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Poems accepted for publication in Ribbons, Verse-Virtual, and Eucalypt

Recently, three different literary magazines have published my poems.  Editor Susan Weaver of the tanka journal Ribbons published my poem “Sunset Landscape” in the spring/summer 2022 issue. I originally wrote this as a quatrain in 1976, but I recently revised it into a tanka, which resembles haiku but is five lines long instead of three.

Editor Julie Thorndike of Eucalypt, another tanka journal, published my poem “Spontaneity” in issue 32. This literary magazine is based in Australia.

Editor Jim Lewis of Verse-Virtual published three longer poems: “Bamboo Shoot,” “Warm Autumn in Michigan,” and “Tashlich” in the May 2022 issue. https://www.verse-virtual.org/2022/May/heller-janet-ruth-2022-may.html

I’m very grateful to all of these editors for their interest in my work.

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Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra
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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).