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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

Tanka Poem published in the art of tanka journal

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 28, 2023
Post category:Poetry Short Poetry tanka

My tanka poem “Phone Call II” appeared in the art of tanka #1 (fall/winter 2023) on page 10. The editor is Pamela A. Babusci. I wrote this poem in the 1990s and recently revised it as a tanka. A tanka is like a haiku poem, except that tanka are five lines long, so a writer can develop ideas more fully. The poem describes the comfort that a phone conversation can sometimes bring. #tanka #poetry #comfort Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems 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.