Editor Melissa F. Kaelin, who serves as Communication Manager at Michigan State University, has published my elegy poem "Honoring Dad" for her anthology entitled the Social Gap Experiment. The book is available from Amazon and was published in December, 2020. I wrote this poem in 2005 and am happy that it has found a good home. Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Diane Joy Schmidt
Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011) contains some of Heller’s best poems written from the 1970s to 2009. Themes include being an assertive nontraditional woman, having close relationships, teaching college English and women’s studies, loving nature, traveling, being involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, mourning her father’s death, experiencing folk music at different stages of her life, and being an artist/entertainer/writer. (more…)