Robin Chapman, Professor Emerita of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is a poet and a researcher on children’s language development and disorders. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos, with physicist J. C. Sprott (World Scientific, 2005), and the eelgrass meadow (Tebot Bach, 2011). She once helped cause a traffic ticket for speeding by heatedly discussing the difference between poetry and prose with a friend who was driving.