Amorak Huey
@amorak.bsky.social
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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One of the best takeaways from my presence on this platform is poets and small presses that connect me to exceptional writing -- and, times being what they are, that sustain a positive connection to America and Americans. Thank you for your work -- I will be buying the whole lot 📚
February 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
One of the best takeaways from my presence on this platform is poets and small presses that connect me to exceptional writing -- and, times being what they are, that sustain a positive connection to America and Americans. Thank you for your work -- I will be buying the whole lot 📚
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You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.
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I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever
We have seven books coming out this month: five poetry titles and two in our new Plainwater Nonfiction Series.
What we do is small. It’s not scalable. It’s not replicable by a generative LLM. It’s born out of love for our authors and joy in the work.
Your orders and support sustain us. 🙏💙🌊
What we do is small. It’s not scalable. It’s not replicable by a generative LLM. It’s born out of love for our authors and joy in the work.
Your orders and support sustain us. 🙏💙🌊
Visit our bookshop today and preorder our spring poetry titles today—we have FIVE forthcoming by @preetivangani.bsky.social , @esylviapoet.bsky.social, @jasutherland.bsky.social, @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social, and Elane Kim! 💙📚🎉
👉 riverriverbooks.org/store/
👉 riverriverbooks.org/store/
February 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
We have seven books coming out this month: five poetry titles and two in our new Plainwater Nonfiction Series.
What we do is small. It’s not scalable. It’s not replicable by a generative LLM. It’s born out of love for our authors and joy in the work.
Your orders and support sustain us. 🙏💙🌊
What we do is small. It’s not scalable. It’s not replicable by a generative LLM. It’s born out of love for our authors and joy in the work.
Your orders and support sustain us. 🙏💙🌊
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I want to say this about J.D.’s book as well, as a lover of books broadly about place and nature, etc, as many of you are—this one will surprise you and stay with you, both for its substance and style.
GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
February 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I want to say this about J.D.’s book as well, as a lover of books broadly about place and nature, etc, as many of you are—this one will surprise you and stay with you, both for its substance and style.
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This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
Jeff Bezos' statement, his first since last week's layoffs: "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."
February 8, 2026 at 12:39 AM
This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
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love the writer, love the press, can't wait for this beautiful book...
GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
February 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
love the writer, love the press, can't wait for this beautiful book...
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It’s here! In one of its fields of origin. So grateful to @riverriverbooks.bsky.social for giving The Visible Field a home.
February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
It’s here! In one of its fields of origin. So grateful to @riverriverbooks.bsky.social for giving The Visible Field a home.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
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This book is transformative. Order it now.
GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
This book is transformative. Order it now.
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Friends, it’s so good.
GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
February 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Friends, it’s so good.
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GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
February 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM
GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
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Every time I get a new email about the Anthropic class action settlement I just want to fucking cry because it's a reminder that I (and a ton of other writers) have been excluded from even having this tiny crumb of justice because our publishers didn't take the extra step of registering copyright.
February 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Every time I get a new email about the Anthropic class action settlement I just want to fucking cry because it's a reminder that I (and a ton of other writers) have been excluded from even having this tiny crumb of justice because our publishers didn't take the extra step of registering copyright.
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Opened a beautiful new box of bookmarks last night! 🌙 With a quote from JD Ho’s Backyard Alchemy. You’ll be able to find both at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social’s table at AWP Baltimore next month 📚💙
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Opened a beautiful new box of bookmarks last night! 🌙 With a quote from JD Ho’s Backyard Alchemy. You’ll be able to find both at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social’s table at AWP Baltimore next month 📚💙
Excellent use of research skills & historical context & what art from a particular moment suggests about what's possible in that moment --
With #Bridgerton back on our screens, let's revisit a classic thread. Queen Charlotte included a scene of King George III eating pussy. So it falls upon us, dear readers, to answer the crucial question: is it historically accurate? Did King George III eat pussy?
February 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Excellent use of research skills & historical context & what art from a particular moment suggests about what's possible in that moment --
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I am not feeling well and BLESS the teen and their muscles for lifting the poetry boxes tonight, delivered after—checks my auntie’s notes—pumpkin time.
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Can’t wait to open these tomorrow! 📚💙
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Can’t wait to open these tomorrow! 📚💙
February 6, 2026 at 2:48 AM
I am not feeling well and BLESS the teen and their muscles for lifting the poetry boxes tonight, delivered after—checks my auntie’s notes—pumpkin time.
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Can’t wait to open these tomorrow! 📚💙
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Can’t wait to open these tomorrow! 📚💙
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Loving Public School Poetry contributor Amorak Huey's new collection, Mouth!
February 5, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Loving Public School Poetry contributor Amorak Huey's new collection, Mouth!
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It's not just fine but amazing to make amateur art. Humans are artmakers. You don't have to be professionalized as an artist, you don't have to make art of professional merit. Just create!
February 5, 2026 at 6:19 PM
It's not just fine but amazing to make amateur art. Humans are artmakers. You don't have to be professionalized as an artist, you don't have to make art of professional merit. Just create!
doesn't imperil that belief at all -- it 1,000 percent confirms it
The impending closure of the Kennedy Center imperils a belief that has been central to its existence: that democracy and the arts are deeply intertwined, Lily Meyer argues:
A Theory of Cultural Life That Is Under Attack
The closure of the Kennedy Center imperils a core American belief: that democracy and the arts are deeply intertwined.
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February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
doesn't imperil that belief at all -- it 1,000 percent confirms it
we plant what we want
have so little say in how it grows
... new poem in the delightful new issue of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social alongside the work of so many lovely poets. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/issue-3...
have so little say in how it grows
... new poem in the delightful new issue of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social alongside the work of so many lovely poets. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/issue-3...
February 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
we plant what we want
have so little say in how it grows
... new poem in the delightful new issue of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social alongside the work of so many lovely poets. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/issue-3...
have so little say in how it grows
... new poem in the delightful new issue of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social alongside the work of so many lovely poets. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/issue-3...
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“Most of my life, / I had consorted with the unspeakable, longing to put my mouth / on it.”
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
February 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM
“Most of my life, / I had consorted with the unspeakable, longing to put my mouth / on it.”
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
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Delighted to be in the re-launch of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social thanks to @jamesdiaz.bsky.social & all the other poets, like @lynntait.bsky.social , @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social , @amorak.bsky.social @meganmerchant.bsky.social and others! heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...
Poetry by Nancy Huggett
Cindy Shebley CC Step One (of the Twelve), 1985 In a field outside Crookston, Minnesota, my brother, me. The wideness of indigo sky—a rusty darkness like a half-ton truck parked under a...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Delighted to be in the re-launch of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social thanks to @jamesdiaz.bsky.social & all the other poets, like @lynntait.bsky.social , @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social , @amorak.bsky.social @meganmerchant.bsky.social and others! heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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February 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM