"Silver Hill" Rosebud #68, Winter-Spring 2021. "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays 2022.
"The Pagadder" Pembroke Magazine, Spring 2019. Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2020. Honorable Mention in 47th New Millennium Writings Awards, July 2019.
"Grave Ivy” Flint Hills Review #22, August 2017. Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018.
“You Forgot These,” Thema, November 2015. Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2016. Honorable Mention in the 36th New Millennium Writings Awards, 2013.
“I Know You Rider” Jabberwock Review, Summer 2011. Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2012. Nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
Essay republished in Thema, Spring 2012.
“The Call of the Child” Seems No. 38, Summer 2005. Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2006. Nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
“My Girlfriend’s Grave” Tulane Review, Spring 2004. Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2005.
“The Triple Crown" Sport Literate, 2003 issue. Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2004. Also anthologized in Game, July 2023, the anthology of Sport Literate magazine's best prose works over 25 years.
"...exceptionally brilliant and even virtuosic prose..."
—Robert Boyers, award-winning author and Founding Editor of Salmagundi
Narrative Essays
"William Huhn, in a wonderfully supple and natural idiom, turns out to be the Ovid of our present milieu. His poems observe, and tenderly participate in, metamorphoses that signal miraculous events transpiring right before our eyes, if only our eyes were as keen and clear as his. Bachelor Holiday is a collection that makes me grateful, and almost glad, to be living in this havoc of a century."
—Donald Revell, author of White Campion and twice Winner of the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry
Praise for Bachelor Holiday
"William Huhn’s Bachelor Holiday is a bittersweet, multi-dimensional recollection—of past loves, historical mysteries, moments of weather, of philosophical obsession—whose subject range and command of language dazzles. Here 'stuff' exists confidently near a 'dew-pearled spring,' while four-line poems match the strength of 7-pagers. This is a journey through an acquisitive, though unhurried, mind, one within which any reader would be lucky to spend time."
---Rachel Abramowitz, author of The Birthday of the Dead, winner of the 2021 Marystina Santiestevan poetry prize
"The precise, evocative poems in William Huhn’s Bachelor Holiday bring us to places we’ve never been, then bring us back to where we are today. We witness the riches of Babylonia and Herculaneum, and then we are home, shutting the windows as a thunderstorm hits. Along the way, the speaker guides us with an artist’s eye for detail and a poet’s sense of language. My favorite among the many jewellike lyrics is 'Expedition,' about a difficult ascent, the loss of friends, and a final rebirth. These poems will lift and transport..."
—Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Safe Colors and Haywire, a No.1 best-seller on Small Press Distribution's fiction list
Selected Poems
“Expedition” Verse Daily; July 27, 2017. Originally published in The Carolina Quarterly, 66.3, Spring/Summer 2017
"The Owl" The Carolina Quarterly, 66.3, Summer 2017
“Not a Through Street” Tipton Poetry Journal #55, Winter 2023
"Cast in Herculaneum" Grey Sparrow Journal #38, July 2021
“Bye Love You” Whistling Shade, Spring-Summer 2020