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Senryu published in Presence and Prune Juice and Tanka in Eucalypt

In November, 2022, Presence published my senryu poem “Passover in Michigan” in issue #74 on page 25. The editor is Ian Storr, and this journal is based in Sheffield, England. Senryu are like haiku in form, but senryu poems focus on people, while haiku focus on nature.

In December, 2022, Prune Juice published my senryu poem “Havdalah” in issue #38 at https://prunejuicesenryu.com/2022/12/19/issue-38-senryu-kyoka/  The editor is Tia Haynes.  The poems are arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name. 

Also, in November, Eucalypt published my tanka poem “Birthmark” in issue #33 on page 40. The editor is Julie Thorndyke, and this journal is based in Castle Hill, Australia. 

Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems 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).