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InTouch Rugby includes Books by Janet Ruth Heller in Summer Essentials

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:July 16, 2018
Post category:Books Children's Literature Listings in Encyclopedias and Other Platforms Literature Picture Book Poetry

InTouch Rugby has included several books for adults and children by Janet Ruth Heller in its list of "Summer Essentials" at https://www.intouchrugby.com/magazine/summer-essentials-part-1/

The Manhattanville Review just published a poem about sexual harassment by Janet Ruth Heller

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 7, 2018
Post category:Poetry Published Poetry Sexual Harassment

On May 6, 2018, The Manhattanville Review published my poem “To a Man on the Greyhound Bus,” which I wrote in 1978. I had been sending it out to editors for four decades. The poem concerns sexual harassment. Because many people have trouble dealing with this issue, it took forty years for me to find editors who understand the importance of the subject.

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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.