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Haiku Poems by Janet in Blithe Spirit

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 25, 2023
Post category:Haiku Literary Magazines Nature Poetry

The February 2023 issue of Blithe Spirit 33.1 has two of my haiku poems, “Crocus” and "Black Pipe." The editor is Iliyana Stoyanova, and this journal of the British Haiku Society is based in the United Kingdom. #haiku #literaryjournal #blithespirit Its website is http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/journal/ Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Darrin Goodman

Tanka Poem just published in Moonbathing

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 30, 2022
Post category:Creative Writing Literary Magazines Literature Nature Poetry Published Poetry tanka

In November, 2022, Moonbathing published my tanka poem “Moths in July" in issue #27 on page 8. The editor is Pamela A. Babusci of Rochester, New York. #tanka #womenspoetry #poetry #nature #literaryjournal Tanka poems are like haiku but are five lines long. Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

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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.