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Haiku/Senryu Poem “Birthday Visitors” Published in failed haiku

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 13, 2024
Post category:Haiku Literary Magazines Nature Poetry Senryu

My haiku/senryu poem “Birthday Visitors” recently appeared in failed haiku 8, #96 (December 2023). The editor is Bryan Rickert. Here is the link to my poem: https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/failedhaikuissue96.pdf #haiku #raccoons #birthdaypoem #senryu

Frameless Sky issue on the theme of family

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:July 12, 2023
Post category:Family Literary Magazines Poetry Psychological Issues Published Poetry Senryu

Frameless Sky 18 published my senryu poem "Black Sheep" online in late June, 2023. This is a special issue on the theme of family. The guest editor is Vandana Parashar. Senryu differ from haiku because senryu poems are about people, while haiku poems focus on nature. But both types of poems have the same structure. #family #poetry #literaryjournal #senryu Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

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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.