2016 – Page 5 – Janet Ruth Heller

Janet Ruth Heller Speaks on a Panel about Recent Multicultural Literature for Children on Friday, October 21, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 16, 2016
Post category:Books Children's Literature Conference Presentations Fiction Historical Fiction Humanities Janet's Speaking Events Literature Multicultural Literature Nonfiction Picture Book Poetry

Friday, October 21, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.—Janet Ruth Heller will be speaking on a panel about Recent Multicultural Literature for Children at the joint conference of the Michigan College English Association and the Michigan Writing Centers Association at Macomb Community College, 14500 E. 12 Mile Road, Building K, Warren MI 48088-3896. Janet’s presentation is “Recent Multicultural Books for Children about Jews and People of Color.” Also on the panel are Brynne Barnes, speaking about “The Importance of Multicultural Picture Books for Children” and Jennifer Burd, speaking about “Children's Books about Poverty and Homelessness.” To register for this conference, please go to the website https://sites.google.com/site/mwcaconference/2014-mwca-conference-information

CAN POETRY BE FUNNY? Reading on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 5, 2016
Post category:Humanities Janet's Speaking Events Literature Poetry Poetry Reading

Hear great funny poems at the “CAN POETRY BE FUNNY?” reading on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library. Special guest speakers are Don Cooney, Lori Moore, Joanna Parzakonis, Joe Gross, Rev. Ruth Moerdyk, Mike Helms, Garrard McLeod, Dean Hauck, and Michael Cockrell. This event is free and open to the public. Local poets reading their work are Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jennifer Clark, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Kit Almy, Lynn Pattison, Janet Heller, Elizabeth Clem, Marion Boyer, and Deborah Gang. This reading is sponsored by Friends of Poetry. The Kalamazoo Public Library’s address is 315 S. Rose St., Kalamazoo MI 49007. For more information, please e-mail Elizabeth Kerlikowske at mme642@aol.com or phone the Kalamazoo Public Library at 269-342-9837.

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.