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Fun Book Signing at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids on December 10, 2016

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 13, 2016
Post category:Autographing Books Children's Literature Literature Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

I had a great time at my book signing at Schuler Books in Grand Rapids. Dawne Webber of the Michigan chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators organized this event. I enjoyed meeting the other two authors who shared this signing with me, PJ Lyons and Erica M. Chapman. Erica has a brand-new young adult novel, and PJ writes books based on Bible stories for young children. I think that we three made a good team, and all of us sold books. (more…)

Janet Read Her Poetry and Autographed Her Books at the Kalamazoo Public Library on December 5, 2014

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 6, 2014
Post category:Books Janet's Speaking Events Literature Poetry Reading

I had a great time reading my poetry and signing my books at the Kalamazoo Public Library on December 5, 2014. I was part of a book fair and poetry reading organized by Friends of Poetry during Art Hop events in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Art Hop is the first Friday of every month, and many organizations sponsor art shows, literary readings, musical performances, etc. (more…)

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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.