Let's make this birthday one to remember.

84 years old (Born on November 01, 1940)

Happy birthday to the endlessly talented and perpetually poetic William Helmuth Heyen! From mastering powerful imagery in *Shoah Train* to letting imagination soar with prehistoric flair in *Pterodactyl Rose*, your literary inventions never cease to impress. You've conquered publications spanning from Poetry magazine's elegant pages, through The New Yorker's iconic wit, all the way into American Poetry Review's thoughtful domain—clearly you're writing circles around us mere mortals!

As another year arrives (older but clearly not fossilized yet!), may you continue scoring curiously rhymed successes, polishing metaphors until they gleam brightly enough for professors everywhere. Cheers—to poems that withstand time better than we do!