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Interview in The Table Read about Nature’s Olympics

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 31, 2022
Post category:Autobiography Books Creative Writing Haiku Humanities Interviews Literature Nature Poetry Published Poetry Publishing Manuscripts

The Table Read, which is based in the United Kingdom, interviewed me about my new book of nature poems, Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021). The Table Read editor is JJ Barnes. Here is the link for this interview: https://thetableread.co.uk/poet-interview-janet-ruth-heller-natures-olympics/ #poetry #naturepoetry #writingprocess #interview Cover of Nature's Olympics by Janet Ruth Heller; artwork by Lori McElrath-Eslick

Workshop about “Writing & Revising Religious Poetry and Prose” for the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College on Friday, April 13, 2018 at 8:30 a.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:April 6, 2018
Post category:Advice for Writers Conference Presentations Critique Editing Manuscripts Publishing Manuscripts Writing Workshop

On Friday, April 13, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Janet Ruth Heller and Miriam Bat-Ami will do a workshop about “Writing and Revising Religious Poetry and Prose” for the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in the Prince Conference Center at 1800 E Beltline Ave SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49546. This workshop will occur in the Hickory Room. (more…)

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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.