My poem “Songs for Two Dancers” appears in the Macramé Literary Journal (Fall 2024): https://macramelit.com/articles/songs-for-two-dancers/ I wrote this piece in 1973 and revised it in 2024. The poem describes a program of modern dance that I attended when I was in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. #moderndance #poetry #lyricpoetry Photo of Janet Ruth Heller taken by Diane Joy Schmidt
I published one haiku in May. My haiku “Clouds and Ribs,” which is about a sunset, appeared in Blithe Spirit 34.2 (May 2024) on page 29. Blithe Spirit is the journal of the British Haiku Society, and Iliyana Stoyanova, who is great to work with, edits the publication. I wrote "Clouds and Ribs" decades ago and revised the poem. I was pleased to finally see it in print. I advise other writers never to give up: keep revising and sending out work until you find an editor who accepts your prose or poetry. One of my poems that I wrote in 1978 got published in 2018--that is forty years of sending it out and getting rejection notes. #haiku #poetry #revision Janet Ruth Heller speaking at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra