Janet Ruth Heller

Wrote poetry books Nature's Olympics, Exodus, Folk Concert, & Traffic Stop; kids' books The Passover Surprise & How the Moon Regained Her Shape (about bullying)

[Janet Ruth Heller @janetheller1949]

Charlie Barshaw interviewed me about my kids’ books for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators of Michigan. See https://t.co/zNZLnigHUu Thank you to Charlie and the SCBWI-MI! #picturebook #middlegradebook #bullyingprevention #solarsystem #siblingrivalry

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december magazine published 6 of my haiku & senryu in 36.1 (Spring/Summer, 2025) on p. 88. My senryu “Exit” is in Prune Juice No. 46 (August 2025) on p. 8. https://t.co/Uil0Z8Hq86 Blithe Spirit published 2 of my haiku in 35.3 (August 2025) on p. 59. #haiku #senryu #naturepoetry

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My poem “On Using My Mother’s College Textbook” appears in Moss Piglet (August 2025), p. 31. Anima first published this poem in vol. 7, # 1 (Fall 1980), p. 18. I reprinted the poem in my book Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora, 2012), p. 23. #poetry #family #lyricpoetry

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Congrats to Taylor Townsend, now World No. 1 in doubles after advancing to the final at the 2025 Mubadala Citi DC Open! Townsend & her partner Zhang Shuai won the doubles final. I love international teams & talented moms like Taylor Townsend. #tennis #doubles #womenathletes #moms

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@PortageMagazine I sent you some poems in December 2024. I have never heard from you. Are you going to publish my work or not? I would appreciate a prompt reply. Thank you! Janet Ruth Heller

[Janet Ruth Heller @janetheller1949]

@PortageMagazine I sent you poems in December 2024. I have never heard from you. Are you going to publish my work or not? I would appreciate a prompt reply. Thank you! Janet Ruth Heller

[Janet Ruth Heller @janetheller1949]

Editor Steliana Cristina Voicu published my tanka “Fourth of July” in Enchanted Garden, vol. 12 (2025): https://t.co/nwb9BBwrW6 My poem compares fireworks to my 4-year-old niece's sparkling eyes. The editor translated my poem into Romanian! #tanka #fireworks #children #poetry

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My tanka “Solstice” appeared in Each in Our Own Way: Tanka Society of America 2024 Members’ Anthology edited by Michele L. Harvey (Pasadena CA: Tanka Society of America, 2025) on page 48.

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Editor Julie Thorndyke published my tanka “Mining” in Eucalypt #38 (2025), p. 18. Editor John Bloner, Jr. reprinted my poem “Haven” in Moss Piglet's issue about Gardens (June 2025), p. 46. The poem first appeared in my books Folk Concert: Changing Times and Nature’s Olympics.

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Editor Iliyana Stoyanova published my haiku “June Surprise” in Blithe Spirit volume 35, issue 2 (May 2025) on page 61.

Editor Bri Bruce published my haiku “Duet” in Humana Obscura #13 (Summer 2025) on page 29. https://t.co/2G892NcV7c

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My poem "Annunciation" appears in the Reformed Journal, & Poetry Editor Rose Postma interviewed me for a podcast: https://t.co/HZdUsct737 &
https://t.co/4IquTkRKjR I wrote the poem in 1972 & recently revised it. #annunciation #religiouspoetry #midrash #lyricpoetry

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My poems “Flaws,” “Jean Redpath in Concert at the Old Town School of Folk Music,” “June Brigade,” “Academia,” & “Hacked” appear in Otherwise Engaged 15 (Summer 2025): pp. 66-67, 153-55, 209, 212, 259-60. https://t.co/TWWjCzb57D #poetry #sonnet #folkmusic #academia #hacking

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My haiku poem about climate change “Hydrangeas” appeared in Presence #81 (March 2025): p. 53. Ian Storr edited this issue. Members of Scotland's Edinburgh Haiku Circle will now serve as the editors. https://t.co/HVj9orgs42
#haiku #climatechange #poetry #naturepoetry

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My article “What Is Midwestern about the Poetry of Lisel Mueller?” is in Midwestern Miscellany 53.1 (Spring 2025), pp. 1-10, published by Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. https://t.co/dSlMt695xW
#poetry #midwesternliterature #liselmueller #naturepoetry

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Author Hop at Portage District Library on Friday May 2, 2025 from 5 to 8 pm--Meet local authors of children’s books & fiction, poetry, & nonfiction for adults. Writers can discuss their work & autograph their books for you. Place: 300 Library Lane / Portage MI 49002. Refreshments

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My poems “A Woman Prophet” & “The Bond of Gratitude” are in the new anthology Covenant of Justice: Prayers, Poems, & Meditations from Women of Reform Judaism, Boston: Women of Reform Judaism and the CCAR Press, 2025, pp. 4 & 96. This collection features writing by many women.

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Editors John Han & Mason Arledge just published my haiku & a senryu “Hawthorn Petals” & “Warm Spring Day” in Fireflies’ Light #31 (April 2025): pp. 10 & 51. The link to this issue is https://t.co/7BRkNfFxaX

#haiku #senryu #cancer #spring #shortpoetry

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Ubiquity journal just published my poems “Hot Flash at Work” & “October Thunderstorm in Michigan” in vol. 11, #2 (Fall/Winter 2024): https://t.co/OjzDEaCaSn Both concern my teaching at Albion College. The thunderstorm piece is a prose-poem. #poetry #hotflash #prosepoem #workpoem

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My senryu “Quilting” is in failed haiku 9, #108 (Feb. 2025), p. 152. https://t.co/RlmxScOe38 Ann Byle interviewed me for “Inspiring Beliefs" in Grand Rapids Magazine (March/April 2025), pp. 19-21. She quotes from my book Exodus. #senryu #interview #jewishpoetry #religiouspoetry

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My article “Multiple Awakenings in Sherwood Anderson’s Story ‘An Awakening’” is in MidAmerica 51 (2024), pp. 43-53. The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature publishes MidAmerica. #genderroles #insight #power #traditionalnorms #psychologicalissues #grotesque #Repression