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Poetry Reading at the Michigan College English Association’s Conference at Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, October 25, 2014

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 21, 2014
Post category:Books Literature Poetry Reading

Saturday, October 25, 2014—Janet Heller will read “Poems from Exodus and Nature’s Olympics” from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. She will also autograph her three poetry books and How the Moon Regained Her Shape, her award-winning children’s book about bullying (Arbordale, 2006) at the Michigan College English Association Conference. Heller is the President of the Michigan College English Association. Place: Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center at 900 Oakwood St., Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

Writing Poetry about Children Is Not Overly Sentimental

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:August 10, 2014
Post category:Literature Publishing Industry

I write many poems, some about children. Important writers like Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane Yolen have published excellent books of poetry for young people. However, I find that poems about kids are now very hard to publish. Why is this so difficult?

My theory is that many editors, especially men, believe that poems about children are overly sentimental and thus unworthy of publication. (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.