Poetry – Page 34 – Janet Ruth Heller

CAN POETRY BE FUNNY? Reading on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 3, 2018
Post category:Janet's Speaking Events Poetry Poetry Reading

Hear great funny poems at the “CAN POETRY BE FUNNY?” reading on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library in the Van Deusen Room on the third floor. Special guest speakers are Don Cooney, Lori Moore, Dennis White, Marshall Washington, Judy Sarkozy, Garrard McLeod, Michael Cockrell, and Bonnie Jo Campbell. This event is free and open to the public. Local poets reading their work are Jennifer Clark, Joe Gross, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Kit Almy, Janet Ruth Heller, Deborah Gang, Melanie Crow, Margaret DeRitter, Kurt Luchs, Robin Church, Alison Kennedy, and Gemma Wesolowski. This event is sponsored by Friends of Poetry. This reading is free and open to the public. The Kalamazoo Public Library’s address is 315 S. Rose St., Kalamazoo MI 49007. For more information, please e-mail Elizabeth Kerlikowske at mme642@aol.com or phone the Kalamazoo Public Library at 269-342-9837.

Treats for the Soul: Poetry, Prose, and Pastries, A Celebration of Five Women Writers on Sat. August 18 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Paw Paw

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:July 17, 2018
Post category:Autographing Books Children's Literature Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Literature Multicultural Literature Nonfiction Picture Book Poetry Poetry Reading Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators Young Adult Literature

Saturday, August 18, 2018 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.—Five Southwest Michigan women writers will read from and autograph their published books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry at All Stirred Up! at 404 E. Michigan Avenue in Paw Paw, Michigan 49079. The authors include Judith A. Rypma, Andrea England, Wilma Kahn, Janet Ruth Heller, and Miriam Bat-Ami. This reading is free and open to the public. Families are welcome. Both children's and adult books will be on sale. The five writers will explore the world of nature in its many guises. All Stirred Up! is a dessert shop that sells candy, cupcakes, chocolates, cookies, cakes, dipped pretzels, and wine. It is a sunny and welcoming new store. Its Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/allstirredup Miriam Bat-Ami is a retired WMU English professor who taught English education for over 20 years. Since retirement, she has subbed in the Van Buren schools and acted in Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, and Decatur. She has published four books for children and teens. Dear Elijah (middle grade) was a Spring Pick of the…

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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.