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Three Articles Analyze Exodus Poems by Janet Ruth Heller

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 3, 2020
Post category:Books Midrash/Exegesis Poetry Published Poetry scholarly articles about creative writing by Janet Ruth Heller

Prof. Anat Koplowitz-Breier has written three scholarly articles that include analysis of my poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) about women in the Bible. She discusses my poems "Leah," "Lot's Wife," and “Yiftach’s Daughter." Her article "Modernizing Leah" discusses many contemporary women writers' depiction of Leah (Women's Studies 47:5 [2018]: pp. 527-540. Koplowitz-Breier's new article will analyze different writers' views of Lot's wife (forthcoming in Literature and Theology). Her article "A Nameless Bride of Death" discusses five different women writers' portrayal of Jephthah’s daughter (Open Theology 6 [2020]: pp. 1-14. I'm thrilled that she admires my poems and analyzes them so thoroughly. Cover of Janet Ruth Heller's poetry book Exodus

Three Authors of Books for Children Autographing at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids MI on Thursday, December 12, 2019 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 12, 2019
Post category:Autographing Book Fairs Books Bullying Chapter Book Children's Literature Fiction Multicultural Literature Picture Book Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

Parent Shop Night on Thursday, December 12, 2019 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Meet Michigan children's book authors Janet Ruth Heller, Jayne M. Rose-Vallee, and Kenneth Kraegel! Their books will be available for purchase and autographing. Janet will be autographing her books How the Moon Regained Her Shape, which is an award-winning picture book about bullying, and The Passover Surprise, which is a middle-grade chapter book about sibling rivalry. Jayne will be autographing her award-winning picture book Dinosaurs Living in My Hair. Kenneth will be signing his award-winning picture books King Arthur's Very Great Grandson and Green Pants. Location: Schuler Books at 2660 28th St., S.E, in Grand Rapids MI 49512. The bookstore’s phone is 616-942-2561. Its website is https://www.schulerbooks.com/ Cover of How the Moon Regained Her Shape; artist is Ben Hodson

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.