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My poem “The Ladies’ Library in Kalamazoo” is in the March 2018 issue of Encore magazine

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 27, 2018
Post category:Ladies' Library in Kalamazoo Poetry Published Poetry

My poem "The Ladies' Library in Kalamazoo" is in the March 2018 issue of Encore magazine. Next to the poem is a photo of the Aurora Leigh stained glass window in the Ladies' Library (built from 1878 to 1879). My poem focuses a lot on that window and the feminist epic poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning published in 1856 that the window celebrates. I am now the President of the Ladies' Library Association.

Poem about Airport Security Accepted for Publication by Earth’s Daughters

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 16, 2018
Post category:Airport Security Poetry Published Poetry Travel

The editors of the literary journal Earth's Daughters have accepted my poem "Detention at Detroit Metro Airport" for publication in issue #91 with the theme of "Lines." It concerns my getting into trouble for having a small sewing scissors in my purse in 2001.

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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.