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Hekkei Huotari

What Will Martians Make of Us?

This poem is excerpted from Huotari’s chapbook OPTIMAL OR NOT. Click on the title to explore or download the free PDF chapbook.

In this poem by Heikki Huotari, an excerpt from his collection Optimal or Not, our reader-in-performance Jessica Lee interprets the grounds for a Martian visitor’s cultural confusion offered by the speaker of the poem.

To explore or download the free PDF prose poetry collection OPTIMAL OR NOT, click HERE.

About the writer: HEIKKI HUOTARI attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous literary journals, including The Florida Review and Pleiades, and in seven collections. Collections published in 2024 are Scaffold And Mirage and Acceleration Due To Gravity.

About the reader: J.L. Williams’ poetry explores memory and emotion through lyrical introspection and themes of environmental and social awareness. Her work captures tension between tenderness and unrest. She has academic publications in science and law, alongside poetry and prose featured in journals such as Wingless Dreamer and Silent Spark Press, and is a new voice in voiceover.

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