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Wipf and Stock just published Nature’s Olympics, a book of nature poems

Wipf and Stock has just published my new book of nature poems entitled Nature’s Olympics.  Nature’s Olympics is a book of concise poems about plants, animals, and birds in wilderness areas and in cities.  This book focuses on the flora and fauna of the Midwest.  Nature’s Olympics has four sections dedicated to the different seasons:  Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring.  Poetic forms include haiku, tanka, sonnets, and free verse.  Like many writers, I find that the natural world inspires insight into human life.  Nature’s Olympics has an accessible style and approach to poetry.  Also, this book includes some poems about the intersection of political issues, feminism, and religion with nature.  Lori McElrath Eslick did the cover art, and Keith Everett Jones designed the book.

Here is a link to the book.  https://wipfandstock.com/9781666730739/natures-olympics/

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Cover for Nature’s Olympics; artist is Lori McElrath Eslick
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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).