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Three Articles Analyze Exodus Poems by Janet Ruth Heller

Prof. Anat Koplowitz-Breier has written three scholarly articles that include analysis of my poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) about women in the Bible. She discusses my poems “Leah,” “Lot’s Wife,” and “Yiftach’s Daughter.”

Her article “Modernizing Leah” discusses many contemporary women writers’ depiction of Leah (Women’s Studies 47:5 [2018]: pp. 527-540. Koplowitz-Breier’s new article will analyze different writers’ views of Lot’s wife (forthcoming in Literature and Theology). Her article “A Nameless Bride of Death” discusses five different women writers’ portrayal of Jephthah’s daughter (Open Theology 6 [2020]: pp. 1-14. I’m thrilled that she admires my poems and analyzes them so thoroughly.

Cover of Janet Ruth Heller’s poetry book Exodus

Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).