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Three Short Poems Published in February 2024

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 28, 2024
Post category:birdwatching Creative Writing gardening Haiku Poetry Published Poetry Senryu tanka

Three of my short poems got published in February 2024. My haiku poem “Owl” appeared in Time Haiku #59. The editor is Diana Webb, and this literary journal is based in England. My haiku/senryu poem "Zucchini” appeared in Haiku Canada Review. The Publications Editor is Mike Montreuil. My tanka “Empty Nest” just got published in Laurels #1. The Tanka Society of America produces this journal. The Guest Editor for this first issue is Richard L. Matta. The link is https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/laurels/laurels-1 #haiku #senryu #poetry #tanka #garden #humor #birdwatching Janet Ruth Heller reading her poems at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

Interview with Wisconsin Public Radio about Janet Ruth Heller’s new poetry book Nature’s Olympics

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 21, 2022
Post category:Books Creative Writing Haiku Interviews Nature Poetry Published Poetry

On February 14, 2022, Wisconsin Public Radio's Central Time program interviewed me about my new poetry book about the natural world, Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021). The link to this interview is https://www.wpr.org/poems-inspired-midwest-pandemic-and-natural-world . #nature #poetry #midwest #naturepoetry #seasons #haiku #tanka #freeverse #interview Cover for Janet Ruth Heller's poetry book Nature's Olympics; 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.