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Two Poems by Janet Ruth Heller Published by The Atrium

Dear Friends:

The Atrium, a literary and scholarly journal, has just published two of my poems in its spring 2016 issue online. The poems are “The Director” and “Match Point, or On Submitting a Manuscript.” “The Director” is about my former high school English teacher, who is one of the best mentors and play directors on the planet. “Match Point” uses a tennis metaphor to convey what writers experience when they submit manuscripts to editors.

The Atrium is a peer-reviewed, cross-disciplinary journal that is published each spring and fall by the English Department at the Gary campus of Ivy Tech Community College.  The link to its website is http://nwi.ivytech.edu/atrium/site/index.html  Click on “Current Issue,” and you will be able to find another link to see my poems.

Best wishes for the spring!

Janet

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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).