2017 – Janet Ruth Heller

Article about Achievements by Entrepreneurs in 2017 includes Janet Ruth Heller

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 24, 2017
Post category:Interviews Listings in Encyclopedias and Other Platforms Literature Poetry

Janet Ruth Heller is included in the article “Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017,” now live at http://hear.ceoblognation.com/2017/12/24/26-entrepreneurs-explain-their-major-accomplishments-in-2017/ This article was posted on December 24, 2017 on the website CEO Blog Nation. Here is the paragraph about me: #5-- Revising poetry books In July 2017, I finished revising a book of nature poetry. The collection includes poetry that I have written since the late 1960s. I spent a lot of 2017 deciding which of my many poems about nature were the best, deciding on major structural divisions for the book, and arranging the poems in a logical order. I have been sending the manuscript to publishers since July. So far, I do not have any offers to publish my book; however, I will keep submitting the collection to editors and presses.

Review of No Talking by Andrew Clements

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 21, 2017
Post category:Book Review Books Children's Literature Education Fiction Language Literature Reviews

In the well written middle-grade novel No Talking, author Andrew Clements portrays a competition between the fifth-grade boys and the fifth-grade girls at Laketon Elementary School to determine which group can talk the least for 48 hours spread over three weekdays, beginning and ending with lunch period. Dave Packer gets the idea of being silent from reading about Mahatma Gandhi. In a moment of annoyance with Lynsey Burgess, Dave challenges Lynsey and the other girls to have this contest. They accept the competition. The rules allow the youngsters to use a maximum of three words if the children must respond to a teacher or other adult. During the silent days, Lynsey serves as the ringleader of the girls, while Dave leads the boys. Both children are “proud and stubborn” (chapter 5, p. 25). (more…)

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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.