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Article about the Poetry of Award-Winning Writer Lisel Mueller

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 9, 2025
Post category:Literature Lyric Poetry Midwestern Literature Nature Nature Poetry Poetry scholarly articles scholarly articles about creative writing by Janet Ruth Heller

My article “What Is Midwestern about the Poetry of Lisel Mueller?” appears in Midwestern Miscellany 53.1 (Spring 2025) on pages 1-10. This is a special issue devoted to the work of Lisel Mueller, whose book Alive Together won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1997. The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature publishes Midwestern Miscellany. Linda Nemec Foster edited this issue. https://ssml.org/ #poetry #midwesternliterature #liselmueller #naturepoetry #societyforthestudyofmidwesternliterature Photo of Lisel Mueller

Poems in the anthology Covenant of Justice

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:April 28, 2025
Post category:Anthology Collections Creative Writing Jewish Poetry Lyric Poetry Multicultural Literature Poetry Psychological Issues Published Poetry

My poems “A Woman Prophet” and “The Bond of Gratitude” just appeared in the anthology Covenant of Justice: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations from Women of Reform Judaism, Boston: Women of Reform Judaism and the CCAR Press, 2025 on pages 4 and 96. This collection features writing by many women. The book is unusual in not putting authors' names next to their poems and not including any biographical statements or even listing authors' websites. While I like the idea of a collective women's anthology, I also believe that writers' individual voices are important too. Edit Image Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Diane Joy Schmidt

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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.