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Poems Published in Cold Moon Journal and cattails

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 20, 2022
Post category:Books Creative Writing Haiku Literary Magazines Literature Nature Poetry Published Poetry Senryu

On November 20, 2022, Cold Moon Journal published my haiku poem “Patchwork Quilt” at https://coldmoonjournal.blogspot.com/ The editor is Roberta Beach Jacobson. Also, cattails published my senryu poem "Mammogram" at http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails222.pdf on page 53. The senryu editor is David J. Kelly of Ireland. Senryu are like haiku in form, but senryu focus on people, while haiku focus on nature. #haiku#senryu#poetry#literaryjournal#onlinejournal Maple Leaves in Autumn; photo from Pinterest

Poems Published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes and failed haiku

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:October 20, 2022
Post category:Creative Writing Heaven's Gate Cult Literary Magazines Literature Love mental health Poetry Psychological Issues Published Poetry Senryu Suicide

Guest Editor Hemapriya Chellappan just published my senryu “Walnuts” in failed haiku 82 (October 2022): https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/failedhaikuissue82.pdf Also, Editors Bex O’Brian and Rebecca Johnson published my poems “Suicide in March” and “Jana Pleads with the Moon” in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes with the theme of “On Cracking” (October 2022): https://www.dorothyparkersashes.com/on-cracking-up/heavens-gate #poems #senryu #suicide #HeavensGateCult #unrequitedlove #literaryjournals #literarymagazines Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry 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.