Amorak Huey: On Stalling Out After Publication
Poet Amorak Huey hit a creative roadblock after publishing his latest poetry collection Dad Jokes From Late in the Patriarchy. He shares his cure (and more!) in this article.
Author:
Amorak Huey’s fourth book of poems is
Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook
Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and the chapbook
Slash / Slash (Diode Editions, 2021), Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His work has appeared in
The Best American Poetry,
American Poetry Review,
Today
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Tonight
Partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms before midnight. A few storms may be severe. Low 62F. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Updated: May 14, 2021 @ 2:31 am
Grand Rapids Business Journal
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Born in a mud hut in central Africa and given only a day to live due to disease and malnutrition, Graci Harkema has walked a long road to her current position.
Harkema is founder of the newly minted, Grand Rapids-based speaking; consulting; and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leadership training firm Graci LLC.
She left her previous position as Founders Brewing Companyâs inaugural diversity and inclusion director on Oct. 25 over what she described as Foundersâ failure to listen to her feedback and counsel as the company sought to âincrease (its) reputation in diversity and inclusion and regain the trust of the LGBTQ and people of color communitiesâ in the midst of former Detroit taproom employee Tracy Evansâ lawsuit accusing the brewery of racial discrimination.