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Interview about the Poetry Book Nature’s Olympics published in The Lanthorn

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 16, 2022
Post category:Creative Writing Interviews Literature Nature Poetry Published Poetry

I taught for the English Department at Grand Valley State University from 1990 to 1997. GVSU's newspaper The Lanthorn just published Ayron Rutan and Sabrina Edwards’ interview with me about my teaching there and my new poetry book Nature’s Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021). The link is https://lanthorn.com/89309/ae/former-gv-professor-publishes-new-book/ #interview #teaching #poetry #nature #naturepoetry Cover of Janet Ruth Heller's poetry book Nature's Olympics; artwork by Lori McElrath Eslick

Interview about the poetry book Nature’s Olympics by Janet Ruth Heller

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 12, 2022
Post category:Books

Zinta Aistars interviewed me for her program Art Beat on WMUK National Public Radio station about my new book of nature poems, Nature’s Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021). Zinta is also a writer, so she asked very good questions. The link for this interview is https://www.wmuk.org/2022-03-10/art-beat-natures-olympics #poetry #nature #interview #naturepoems #haiku #freeverse #tanka #sonnet Cover of Nature's Olympics by Janet Ruth Heller; artwork by Lori McElrath Eslick

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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.