spring – Janet Ruth Heller

Fireflies’ Light journal just published my haiku and senryu

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:April 13, 2025
Post category:Creative Writing Haiku Literary Magazines Lyric Poetry Nature Poetry Published Poetry Senryu Short Poetry

Editors John Han and Mason Arledge just published a haiku and a senryu that I wrote, “Hawthorn Petals” and “Warm Spring Day,” in Fireflies’ Light #31 (April 2025): pages 10 and 51. These are my first poems in this journal. The link to this issue is https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/fireflies-light/ #haiku #senryu #cancer #spring #shortpoetry Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Darrin Goodman

The Table Read reprinted my poem “Spring, 2020” from my new book Nature’s Olympics

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 3, 2022
Post category:Books

The Table Read just reprinted my poem “Spring, 2020” from my new poetry book Nature’s Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021). The editor of The Table Read is JJ Barnes of Stafford, England. The link to this poem is https://thetableread.co.uk/spring-2020-poem-by-janet-ruth-heller/ #poetry #spring2020 #flowers #fruittrees #unrest #pandemic Cover of Janet Ruth Heller's book of nature poetry, Nature's Olympics; cover artwork by Lori McElrath Eslick

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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.