of five full-length books of poems including Mouth (Cornerstone Press, 2026) and Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-founder with Han VanderHart of River River Books, Huey teaches in the BFA and MFA programs in creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He previously taught for many years in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and before that he worked as a newspaper editor and reporter at papers in Florida, Kentucky, and Michigan.
He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2024) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. He’s also published three other chapbooks.
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, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and many other print and online journals.
