mental health – Janet Ruth Heller

Article about Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio published in MidAmerica

Author: Janet Ruth Heller January 28, 2025

My article “Multiple Awakenings in Sherwood Anderson’s Story ‘An Awakening’” just appeared in MidAmerica, volume 51 (2024) on pages 43-53. I used to teach this story from the book Winesburg, Ohio to my undergraduate English composition and literature students at…
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Criticism, empathy, Fiction, Literature, Love, mental health, Psychological Issues, scholarly articles

gender roles, Grotesque characters, insight, power in society, Psychological Issues, repression, traditional norms

Moonbathing published my tanka poem “Your Angry Words”

Author: Janet Ruth Heller June 21, 2023

My tanka poem “Your Angry Words” appears in Moonbathing, issue 28 (Spring/Summer 2023), page 8. The editor of this journal is Pamela A. Babusci. I wrote this poem about twenty years ago and am happy to have found such a…
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Literary Magazines, Literature, mental health, Nature, Poetry, Published Poetry, tanka

anger, literary journals, literature, poetry, tanka

Poems Published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes and failed haiku

Author: Janet Ruth Heller October 20, 2022

Guest Editor Hemapriya Chellappan just published my senryu “Walnuts” in failed haiku 82 (October 2022): https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/failedhaikuissue82.pdf Also, Editors Bex O’Brian and Rebecca Johnson published my poems “Suicide in March” and “Jana Pleads with the Moon” in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes with…
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Creative Writing, Heaven's Gate Cult, Literary Magazines, Literature, Love, mental health, Poetry, Psychological Issues, Published Poetry, Senryu, Suicide

Heaven's Gate Cult, Literary Magazines, love, poetry, senryu, suicide