Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Saturday, October 25, 2014—Janet Heller will read “Poems from Exodus and Nature’s Olympics” from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. She will also autograph her three poetry books and How the Moon Regained Her Shape, her award-winning children’s book about bullying…
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I write many poems, some about children. Important writers like Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane Yolen have published excellent books of poetry for young people. However, I find that poems about kids are now very hard to publish. Why is this so difficult?…
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As a published writer of poetry and fiction and a college professor who has taught literature, creative writing, linguistics, and women’s studies at eight different colleges and universities, I am distressed that some people now denigrate the study of humanities…
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