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Best College Towns for Retirement

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 16, 2023
Post category:College Towns retirement

Emily Brandon and Rachel Hartman included my comments about Ann Arbor, Michigan in their article “10 Best College Towns for Retirement,” published in U.S. News & World Report on March 31, 2023. The link is https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/baby-boomers/slideshows/the-best-college-towns-for-retirement #retirement #collegetown #music #classes #events

Tanka poem “College Reunion” published in Ribbons

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 29, 2023
Post category:Literary Magazines Music tanka

The Winter 2023 issue of Ribbons 19.1 has my tanka poem, “College Reunion” on page 22. Tanka Hangout editor Ken Slaughter chose my poem for his column about tanka on the theme of music. Susan Weaver edits Ribbons, which is the journal of the Tanka Society of America. #tanka #music #literaryjournal #Ribbons Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Diane Joy Schmidt

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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.