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CAN POETRY BE FUNNY? Reading on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library

Hear great funny poems at the “CAN POETRY BE FUNNY?” reading on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library. Special guest speakers are Don Cooney, Lori Moore, Joanna Parzakonis, Joe Gross, Rev. Ruth Moerdyk, Mike Helms, Garrard McLeod, Dean Hauck, and Michael Cockrell. This event is free and open to the public. Local poets reading their work are Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jennifer Clark, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Kit Almy, Lynn Pattison, Janet Heller, Elizabeth Clem, Marion Boyer, and Deborah Gang. This reading is sponsored by Friends of Poetry. The Kalamazoo Public Library’s address is 315 S. Rose St., Kalamazoo MI 49007.  For more information, please e-mail Elizabeth Kerlikowske at mme642@aol.com or phone the Kalamazoo Public Library at 269-342-9837.

Janet Reading Her Poems at the Kalamazoo Public Library on December 5, 2014

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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).