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Article about “Best Guest Speakers for your Event”

Estienne de Beer has included my comments about “Best Guest Speakers for your Event” in her article.  You can find this article at

https://www.meerkat-motivational-speaker.co.za/personal-development-resources/best-guest-speakers/

Here are some of my comments.

Guest speakers include authors of important books, college professors with expertise in an area of interest to a business or organization, travelers who have great photos of exotic places, actors who present parts of dramas or other works of literature, musicians or artists who share their work, heads of local organizations who have activities of interest to your group, etc. 

Some speakers educate members of an organization, while other speakers simply entertain the group. 

Janet Ruth Heller speaking 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).