{"id":39202,"date":"2025-10-03T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=39202"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:54:26","slug":"issue-95-heikki-huotari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/issue-95-heikki-huotari\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 95: Heikki Huotari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-99b67295\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-dd3264a0\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d908e0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d908e0\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/07\/huotari-head-shot-1-785x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/07\/huotari-head-shot-1-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/07\/huotari-head-shot-1-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/07\/huotari-head-shot-1-768x1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/07\/huotari-head-shot-1-1177x1536.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/07\/huotari-head-shot-1-1569x2048.jpg 1569w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/07\/huotari-head-shot-1-scaled.jpg 1962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-04bf84a4 gb-headline-text\">About Heikki Huotari<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d8fd1a22 gb-headline-text\">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&#8217;s marathon runner. As a math professor he published research papers in math journals such as the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. His Erd\u0151s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-b621e6a1\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b621e6a1\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d4851750 gb-headline-text\">A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a9c0efb3 gb-headline-text\">Notes on &#8220;<em>my bet noire, wrong or right<\/em>&#8220;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-3357e2ab gb-headline-text\">In aligning with the scientific method I&#8217;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&nbsp;<em>my bete noire, wrong or right<\/em>&nbsp;is thus an alternative to&nbsp;<em>my desired destination, right or wrong<\/em>&nbsp;and an analysis of the random sample I&#8217;ve amassed suggests that the null hypotheses,&nbsp;<em>there&#8217;s nothing new under the sun<\/em>, ought to be rejected. It&#8217;s only an accident that the analysis was conducted during the statisticians&#8217; happy hour, or maybe that&#8217;s the surprise the interviewer prophesied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-1d3ba170 gb-headline-text\">Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Of late I&#8217;m astrally projecting then descending the front stairs, being careful to make contact with every step, or designing laughable, i.e., impossible, machines.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7e6c16e8\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7e6c16e8\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-d47361dc gb-query-loop-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-ed2ade5b gb-query-loop-item post-4778 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-featured-work\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ed2ade5b\"><a class=\"gb-container-link\" href=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/one-poem-by-paola-bruni-2\/\"><\/a>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design-652x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design-652x1024.png 652w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design-768x1206.png 768w, https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2025\/03\/Untitled-design.png 817w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/one-poem-by-heikki-huotari\/\">My Bete Noire, Wrong or Right<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gb-shapes\"><div class=\"gb-shape gb-shape-1\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 1200 211.2\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\"><path d=\"M600 188.4C321.1 188.4 84.3 109.5 0 0v211.2h1200V0c-84.3 109.5-321.1 188.4-600 188.4z\"\/><\/svg><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5678,"featured_media":39204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39252,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39202\/revisions\/39252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}