2022 – Page 3 – Janet Ruth Heller

Poems Published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes and failed haiku

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 20, 2022
Post category:Creative Writing Heaven's Gate Cult Literary Magazines Literature Love mental health Poetry Psychological Issues Published Poetry Senryu Suicide

Guest Editor Hemapriya Chellappan just published my senryu “Walnuts” in failed haiku 82 (October 2022): https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/failedhaikuissue82.pdf Also, Editors Bex O’Brian and Rebecca Johnson published my poems “Suicide in March” and “Jana Pleads with the Moon” in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes with the theme of “On Cracking” (October 2022): https://www.dorothyparkersashes.com/on-cracking-up/heavens-gate #poems #senryu #suicide #HeavensGateCult #unrequitedlove #literaryjournals #literarymagazines Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

Short Play Pledging published in Rushing Thru the Dark

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:September 27, 2022
Post category:Discrimination Drama Multicultural Literature

My one-act play Pledging has just been published in Rushing Thru the Dark by Choeofpleirn Press. The editor is Ruth J. Heflin. This short play takes only ten minutes to perform. Pledging is about two women friends who want to join sororities at Appleton College. However, they face discrimination as a Jew and an African-American. Pledging was performed at the Tritonysia Play Festival at Triton College (2017). You can purchase this issue of Rushing Thru the Dark in two ways: Choeofpleirn Press is selling the ebook version at www.choeofpleirnpress.com , and the print version is available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGKN34JR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=363WDN66IWAKV&keywords=rushing+thru+the+dark+autumn+2022&qid=1664294638&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjMwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&s=books&sprefix=rushing+thru+the+dark+autumn+2022%2Cstripbooks%2C99&sr=1-1. #drama #oneactplay #discrimination #sorority #college Sorority women photo from Bing

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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.