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Janet Ruth Heller will read a poem about the Ladies Library at the Artifactory Poetry Reading and Kalamazoo Area History Event on Sunday February 28, 2016

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 1, 2016
Post category:Janet's Speaking Events Literature Poetry Poetry Reading

Sunday, February 28, 2016 from 1:30 to 3 p.m.--Artifactory: Poems about Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo History at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum--Local writers will read poems about items in the Kalamazoo Valley Museum collections, the Kalamazoo area, and regional history. Kalamazoo Valley Museum curator Tom Dietz will comment on the poems, give details about Kalamazoo history, and show slides of relevant artifacts. Attendees will receive a free booklet of the poems. Writers reading their work include Linda Cook MacDonald, Mac McCurkan, Jill Doster Marcusse, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Melanie Dunbar, Janet Ruth Heller, Robert Ed Post, Laura Stahlhut, Caroline Wolf, Arianna Forsman, Wren Ashley, Erin Isola, Brianna Price, Kaitlyn Barnes, Alexandra Katsma, Molly Long, Gabby Katsma, Eriq Eichinger, and Alex Perez. Themes of the poems are the Egyptian mummy, the turbulent sea exhibit, Lincoln’s desk, Zoe-Phora, justice, and armor. Artifactory will take place in the Mary Jane Stryker Theater of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum at 230 N. Rose St. in Kalamazoo, Michigan 49003. This event is co-sponsored by Friends of Poetry, and this reading is free and open to…

Two Poems by Janet Ruth Heller Published by The Atrium

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 21, 2016
Post category:Literature Poetry

Dear Friends:

The Atrium, a literary and scholarly journal, has just published two of my poems in its spring 2016 issue online. The poems are “The Director” and “Match Point, or On Submitting a Manuscript.” “The Director” is about my former high school English teacher, who is one of the best mentors and play directors on the planet. “Match Point” uses a tennis metaphor to convey what writers experience when they submit manuscripts to editors. (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.