2019 – Page 2 – Janet Ruth Heller

Artifactory Poetry Reading on Sunday, October 20 at 1 p.m. at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center in Kalamazoo, MI

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 3, 2019
Post category:Janet's Speaking Events Poetry Poetry Reading

Twelve poets will be reading for Artifactory on October 20, 2019 at 1 p.m. at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center at 1650 Oakland Drive in Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5307. The following writers will present work about important places connected to the history of Kalamazoo, Schoolcraft, and other cities in Southwest Michigan: Kathy Rabbers, Robin Church, Robert Post, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Nancy Hoy Nott, Jennifer Clark, Elaine M. Seaman, Jill Doster Marcusse, Janet Ruth Heller, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Ruth Moerdyk, and Margaret DeRitter. Janet Ruth Heller will read her poem "Pamela Brown Thomas," which concerns a woman in Schoolcraft who was active in the Underground Railroad that helped former slaves escape to freedom in the 1800s. Historians Sharon Carlson and Lynn Houghton will comment on the unique sites mentioned in the poetry. The sponsor of Artifactory is Friends of Poetry. Its Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofpoetry/ Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry; photo by Hedy Habra

Michigan College English Association’s conference on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at Michigan State University

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:August 18, 2019
Post category:Books

Please join us for the Michigan College English Association's conference on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The conference themes are “Borders, Walls, and Bridges.” Our featured luncheon speaker is Dennis Hinrichsen, the Lansing Poet Laureate. We are looking for papers about literature; composition; pedagogy; film; linguistics; technical writing; race, class, cultural, and gender studies; classroom management; evaluation; research; on-line instruction; and union/administration issues, as well as readings of creative writing. Proposals are due by September 24, 2019. Please send your name, university affiliation if any, e-mail address, audio-visual requests, time preference, and a 200-word abstract or sample of creative writing to Joyce Meier and Cheryl Caesar, Program Chairs, via email at meierjo@msu.edu and caesarc@msu.edu . To submit a panel proposal, please include the information for all members (4 maximum participants) in the same proposal. The 2019 Registration Form is at https://michigancea.org/2019/06/29/registration-form-for-the-sat-october-5-2019-conference-of-the-michigan-college-english-association/The 2019 Call for Papers is at https://michigancea.org/2019/05/01/call-for-papers-michigan-college-english-association-conference-on-saturday-october-5-2019/ Please note that our new MCEA website is http://michigancea.org/

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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.