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Three Articles Analyze Exodus Poems by Janet Ruth Heller

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 3, 2020
Post category:Books Midrash/Exegesis Poetry Published Poetry scholarly articles about creative writing by Janet Ruth Heller

Prof. Anat Koplowitz-Breier has written three scholarly articles that include analysis of my poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) about women in the Bible. She discusses my poems "Leah," "Lot's Wife," and “Yiftach’s Daughter." Her article "Modernizing Leah" discusses many contemporary women writers' depiction of Leah (Women's Studies 47:5 [2018]: pp. 527-540. Koplowitz-Breier's new article will analyze different writers' views of Lot's wife (forthcoming in Literature and Theology). Her article "A Nameless Bride of Death" discusses five different women writers' portrayal of Jephthah’s daughter (Open Theology 6 [2020]: pp. 1-14. I'm thrilled that she admires my poems and analyzes them so thoroughly. Cover of Janet Ruth Heller's poetry book Exodus

Two poems forthcoming in the journal Nashim

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 26, 2020
Post category:Children's Language and Language Development Published Poetry

The journal Nashim has accepted my two poems "Family Reunions" and "Synagogue Rummage Sale" for publication in its fall 2020 issue. I'm delighted! "Family Reunions" is about my my family's close ties to my mother's twin brother's family. We celebrated all holidays together. I used to be in charge of rummage sales at my synagogue, and I write about this complex experience in "Synagogue Rummage Sale." Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry 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.