The journal Bear Creek Haiku has published four of my haiku in its August 2020 issue. The editor is Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, assisted by people and two cats. I have been revising many of my haiku to shorten them, and I'm pleased that these four have 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…)