Han VanderHart (Of Larks, Genealogy and Truth as a Poetics, and the Line) with Guest Host Amorak Huey
05/18/25 • 53 min
Today's episode of Of Poetry is hosted by Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack), the author of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021).
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Purchase: Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025)
Read: "Larks" at Poetry Daily
Han VanderHartis a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection, Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), was selected by Chanda Feldman as winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Han is also the author of the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) and has essays and poetry published in Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry Podcast and, alongside Amorak Huey, co-edits the poetry press River River Books.
Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack) is the author of four books of poems including 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 at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2024) and Slash/Slash (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. 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, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and many other print and online journals.
Reading Recommendations:
The Dream of Reason by Jenny George
Robert Pinsky, Sounds of Poetry
James Longenbach, The Lyric Now
The Poet in the World by Denise Levertov
"Bewilderment" (essay) by Fanny Howe
Today's episode of Of Poetry is hosted by Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack), the author of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021).
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Purchase: Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025)
Read: "Larks" at Poetry Daily
Han VanderHartis a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection, Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025), was selected by Chanda Feldman as winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Han is also the author of the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) and has essays and poetry published in Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry Podcast and, alongside Amorak Huey, co-edits the poetry press River River Books.
Amorak Huey (uh-MOR-ack) is the author of four books of poems including 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 at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He also is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2024) and Slash/Slash (2021), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. 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, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and many other print and online journals.
Reading Recommendations:
The Dream of Reason by Jenny George
Robert Pinsky, Sounds of Poetry
James Longenbach, The Lyric Now
The Poet in the World by Denise Levertov
"Bewilderment" (essay) by Fanny Howe
Previous Episode
Karl Knights (Of Directness, the Music of Ordinary Language, and Writing Disability Poetics While Existing All Year)
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin" (Poetry Magazine)
Purchase: Kin by Karl Knights (Winner of the New Poets Prize, 2022)
Karl Knights’s poems, critical essays, and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Dark Horse, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, Kin, (2022) was published by The Poetry Business. Knights is a Zoeglossia fellow and won a 2021 New Poets Prize. He lives in Suffolk, England.
Recommended Reading
Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities, ed. Kobus Moolman (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: 2010)
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, eds. Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen (Cinco Puntos Press: 2011)
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, ed. Raymond Luczak (Squares & Rebels: 2015)
Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, eds. Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman (Nine Arches Press: 2017)
Imaginary Safe House, eds. Shane Neilson, Roxanna Bennett & Ally Fleming (Frog Hollow Press: 2019)
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