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Poem “Annunciation” published in the Reformed Journal

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:June 25, 2025
Post category:Creative Writing Literary Magazines Literature Lyric Poetry Midrash/Exegesis Nature Nature Poetry Poetry Published Poetry Religious Poetry

My poem "Annunciation" just got published in the Reformed Journal. Also, Poetry Editor Rose Postma interviewed me for a podcast. Here are the links: the poem is https://reformedjournal.com/poetry/ and the podcast is https://reformedjournal.com/podcast/ I wrote the first draft of this poem in 1972 and recently revised it. My boyfriend had broken up with me. The "slough of despond" refers to the novel The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. #annunciation #religiouspoetry #midrash #lyricpoetry

Fireflies’ Light journal just published my haiku and senryu

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:April 13, 2025
Post category:Creative Writing Haiku Literary Magazines Lyric Poetry Nature Poetry Published Poetry Senryu Short Poetry

Editors John Han and Mason Arledge just published a haiku and a senryu that I wrote, “Hawthorn Petals” and “Warm Spring Day,” in Fireflies’ Light #31 (April 2025): pages 10 and 51. These are my first poems in this journal. The link to this issue is https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/fireflies-light/ #haiku #senryu #cancer #spring #shortpoetry Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Darrin Goodman

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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.