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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,
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook
Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for
Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in
POETRY,
The American Poetry Review,
Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Poetry Editor of
Hobart, Book Review Co-Editor of
Pleiades, and Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of
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NELSONVILLE The February session of the Spoken & Heard series hosted by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Poet Laureate of Ohio, will be held 7 p.m. Thursday at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville.
Spoken & Heard is a seasonal series of literary events featuring award-winning authors, poets and singer/songwriters from across the country.
February’s event will feature poet Allison Joseph and author Wesley Browne. To register go to stuartsoperahouse.org.
Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale, Ill., where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University.
Her poetry collection, “Confessions of a Barefaced Woman” (Red Hen Press) was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry and won the Feathered Quill Book Award.
ONLINE: Watershed Reading Series
December 14, 2020
Dorothy Chan is a poet and assistant professor of English at UW-Eau Claire.
The Arts + Literature Laboratory kicks off the poetry year 2021 with an online reading by Dorothy Chan, Ernest O. Ãgúnyẹmà and Kirwyn Sutherland streamed live on its YouTube and Facebook pages. Chan is the author of
Revenge of the Asian Woman as well as
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold and the chapbook
Chinatown Sonnets. Sutherland has been published in
American Poetry Review and elsewhere and has a chapbook,
Jump Ship. Ãgúnyẹmà has also published widely and is the editor of