About the Author
Betsy Hearne is a professor emerita at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (ehearne@illinois.edu). Among the
books she has published are, most recently, Hauntings: Tales of
Danger, Love, and Sometimes Loss (2007) for young people and, for
adults, A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women’s Lives
(2009), co-edited with Roberta Seelinger Trites. Please visit http://www.press.uillinois.edu/narrativecompass/.
Hearne’s book Seven Brave Women won the Jane Addams
Children’s Book Award. Her academic website is at
http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~ehearne/.
In slightly different versions, six poems reproduced here first appeared in Betsy Hearne’s Love Lines: Poetry in Person (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1987): “Love Lines,” “Doctor,” “Gifts,” “Song,” “Memorial Day DC-10,” and “Perennial.” Nine poems were published in the author’s Polaroid and Other Poems of View (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1991): “Swans,” “Starfish,” “Lakeside Haiku Cycle,” “Haiku at Sea,” “Things,” “Manly Mythology,” “Penelope,” “Story Born,” and “Rabbit.” “Flight” was published in The Horn Book Magazine, May/June 2005. All poems are © Betsy Hearne, 2009.
Thanks to Elizabeth M. Claffey for her photograph of the Crown
Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park, http://www.elizabethclaffey.com/.
Website design by Kate Quealy-Gainer.
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