Janet Ruth Heller – Page 5 – Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic

Author Hop at the Portage District Library on Friday May 2, 2025 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 2, 2025
Post category:Book Fairs Books Janet's Speaking Events Literature

Come to the Portage District Library to meet local authors of children’s books and fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for adults. The writers can discuss their work and autograph their books for you. Authors include Andrew Mozina, Janet Ruth Heller, Hedy Habra, Elizabeth Rae Bullmer, Mark Love, Buffy Silverman, Christopher Tallon, Margaret DeRitter, Elaine M. Seaman, Marcel Fable Price, Kim Powers, Anne Stone, Maria Dong, Julia Richardson, Sharon Ustishen Bippus, Alex Ebenstein, Martin L. Shoemaker, and Nadia Famiano. The Portage District Library’s address is 300 Library Lane / Portage MI 49002 Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, please phone (269) 329-4544 or consult the website https://portage.libnet.info/events? Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Darrin Goodman

Poems in the anthology Covenant of Justice

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:April 28, 2025
Post category:Anthology Collections Creative Writing Jewish Poetry Lyric Poetry Multicultural Literature Poetry Psychological Issues Published Poetry

My poems “A Woman Prophet” and “The Bond of Gratitude” just appeared in the anthology Covenant of Justice: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations from Women of Reform Judaism, Boston: Women of Reform Judaism and the CCAR Press, 2025 on pages 4 and 96. This collection features writing by many women. The book is unusual in not putting authors' names next to their poems and not including any biographical statements or even listing authors' websites. While I like the idea of a collective women's anthology, I also believe that writers' individual voices are important too. Edit Image 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.