Beverly Matherne (’94): U.P. Poet Laureate Beverly Matherne is professor emerita of English at Northern Michigan University, where she directed the Master of Fine Arts Program and served as poetry editor of Passages North literary magazine. She is the author of seven bilingual books of poetry; her latest, Potions d’amour, thés, incantations / Love Potions, Teas, Incantations, from Harvard Square Press, was launched at the Great Lakes Poetry Festival in Marquette on April 26, 2023. Beverly has published widely in journals and reviews such as Great River Review, Metamorphoses, Plat Valley Review, Runes, Spillway, Western Humanities Review, and Verse as well as a host of Francophone publications, including Ancrages, Éloizes, Feux chalins, Feux follets, Language et Créativité, and Résonance. Her latest anthology publication, in which her award-winning poem “Pink Geraniums” appears, is Universal Oneness: An Anthology of Magnum Opus Poems from Around the World. beverlymatherne.com