Published Poetry – Page 11 – Janet Ruth Heller

Tanka Poem about Cedar Waxwings

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 10, 2023
Post category:birdwatching birdwatching,Literary Magazines Literature Nature Poetry Published Poetry Short Poetry tanka

My tanka poem “Cedar Waxwings” appeared in the Australian journal Eucalypt #35 (December 2023) on page 26. The editor is Julie Thorndyke. Eucalypt publishes tanka (five-lined poems similar to haiku) written by authors from all over the world, including India, Canada, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United States. The journal's website is https://www.eucalypt.info/ My husband and I are birdwatchers, and we take delight in the many winged creatures who visit our yard. #tanka #poetry #cedarwaxwings #birdwatching Cedar Waxwings on a tree; photo from the website https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Birds/Cedar-Waxwing

Poem about Pamela Brown Thomas of Michigan’s Underground Railroad

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:September 28, 2023
Post category:anti-slavery dramatic monologue Literary Magazines Literature Poetry Published Poetry Underground Railroad

Panoply literary magazine recently published my poem "Pamela Brown Thomas" in its issue 25 of September 8, 2023. My poem concerns a real woman in the 1800s who helped the Underground Railroad in Schoolcraft, Michigan, and hid African Americans trying to escape slavery. My poem is a dramatic monologue from the perspective of Pamela Brown Thomas. The Editor-in-Chief of Panoply is Jeff Santosuosso. Here is the link to my poem: https://panoplyzine.com/pamela-brown-thomas-by-janet-ruth-heller/ #poetry#undergroundrailroad#antislavery#dramaticmonologue Home of Pamela and Nathan Thomas in Schoolcraft and Underground Railroad Museum--photo taken by the Schoolcraft Historical Society

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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.