love – Janet Ruth Heller

Poems Published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes and failed haiku

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 20, 2022
Post category:Creative Writing Heaven's Gate Cult Literary Magazines Literature Love mental health Poetry Psychological Issues Published Poetry Senryu Suicide

Guest Editor Hemapriya Chellappan just published my senryu “Walnuts” in failed haiku 82 (October 2022): https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/failedhaikuissue82.pdf Also, Editors Bex O’Brian and Rebecca Johnson published my poems “Suicide in March” and “Jana Pleads with the Moon” in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes with the theme of “On Cracking” (October 2022): https://www.dorothyparkersashes.com/on-cracking-up/heavens-gate #poems #senryu #suicide #HeavensGateCult #unrequitedlove #literaryjournals #literarymagazines Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

A Good Story about Frustrated Love

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:August 8, 2014
Post category:Movies and Videos

Last Sunday, I watched PBS’s The Song of Lunch on Masterpiece Theatre. This drama focuses on a reunion of two former lovers, who meet for lunch in an Italian restaurant fifteen years after their affair has ended. Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson play the two central un-named characters. This drama is based on Christopher Reid’s narrative poem. Rickman’s sonorous voice captures the poetic inner monologue and the frustration of the central character, a middle-aged man who resembles T. S. Eliot’s Prufrock in his inability to achieve what he wants. (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.