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Recently Published Poems

I have published some poems recently, so here is a summary. Best wishes for the summer to you and your families!

Editor Iliyana Stoyanova published my haiku “June Surprise” in Blithe Spirit volume 35, issue 2 (May 2025) on page 61. This journal is based in England.

Editor Bri Bruce published my haiku “Duet” in Humana Obscura #13 (Summer 2025) on page 29. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZj7J7hDVCO0t4SiC0xs3Occ6U6rj_UN/view

Editor Julie Thorndyke published my tanka “Mining” in Eucalypt #38 (2025) on page 18. This journal is based in Australia.

Editor John Bloner, Jr. reprinted my poem “Haven” in Moss Piglet‘s issue about the theme of Gardens (June 2025) on page 46. The journal is based in Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin. This poem concerns a lovely garden that used to be along the path around Elkhart Lake. The poem previously appeared in my poetry book Folk Concert: Changing Times (Cochran GA: Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) on page 48; it also appeared in my poetry book Nature’s Olympics (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021) on page 5.

My tanka “Solstice” appeared in Each in Our Own Way: Tanka Society of America 2024 Members’ Anthology edited by Michele L. Harvey (Pasadena CA: Tanka Society of America, 2025) on page 48.

Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).