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Janet Ruth Heller Reads Her Poetry at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum on Sunday, February 22, 2015

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Sunday, February 22, 2015 from 1:30 to 3 p.m.—Janet Ruth Heller will participate in Artifactory: Poems about Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo History at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. This is a free event. Kalamazoo-area writers will read poems about items in the Kalamazoo Valley Museum collections, the Kalamazoo area, and local history. Kalamazoo Valley Museum curator Tom Dietz will comment on the poems, give details about Kalamazoo history, and show slides of relevant artifacts. Attendees will receive a free booklet of the poems. Artifactory will take place in the Mary Jane Stryker Theater of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum at 230 N. Rose St. in Kalamazoo, Michigan 49003. This event is co-sponsored by Friends of Poetry, and this reading is free and open to the public.

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.

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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.