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Author Hop at Kazoo Books in Kalamazoo MI on Saturday, December 9, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 14, 2017
Post category:Autographing Books Children's Literature Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Literature Multicultural Literature Poetry

Kazoo Books is hosting its annual Author Hop for Michigan writers. Local writers and illustrators attending this event and autographing their books for children and adults include Janet Ruth Heller, Buffy Silverman, Leslie Helakoski, Monica Harris, Kathy Higgs-Coulthard, Kim Childress, Danica Davidson, Jeff Connor, Shelley Johannes, Judi Rypma, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Joe Heywood, Andy Mozina, and Grace Tiffany. Refreshments will be served. Kazoo Books is located at 2413 Parkview Ave. in Kalamazoo MI 49008. Kazoo Books’ website is www.kazoobooks.com/ and the phone number is (269) 553-6506. Please join us for the fun!

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers, & Others in Haiku

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 29, 2017
Post category:Books Coping with Deaths in a Family Literature

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers, & Others in Haiku is a new anthology of poems in English about parents. The editor is Robert Epstein, and the publisher is Middle Island Press of West Union, West Virginia. They Gave Us Life includes three poems by Janet Ruth Heller: “Dad’s Yahrzeit,” “Bald Eagle,” and “Bird Bingo.” The first two poems are haiku about my father, and the third poem is a double tanka about my mother. They Gave Us Life is available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/They-Gave-Us-Life-Celebrating/dp/0998073296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509294891&sr=8-1&keywords=epstein+they+gave+us+life

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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.