birdwatching – Janet Ruth Heller

Three Short Poems Published in February 2024

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 28, 2024
Post category:birdwatching Creative Writing gardening Haiku Poetry Published Poetry Senryu tanka

Three of my short poems got published in February 2024. My haiku poem “Owl” appeared in Time Haiku #59. The editor is Diana Webb, and this literary journal is based in England. My haiku/senryu poem "Zucchini” appeared in Haiku Canada Review. The Publications Editor is Mike Montreuil. My tanka “Empty Nest” just got published in Laurels #1. The Tanka Society of America produces this journal. The Guest Editor for this first issue is Richard L. Matta. The link is https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/laurels/laurels-1 #haiku #senryu #poetry #tanka #garden #humor #birdwatching Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

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

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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.