Norman R. Hane, 84, of Forest Park, died on Jan. 23, 2024. Born in Oak Park, he attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, graduating in 1961. He earned his PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago in 1968 and taught American literature at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, for 24 years. A poet as well as a teacher, he published a book-length collection of his work, Riding into the Solstice, with River Oak Press in 1994 and an award-winning chapbook, Outliving, with The Ledge Press in 2015. His work has also appeared in The Spoon River Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Poet and Critic, Poetry East and other literary journals. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Croft Hane. The couple lived in Oak Park from 1992 to 2021, then moved to Forest Park.