Published Poetry – Page 2 – Janet Ruth Heller

Tanka Poem about Cedar Waxwings

Author: Janet Ruth Heller December 10, 2023

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,…
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Poem about Pamela Brown Thomas of Michigan’s Underground Railroad

Author: Janet Ruth Heller September 28, 2023

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…
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“Cottonwood Seeds” published in Ribbons

Author: Janet Ruth Heller July 26, 2023

My tanka poem “Cottonwood Seeds” recently appeared in Ribbons 19.2 (Spring/Summer 2023) on page 42. The Tanka Society of America publishes Ribbons, and the editor is Susan Weaver. Tanka resemble haiku, but tanka are five lines long, so this format…
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