About Heikki Huotari
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school, spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower, is a disabled veteran and was for a short time a national-class master’s marathon runner. As a math professor he published research papers in math journals such as the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. His Erdős number is 2. Since retiring from academia he has published poems in numerous literary journals, including The Florida Review, Pleiades, Spillway, the American Journal of Poetry, Willow Springs and The Journal, and in seven collections.
A Profile of the Author
Notes on “my bet noire, wrong or right“
In aligning with the scientific method I’m casting my desire as an alternate hypothesis to disprove, by hurling insults at it, or to fail to do so and be one step closer to the goal. The title of my Willow Springs poem my bete noire, wrong or right is thus an alternative to my desired destination, right or wrong and an analysis of the random sample I’ve amassed suggests that the null hypotheses, there’s nothing new under the sun, ought to be rejected. It’s only an accident that the analysis was conducted during the statisticians’ happy hour, or maybe that’s the surprise the interviewer prophesied.
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Of late I’m astrally projecting then descending the front stairs, being careful to make contact with every step, or designing laughable, i.e., impossible, machines.
