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Four Unique Collections Hosted by the Ladies’ Library of Kalamazoo on Friday, March 1, 2019 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 25, 2019
Post category:Art Exhibits Collections Ladies' Library in Kalamazoo

Friday, March 1, 2019, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 333 South Park Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007— The Ladies' Library Association (LLA) hosts a display of four unique collections. Browse through a bit of history featuring M & M Dispensers collected by Dick Baker, 1940 to 1960 Presidential Campaign Buttons and Stickers collected by Michael Krischer, Little Buildings collected by Deb Killarney, and Clothespins collected by Barb Baker. Collectors will be present to answer questions. This event is free and open to the public. The LLA’s mission is to enrich the community through literacy, arts, and culture, and to preserve the Ladies’ Library and its history. Visit our website at http://www.ladieslibrarykzoo.org for information.

My poem “The Ladies’ Library in Kalamazoo” is in the March 2018 issue of Encore magazine

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 27, 2018
Post category:Ladies' Library in Kalamazoo Poetry Published Poetry

My poem "The Ladies' Library in Kalamazoo" is in the March 2018 issue of Encore magazine. Next to the poem is a photo of the Aurora Leigh stained glass window in the Ladies' Library (built from 1878 to 1879). My poem focuses a lot on that window and the feminist epic poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning published in 1856 that the window celebrates. I am now the President of the Ladies' Library Association.

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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.