Literature – Page 36 – Janet Ruth Heller

Janet Ruth Heller’s play entitled Pledging will be performed at the Tritonysia Play Festival at Triton College in River Grove IL on May 5-7 and May 12-14, 2017

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 22, 2017
Post category:Discrimination Drama Historical Fiction Literature Performances of plays

Janet Ruth Heller’s short play entitled Pledging will be performed at the Tritonysia Play Festival at Triton College on May 5-7 and May 12-14, 2017. Triton College is located at 2000 5th Ave., River Grove, Illinois 60171. The performances will be in the Cox Auditorium in the Fine Arts Building, J108, on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 2 p.m. The festival director is Sommer Austin. (more…)

Bonnie Ferrante’s review of my chapter book The Passover Surprise and her interview with me about The Passover Surprise and my fiction picture book How the Moon Regained Her Shape

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 29, 2017
Post category:Book Review Books Bullying Chapter Book Children's Literature Jewish Families Jewish Traditions Literature Multicultural Literature Picture Book Reviews Sibling Rivalry

Recently, author and blogger Bonnie Ferrante reviewed my fiction chapter book The Passover Surprise and also interviewed me about The Passover Surprise and my fiction picture book How the Moon Regained Her Shape. The title of her review is “How Do You Deal with an Unfair Father?” In this essay about The Passover Surprise, Ferrante praises the book and writes, “Children will connect with Lisa and find helpful advice on how to approach difficult discussions with their own parents.” (more…)

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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.