A.J. Huffman has published eleven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her new poetry collections, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press), A Few Bullets Short of Home (mgv2>publishing), Butchery of the Innocent (Scars Publications) and Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink) are now available from their respective publishers and Amazon.com. She has an additional poetry collection forthcoming: A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press).
She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2300 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya.
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► A.J.'s microchaps & selected poems are available below.
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Cover: 'Hammer' by Lauri Burke
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{mooblock=First poem}
. . . i would call myself a nail,
start looking for the nearest cross to create a frame for my self- portrait of fragmentary displacement— the platinum label of breathlessness
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A.J. Huffman © 2015
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Cover art by Tom Chandler
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{mooblock=I Know What You're Afraid Of}
Your fear is that you are not
who or what they think. You may never be, and they may never know. But you do. And you are racing with no one to see who sorts it out first. Competing with yourself to win something that is not really there. To compare something that has nothing to do with you to something that has nothing to do with them. There is a danger in this dance: unknown like everything else, it is sneaking up over your left shoulder. (The one that you never check.) It is a form without a face. You cannot/will not recognize it until it is too late. And this dark stranger will beat you by years and yards to the finish. He has to. Simply because he knows where it is.
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A.J. Huffman © 2012
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