revision – Janet Ruth Heller

Haiku Poem published by Blithe Spirit

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 25, 2024
Post category:Advice for Writers Haiku Literary Magazines Nature Poetry Published Poetry Short Poetry

I published one haiku in May. My haiku “Clouds and Ribs,” which is about a sunset, appeared in Blithe Spirit 34.2 (May 2024) on page 29. Blithe Spirit is the journal of the British Haiku Society, and Iliyana Stoyanova, who is great to work with, edits the publication. I wrote "Clouds and Ribs" decades ago and revised the poem. I was pleased to finally see it in print. I advise other writers never to give up: keep revising and sending out work until you find an editor who accepts your prose or poetry. One of my poems that I wrote in 1978 got published in 2018--that is forty years of sending it out and getting rejection notes. #haiku #poetry #revision Janet Ruth Heller speaking at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

“Cottonwood Seeds” published in Ribbons

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:July 26, 2023
Post category:Poetry Published Poetry Short Poetry tanka

My tanka poem “Cottonwood Seeds” recently appeared in Ribbons 19.2 (Spring/Summer 2023) on page 42. The Tanka Society of America publishes Ribbons, and the editor is Susan Weaver. Tanka resemble haiku, but tanka are five lines long, so this format gives writers more space to develop ideas. I recently revised this poem. #tanka #lyricpoetry #shortpoems #revision Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry at the Kalamazoo Public Library

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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.