haikujournal – Janet Ruth Heller

Tanka and Haiku Poems Published in Ribbons and Presence

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 22, 2021
Post category:Books

My tanka poem "Your Hands" appears in the journal Ribbons in the winter 2022 issue. The editor is Susan Weaver, and the journal is based in Allentown PA. Also, my haiku poem "Yom Kippur" just got published in the March 2022 issue #72 of Presence. This journal is based in England, and the editor is Ian Storr. Links to their websites are below. #haiku#tanka#journals#poetry https://haikupresence.org/ http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/ribbons Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Diane Joy Schmidt

Forthcoming Haiku in Frameless Sky

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 24, 2021
Post category:Creative Writing Discrimination Haiku Literature Memoir Poetry Published Poetry

The online haiku, tanka, and cherita journal Frameless Sky has accepted my haiku poem "In the Salon" for a special issue on the theme of Harmony. The editor is Christine L. Villa. The website for Frameless Sky is https://lnkd.in/gW2ueWZ #haiku#haikujournal#poetry#haiga Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry at the Kalamazoo Public Library.

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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.