empathy – Janet Ruth Heller

Article about Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio published in MidAmerica

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 28, 2025
Post category:Criticism empathy Fiction Literature Love mental health Psychological Issues scholarly articles

My article “Multiple Awakenings in Sherwood Anderson’s Story ‘An Awakening’” just appeared in MidAmerica, volume 51 (2024) on pages 43-53. I used to teach this story from the book Winesburg, Ohio to my undergraduate English composition and literature students at Northern Illinois University. The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature publishes MidAmerica, and the editor is Patricia Oman. Patricia and other members of the editorial board made some very helpful suggestions for revising my article. My essay will eventually get posted on the website of the SSML, https://ssml.org/ #genderroles #insight #power #traditionalnorms #psychologicalissues #grotesque #Repression Cover of Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

“Offerings” poem published in Amethyst Review

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 17, 2024
Post category:Creative Writing empathy Literature Multicultural Literature Poetry Published Poetry Travel

Today, Amethyst Review, a literary magazine focused on spirituality, published my poem “Offerings.” The poem concerns a visit that my husband and I made to the shrine of San Xavier del Bac near Tucson, Arizona. I had been trying to publish this poem for about twenty years. I’m glad that editor Sarah Law appreciated my work. The link to my poem is https://amethystmagazine.org/ #sisterhood #poetry #VirginMary #offerings #Amerindians #worship Photo of the shrine of San Xavier del Bac near Tucson AZ

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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.