women’s issues – Janet Ruth Heller

Discussion of Multicultural Literature for Children & Young Adults at International Literacy Conference in Boston on July 10, 2016 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 14, 2016
Post category:Books Conference Presentations Discrimination Fiction Historical Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Jewish Families Jewish Traditions Literature Multicultural Literature Psychological Issues Sibling Rivalry

On Sunday, July 10, 2016 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Room 209 of the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, Janet Ruth Heller will be speaking on a panel at the International Literacy Association Conference about Recent Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults. The title of her presentation is “Recent Multicultural Books for Children about Jews and People of Color.” For more information, please see the website http://www.literacyworldwide.org/conference Janet’s website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/

Janet Ruth Heller Reads Poetry about Families and Discusses Her Book The Passover Surprise at the Writing the Midwest Conference on June 2, 2016

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 14, 2016
Post category:Autographing Books Conference Presentations Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Jewish Families Jewish Traditions Literature Multicultural Literature Poetry Poetry Reading

On Thursday, June 2, 2016, Janet Heller will be reading her poetry about families, discussing her children’s book The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015), and autographing her books at Writing the Midwest, the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, in the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center at Michigan State University, 219 S. Harrison Rd. in East Lansing, MI 48823. (more…)

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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.