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They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers, & Others in Haiku

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 29, 2017
Post category:Books Coping with Deaths in a Family Literature

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers, & Others in Haiku is a new anthology of poems in English about parents. The editor is Robert Epstein, and the publisher is Middle Island Press of West Union, West Virginia. They Gave Us Life includes three poems by Janet Ruth Heller: “Dad’s Yahrzeit,” “Bald Eagle,” and “Bird Bingo.” The first two poems are haiku about my father, and the third poem is a double tanka about my mother. They Gave Us Life is available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/They-Gave-Us-Life-Celebrating/dp/0998073296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509294891&sr=8-1&keywords=epstein+they+gave+us+life

Grammar Guru post about “Agreement of Subjects and Verbs”

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:July 29, 2017
Post category:Advice for Writers Editing Manuscripts Fiction Grammar Language Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

I’m a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, which has a strong Michigan chapter. Our state newsletter is called The Mitten because that is the shape of Michigan. I told the editor, Kristin Bartley Lenz, that I would write a “Grammar Guru” column for the Mitten blog. I will address common grammatical errors and questions that I frequently encountered during my 35 years as a college English professor. Here is my first Grammar Guru post about "Agreement of Subjects and Verbs": https://scbwimithemitten.blogspot.com/2017/07/grammar-guru-janet-ruth-heller.html

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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.