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Amorak Huey

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Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Proud union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games & ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · Aug 25

Boiled down my AI policy this semester --

I get it; AI is everywhere these days. Let this class be a bubble where it is not; where we learn by focusing on process, not product; where we embrace the friction and joy of expressing our own ideas in our own words; where we lean on our own imaginations, histories, and imperfections as we write our own imperfect human pieces.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 6h

Oh, look, a cover!

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Radiant Star

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Locati...

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 1h

🤣🤣🤣 my penpersonship is FAR from beautiful

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 2h

Do you think fountain pens would make my handwriting more beautiful?

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 2h

Bookshop has free shipping today! Find River River Book titles there 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky

Our Poetry Catalog

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 2h

Louise Glück

Vespers
I don't wonder where you are anymore.
You're in the garden; you're where John is,
in the dirt, abstracted, holding his green trowel.
This is how he gardens: fifteen minutes of intense effort,
fifteen minutes of ecstatic contemplation. Sometimes
I work beside him, doing the shade chores,
weeding, thinning the lettuces; sometimes I watch
from the porch near the upper garden until twilight makes
lamps of the first lilies: all this time,
peace never leaves him. But it rushes through me,
not as sustenance the flower holds
but like bright light through the bare tree.

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 8h

The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.

James Wright

POETRY FOUNDATION
Beginning

BY JAMES WRIGHT

The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.
There they are, the moon's young, trying Their wings.
Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely
shadow
Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she
is gone
Wholly, into the air.
I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe
Or move.
I listen.
The wheat leans back toward its own darkness, And I lean toward mine.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 8h

Editor @amorak.bsky.social is at home resting, and if you can share a poem or a book recommendation, I know he’d love it 💙🙏💐

Poetry meme from fleabag, wedding scene with both sisters, text boxes being:

Lying in bed

Lying in bed ordering poetry books

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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 13d

every AI ad is like

“hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?”

and then the phone is like

“sandwich”

and the guy is like

“wow”

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 4d

the secret is that your poems get better because you had/have to keep working

and success is a spirit & craft blunter

(you don’t want folks lining up to to publish everything you write 💙)

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 3d

Jenny George—

Fortune
Autumn, with its vivid exchanges,
streams the avenues
of an old city. The falling leaves
produce a kind of wedding.
There's a thinness to the air.
Golden cottonwoods tremble with their visions.

We walk along the street
with our shoulders nearly
touching. One of us
carries a bag of delicate pastries
wrapped in paper like sticky jewels.

Here, says the Future, that famous comic.
Here are your lives. They are yours
to live in extravagantly.

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 5d

"Walking the meadow, there is little
to want but walking, and
a meadow." -- Eireann Lorsung

Photo shows the cover of Pattern-book, by Eireann Lorsung.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 5d

🥰💙🎉

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Become mollusk. Notice when these poems crack you open.
Notice when you are reading from your soul places. Your calcified shells. Notice the
intimate irritant becoming pearl.
Mollusks chemosynthesize the radioactive isotopes of volatile earth in the broken places at the bottom of the ocean. This too is the work of these poems.
Become mollusk and notice what
changes.
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival is a Promise
Printed at
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ENCOUNTERS
FOR THE LIVING AND THE
POEMS
DEAD
JAMEELA
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DISTRIBUTION & FULFILLMENT
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d

News coverage of the Trump administration's proposed "compact" with universities has been, so far, shockingly bad.

I hate to pick on NPR reporter Elissa Nadworny, who's usually a solid reporter, but almost every important thing I heard her say this morning about the proposed "compact" was false.

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 4d

It turns out-- one way to learn things you didn't know about your family? is to write a poem about things you do know, and show it to your dad. 🤷‍♀️

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 6d

Reposting and congrats are freeee! 💙📚

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

Reminder to folks that when an author/other creative tells you that a new work is available, when you go into their comments to tell them why you're not going to get it, you look like an asshole, I'm sure your stand is principled and all that but going out of your way to tell us "no sale" is dickish

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 6d

a stuffed animal is peeking out from behind a door with the words everything ok below it

ALT: a stuffed animal is peeking out from behind a door with the words everything ok below it

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 6d

When you have nine copies of a just-published book remaining and a festival upcoming and more orders coming in and booksellers writing you and it’s a good (?) problem but it’s still a little stressful we’re just human, tbh

a muppet with red hair and a blue jacket is holding a green jar .

ALT: a muppet with red hair and a blue jacket is holding a green jar .

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 6d

This has been in my TBR pile far too long. Finally reading it & now all I want to do is make poems like these.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Excerpt from Beth Gilstrap’s forthcoming THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social, 2026!) 🌊

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 7d

“The shower floods the kitchen. Slugs come through outlets to mate on the walls and the mess of it is revelation. The voice of ancestors saying, No, love, no.”

Beth Gilstrap (@bettysueblue.bsky.social) in the new @pitheadchapel.bsky.social!

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Beth Gilstrap There is news along the Ohio River: Some days she has no idea why she moved here to live alone in a house built when her Mee-maw was still sweeping the speck of yard out front of mill…

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Oh we’re happy to see Jameela F. Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead on @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social’s Top 10 for September list! Thanks to booksellers and readers everywhere 🙏💙📚🎉

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ITASCA'S TOP I0, SEPTEMBER '25
1. Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People
- Organize the Rich - Eds. Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom
2. Your Year of Wonders - Beaver's Pond Press - Nick Tasler
3. Lucia Morning in Sweden - Nodin Press - Ewa Rydecker
4. Mistër E's Eclectic Compendium of Wondrous Hits
- Beaver's Pond Press - Elias Mondegreen
5. Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction
- Rose Metal Press - Dinty W. Moore
6. Fam: The Remarkable Story of a Canada Goose Adopted by Sandhill Cranes
- Beaver's Pond Press - Martha Harding & Gary Noren
7. Little Deaths All in a Row - Jaded Ibis Press - Elizabeth Earley
8. Beyond Grit - Wise Ink - Cindra Kamphoff
9. Encounters for the Living and the Dead - River River Books - Jameela F. Dallis
10. Hiro Doggie
- Literati Press Comics and Novels - John Eric Osborn & Charles J. Martin
Find More Great Books at www.ltascaBooks.com
ITASCA BOOKS
DISTRIBUTION & FULFILLMENT
A DIVISION OF BOOKMOBILE

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 7d

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 8d

If one were to wake up and realize that one had written, edited or approved the sentence below, the sudden desperate realization that one needed to go over—and reverse—decades of life choices would be overwhelming.

If not, one might gainfully be employed by the Gray Lady.

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 9d

Sending so much love to all the trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer readers and fans who grew up with the Wizarding World.

Millions grew up with HP and now have to deal w/ being retraumatized every single time she grabs a headline. 😡

Once, we loved her words, but she won't listen to ours.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 9d

Rowling is a huge example of “never meet your heroes.”

Her words helped me during my dad’s sudden death and my first heartbreak. As a young adult, I thought she was like me, a kindred spirit attuned to human empathy and seeking magic in the real world… but it turns out she was not like me *at all.*

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