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Artifactory Poetry Reading on Sunday, October 20 at 1 p.m. at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center in Kalamazoo, MI

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 3, 2019
Post category:Janet's Speaking Events Poetry Poetry Reading

Twelve poets will be reading for Artifactory on October 20, 2019 at 1 p.m. at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center at 1650 Oakland Drive in Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5307. The following writers will present work about important places connected to the history of Kalamazoo, Schoolcraft, and other cities in Southwest Michigan: Kathy Rabbers, Robin Church, Robert Post, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Nancy Hoy Nott, Jennifer Clark, Elaine M. Seaman, Jill Doster Marcusse, Janet Ruth Heller, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Ruth Moerdyk, and Margaret DeRitter. Janet Ruth Heller will read her poem "Pamela Brown Thomas," which concerns a woman in Schoolcraft who was active in the Underground Railroad that helped former slaves escape to freedom in the 1800s. Historians Sharon Carlson and Lynn Houghton will comment on the unique sites mentioned in the poetry. The sponsor of Artifactory is Friends of Poetry. Its Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofpoetry/ Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry; photo by Hedy Habra

Janet Ruth Heller’s poem “Elegy for Freda” published in the Mizmor Anthology of 2019

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:July 20, 2019
Post category:Poetry Published Poetry

My poem "Elegy for Freda" has just been published in the Mizmor Anthology: 2019 Poetry Edition by Poetica Publishing (page 30). This anthology appeared in print in December, 2019, and interested people can purchase this book from Poetica Publishing. The editors are Michal Mahgerefteh and David King. The poem is about Freda Blumenthal, a good friend of my mother-in-law, may their memories be a blessing, and of the family. I'm very happy to have found such a good home for my poem. Photo of Janet Ruth Heller taken 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.