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Janet Heller Reads from her poetry books Exodus and Folk Concert: Changing Times at the Kalamazoo Public Library on December 5, 2014

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Friday, December 5, 2014--6 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Janet Heller will read from her poetry books Exodus and Folk Concert: Changing Times at the Kalamazoo Public Library as part of a Friends of Poetry event. She will also autograph all of her books. Location: 315 S Rose St., Kalamazoo MI 49007. This reading is part of Art Hop events in downtown Kalamazoo.

Poetry Reading at the Michigan College English Association’s Conference at Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, October 25, 2014

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Post published:October 21, 2014
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Saturday, October 25, 2014—Janet Heller will read “Poems from Exodus and Nature’s Olympics” from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. She will also autograph her three poetry books and How the Moon Regained Her Shape, her award-winning children’s book about bullying (Arbordale, 2006) at the Michigan College English Association Conference. Heller is the President of the Michigan College English Association. Place: Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center at 900 Oakwood St., Ypsilanti, MI 48197.

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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.