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The Manhattanville Review just published a poem about sexual harassment by Janet Ruth Heller

On May 6, 2018, The Manhattanville Review published my poem “To a Man on the Greyhound Bus,” which I wrote in 1978.  I had been sending it out to editors for four decades.  The poem concerns sexual harassment.  Because many people have trouble dealing with this issue, it took forty years for me to find editors who understand the importance of the subject.

I’m glad that I did not lose confidence in this poem.  I guess that persistence pays off.
The link to this poem is http://www.themvillereview.com/to-a-man-on-the-greyhound-bus
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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).