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Janet Ruth Heller will read a poem about the Ladies Library at the Artifactory Poetry Reading and Kalamazoo Area History Event on Sunday February 28, 2016

Sunday, February 28, 2016 from 1:30 to 3 p.m.–Artifactory:  Poems about Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo History at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum–Local writers will read poems about items in the Kalamazoo Valley Museum collections, the Kalamazoo area, and regional history. Kalamazoo Valley Museum curator Tom Dietz will comment on the poems, give details about Kalamazoo history, and show slides of relevant artifacts.  Attendees will receive a free booklet of the poems.  Writers reading their work include Linda Cook MacDonald, Mac McCurkan, Jill Doster Marcusse, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Melanie Dunbar, Janet Ruth Heller, Robert Ed Post, Laura Stahlhut, Caroline Wolf, Arianna Forsman, Wren Ashley, Erin Isola, Brianna Price, Kaitlyn Barnes, Alexandra Katsma, Molly Long, Gabby Katsma, Eriq Eichinger, and Alex Perez.  Themes of the poems are the Egyptian mummy, the turbulent sea exhibit, Lincoln’s desk, Zoe-Phora, justice, and armor.  Artifactory will take place in the Mary Jane Stryker Theater of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum at 230 N. Rose St. in Kalamazoo, Michigan 49003.  This event is co-sponsored by Friends of Poetry, and this reading is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Elizabeth Kerlikowske at 269-343-4003 or mme642@aol.com

Janet Heller_ Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic

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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).