Literature – Page 3 – Janet Ruth Heller

Tanka Poem about Cedar Waxwings

Author: Janet Ruth Heller December 10, 2023

My tanka poem “Cedar Waxwings” appeared in the Australian journal Eucalypt #35 (December 2023) on page 26. The editor is Julie Thorndyke. Eucalypt publishes tanka (five-lined poems similar to haiku) written by authors from all over the world, including India,…
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SORMAG Online Book Festival on December 1 through December 3 of 2023

Author: Janet Ruth Heller December 10, 2023

Janet Ruth Heller spoke at the SORMAG Online Book Festival on December 1 through December 3, 2023. On December 1, she participated in a panel discussion of authors of books for children. The topic was “Ask Us Anything about Children’s/Middle-Grade/Young…
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Poem about Pamela Brown Thomas of Michigan’s Underground Railroad

Author: Janet Ruth Heller September 28, 2023

Panoply literary magazine recently published my poem “Pamela Brown Thomas” in its issue 25 of September 8, 2023. My poem concerns a real woman in the 1800s who helped the Underground Railroad in Schoolcraft, Michigan, and hid African Americans trying…
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