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Raffle for Free Copies of My Chapter Book The Passover Surprise

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 22, 2015
Post category:Book Raffle Books Fiction Jewish Families Jewish Traditions Literature Parenting Sibling Rivalry

Lu Ann Worley has a raffle on her website below to give away copies of my new middle-grade chapter book The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015). I encourage you to enter her raffle. Happy 2016! Janet http://www.rockinbookreviews.com/2015/12/20/10425/

Interview with Erin Fanning about Poetry, My Influences, and My Writing

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 24, 2015
Post category:Fiction Humanities Interviews Literature Poetry

Dear Friends,

In honor of National Poetry Day, Erin Fanning recently posted my interview with her about poetry, my influences, and my writing. You can find the interview at this link: http://wp.me/p1lmEO-tw (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.